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Autumn Haikus

Ideas not forming pruning poems like roses now, A new book next year? Autumn is here, then. A heatwave is the forecast! Geese fly overhead.

Ekphrastic

My self portrait from a few years back came in for a lot of stick and flak. Someone told me that I looked dead, and made nasty comments 'bout the...
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White Noise

Now I'm in the system riding on ocean waves of chemotherapy and medication deeper than anything I've known before, needles bruise; feeding...
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Lucky Pants

All the images I could find were too horrible ...
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Mechanized symphony in G Minor

A Mechanized melody in G Minor When you live on a golf course, you have to be ready for the often-early arrival of a motorized maintenance force...
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The Lucky Jumper

A child's faith in his lucky jumper was absolute..
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clean sheets

Alack, collector of dreams, set back the clock ! I'll drink from this cup, With grace and with greed. Gaslight me confidently, See through this mien...
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Amanderella and the Mystery of Wittering Crags. Chapter 5,

Chapter Five. A Stroll round town. Amanderella was woken at eight o’clock, just as she had asked. A young woman brought in a tray with a cup of tea...
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Sophrayni's Quiet Hunt Chapter 4.

Chapter 4. More Stalls and more potions. Sophrayni used a spell that Calizone had taught her to make the journey go faster. Even so, it was getting...
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Lighthouse Gods.

When the lighthouse keepers left they kept a light on for the gods of such places. Beacons of the Northern Lighhouse Board, tabarnacles of Trinity...

On Basics of Arithmetic

The Fundamental Theorem Whole numbers, Divisors and Prime numbers Every natural number can be uniquely factored into primes. The Theorem says that...

Nobody Is Jealous Of You - Part 5

“…The Federation doesn’t just ban you based on random photography and hearsay,” Dimitri jumped in, calling the curtain on Ailis’s soap opera. It...
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Sophrayni's Quiet Hunt Chapter 3.

Chapter 3. The Charmers. Sophrayni moved through the square like a breeze, no one noticed. The charmers were everywhere—chatting, bartering,...
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Amanderella and the Mystery of Wittering Crags. Chapter 4.

Chapter Four. Cragglethwaite. Cragglethwaite announced itself not with a signpost, but with a sudden narrowing of the road and a sheep that refused...
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Binding gracious hands

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] They bound those hands that healed* when Peter used his sword** to cut off Malchus’ ear –Christ touched –...
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Fifth Row from the Front (6)

He went up the field along the fence and then cut in across the rows, and by the fourth row he was running. He went over the hood of somebody's car...
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Fifth Row from the Front (5)

Going back up the field was not like coming down it. There were people standing in the aisle now, three and four together, and they did not move when...
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Pip!

The stories we're told in our childhood might stay with us longer than you'd expect!
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The Bungalow-14

Continued from Chapter 13: The Bungalow-13 | ABCtales If there was one form of stupidity Hawke hated, it was the stupidity of inanimate objects. He...
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