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Cherry

They Seem To Be Alive (re-write)

Beasts of burden stand patient murmering from internal functions. Body heat warming passing admirers. ‘Of course they’re alive,’ engineers and...
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Cherry

Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Christmas (ii)

In spite of her cold, mum had rallied over Christmas and had been much more her old self. The warnings were never far away, though... The rest of...
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Cherry

Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Christmas (i)

Another excerpt from my book about my time as mum's full-time carer during her last months of life. She confounded medical expectations by not only...
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7220 Seconds

Two hours and twenty seconds. Tick-tock, the clock goes, waiting for the body to shake, to convulse, to rise.
Cherry

Christmas Pan-to

At Christmas, I like to take the opportunity to deviate, temporarily, from whatever saga Josiah and Archibald are currently involved in, and try a little seasonal nonsense. This is the first for 2024, there may well be others!
Cherry

Santa Baby (Dead Reckoning series - Part 39)

In which Archibald is constructive, mostly, and Samantha makes plans.
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Gold cherry
Story of the week

what comes after Christmas.

Carl sucked on his teeth but didn’t say anything when the camper van parked in their street. The neighbours would squabble about it soon enough...
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Cuckoo Song

The island she stands on Is sinking day by day, So she sings a cuckoo song To pass her time away under dark skies. She’s waiting for the sun In her...