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Pt. 8
Scarred for life “Ow be careful it hurts.” I said. “Well who’s fault is it that you got into a fight!” He snapped back. “The teacher made me and I...
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Poker Face
To the outside world they seem like the idyllic couple, but after twelve years of marriage the race to outsmart one another turns sour. Who's fooling who?
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By Design
They who were hooked on skin, those willing souls awakening a challenge regardless of pain, upon a dare reaching for greater ideas where art slumbers...
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Distraction
Distraction She traces her fingertips Across the bronzed, accentuated curves Of her neighbour’s face. As the minutes click, time slips, She loses...
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Grace and Style Under Pressure
I watched a young female golfer on Sunday, named Lexie Thompson. She showed the world what grace under pressure and resilience of spirit are all...
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Mysteries and Secrets
Not about flowers or butterflies, move along...
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Between the lines Chapter 12
Singbonga, the Sun God had made its appearance and banished the moon into exile. The earth was pure again, and the woods were sprayed with 'mahua'...
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‘Where is your home?’
Together, they entered a home – dementia for him had now come. She needn’t have gone, but she knew …
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The Blue Room
HIGH ABOVE THE BASS LINE; THE BLACK BLOCKS OF SILHOUETTED HOUSES AND STREETS in the b- lue room of the Night; a sil- ver Saxo- phone moon MOANS while...
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Wish you were here
Wish you were here Cottage by the sea an old farm house converted. Stone, little plants growing, peeking out between the cracks. Quiet... The only...
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Once Upon a Time
Once Upon a Time And they lived happily ever after. Well that ceased to be true once the bickering started. When the make-up sex led to an unwanted...
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Mother Of Language
Mother of language Speak for those who are unable to comprehend . Mother of language For those who cannot understand bring them a friend . Mother of...
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Laundry Night
“There are no nudes here,” he said. “This is not a nudist bar.” I would like to have been reassured by this, but there were frankly far too many...
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All The Worlds Quarry
There once was a poor robber named Brixham who, seeing an old house in the woods, thought to rob it and, inside one of its rooms, he saw a large...
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The Abandoned
The Abandoned by Paul McCann . Unkempt . Unplaced . Unknown . Untraced . Unsure . Unclean . Unheard . Unseen . Unwanted . Unloved . All of the above .
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The Turning Wheel Of Life
The Turning Wheel Of Life by Paul McCann . Don't cry for your children , cry for yourself as they could not be here . You gave them your best years...
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Authority, Goodness & Resurrection
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series ] Not ‘just another man deceiving for a span’, for, just as he before foretold, death did not keep its hold. They’d seen his goodness pure, and miracles galore …
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The scent of them
I miss the smell of families – Funky, loud, unabashedly visceral. Granddad’s chest hair was wiry; sourly Vinegary, reeked like baked conkers. Nana’s...
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Grimms51
Bruno is hanging about waiting for Tony when he comes out of the office. ‘An ambulance came and took Hunter away,’ he explains. ‘Hunter swears he’s...
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The Once and Future God
The only man on board who more or less believed in God even in calm weather was the only one well enough to walk on deck during the storm. The rest...
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