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Ghigau 20
Lenny sat at the end of Lydia’s bed, feeling despondent, powerless and angry. Lydia was crying; silent tears left glistening tracks on her face. He...
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The Vexation of Nikolai
My visitor seemed unable to contain his annoyance.
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R&D 6
Smoke clings to Abraham as his fingertips trail over the uneven stone wall of the old bakery. The coppery smell of blood rather than bread makes his...
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The Day, Every Day
She woke up, letting her eyes become accustomed to the half-light, accustomed to the ordinary, to her life, to her half-life. The curtains, with...
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FRQNTZ EXCLUSIVE: Interview with Mark Feld - 40 Years After Live Aid
The Man Who Didn’t Die
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Coffee Shop Fade Out
Coffee Shop Fade Out I’m seeing this all, saturated in the stain of winter. It’ll be someday soon. Maybe after Twelfth Night. I will be with her in...
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My Dinosaur Era Chapter 46
petula approaches the door patrycja stands to one side I can almost imagine her having a gun petula reaches to ring the bell wait, why aren’t you...
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A Hare's Breath 2 - The Bicycle
The thoughts of a wee boy in a wee town in the North of Ireland in the late 1960s and his love for a white Morris 1000 van and hares and bicycles.
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Awake
Awake I had the strangest dream I dreamt I was sat across the table from two men Who described themselves as anti woke I asked them what is woke ?...
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Wargames
Whirlwind. Loren and Crait took a moment to pause. Lore and The New Hologram found them in familiar environs. “It’s been about an hour since their...
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GOODBYE, SOUL BROTHER 1 Continued
1.20. and in near silent Fusaichi every vibration of a cicada, every tremble of a dancing leaf, every lef and every rye and every hada in between...
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Variable
When the hysterics home in me: it is uncanny, a new sort of normal. He says he loves how my kitty eyes turn lynx cat when I lose it. He makes me feel...
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R&D 5
They stood waiting. The first gulls met the day with their ragged crying over the tenement rooftops, the boards on the pier slick underfoot. Fog...
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Writing with a cigarette.
He is a man standing alone in front of the whole world dressed only in his words and the ash from a thousand cigarettes, judged by seas and mountains...
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My Dinosaur Era Chapter 45
we left ginny in the pub with patrycja she definitely did wake up, arms and legs everywhere pints dribbling from her chin sat next to her, had the...
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“Blessed are the peacemakers …”
Brothers, neighbours, nearby nations: misjudgements, misunderstandings ancient grievances hatred set in stone, each others’ characters unknown, – and...
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Finding the Give in Bernard Manning
She deduced he was the comic because he was in want of a smile. He also wanted the corner table dead on ten to. He wanted a pitcher of Theakstons and...
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The Slope Between Us
We knew it from the start - not with words, but with that quiet intuition that slips beneath the ribs when two people recognise a beauty they cannot...
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Run OF The Arrow
Suddenly, a glimmer of hope caught Quinn's eye. Ahead, the endless plain gave way to a shallow, rocky rise. Not a mountain, not even a hill, but a...
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Inquisitoriam
Shaking. Loren was still holding the Faochite corpse, quaking in fear, anger, sorrow, confusion. The police did their best to keep the crowds back...
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