Certificate PG

Parental guidance suggested for children

Deep Time

Deep Time Scene: A rocky, wind-swept coastline in Scotland, Siccar Point. The year is 1788. JAMES HUTTON, a man in his 60s, rugged from years of...
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Ephemeral Eden

A tree grows tall, its leaves adorned, With berries and fruits and treats of splendour, Not too strong nor sour nor sweet, But coexisting with each...
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Conversation with a Snail - A Short Story about Snails and Death

"I've been waiting for you." He sank into his chair. It was an old armchair, creaky and musty, splitting at the seams and groaning loudly under the...
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Drilling for Oil

Let me tell you tales of yore. There'll be thrilling stories of law and gore. A huge demand for more and more. Minds traveling to a distant shore. Or...
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There's A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis (Dead Reckoning series - Part 30)

In which D.S. Stone muses about the identity of their mystery man in the reservoir, D.I. Wood pines for the Caribbean, Archibald longs for an unhealthy lunch and Josiah may come to regret his!
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Story of the week

Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Mother's Day

Another extract from the final draft (still in progress) of my memoir of my time as my mother's full-time carer at the end of her life. So March wore...
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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - A day out

I've almost completed the final draft of 'Gift' - my memoir about my time spent as my mother's full-time carer during the final months of her life...
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Mad Girl’s Heart Song

Mad Girl’s Heart Song (A Villanelle, based on Sylvia Plath’s ‘Mad Girl’s Love Song’) Jennifer Pickup, 26.09.2024 for World Mental Health Day 10.10...
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Poem of the week
Pick of the Month

Prospecting

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