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Escape of the Boer Swimmers
During the South African War (October 1899 – May 2002) many Boers were taken prisoner and exiled by the British Army. Most of the prisoner of war...
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Classic Complaints to British Weather! (IP)
It’s too hot or it’s too cold. There is never an in between temperature that is just right. When it gets hot we as a nation complain to much. As a...
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Ghigau 2.
Monday 10th July Lenny’s forty-five minute walk to work, down leafy avenues and across the park, was a pleasant one. It was already very warm and the...
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Ghigau 1.
Monday 10th July. One year later, near Primrose Hill, London. It was the beginning of a new week. London’s skyline glittered expensively, silhouetted...
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Ghigau
What happens when tragedy strikes twice?
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Pudding Detective - Chapter 4
Pudding's dreams were always weird. But since becoming a detective they had taken on a whole new level of weirdness.
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The Cave Of Good Souls
The Cave Of Good Souls By Paul McCann Milly Finchwhizzle lived in a house at the end of the road with her front path flanked by lots of multicoloured...
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Thinking about Meliorism
For a few years now in my academic work I’ve been thinking about love. bell hooks suggests that there are ‘not very many public discussions of love [...
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Fifty-One Empty Places at the Dinner Table
Who can sleep while the genocide goes on in Gaza? Certainly not me.
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Come, pray …
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Why scorn all thought of one great God? a God who came to earth as babe, and when a man, did good, was kind...
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The Cycle of Being
THE CYCLE OF BEING IN A RHYTHMIC MANNER, THIS CONSCIOUS COLLECTIVE QUANTUM CONSCIOUSNESS: GATHER, CALCULATE, AND STORED, EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE, AND...
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A NEW
ANEW THE GENTLE RAINS ANNOUNCE THEIR SEASON A NEW, GLISTENING, REFRESHING, AND NOURISHING SEEDS SOWN: AS LIFE BREAKS THROUGH. NOW SPARK LIKE HIDDEN...
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LEAVE IT ALONE #2
LEAVE IT ALONE #2 IS IT SO WRONG TO CHOOSE A LIFE? OF INTROSPECTION: A TRAIN TOWARD TANGENT, A PROTOTYPE: SO INCISIVE THAT IT OUTLIVES ITS RIVALS...
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My Jewel Box
Teardrop Aquamarine done with 16-year-old Bridesmaid duties, drips elegantly from her chain next to a single Sapphire pendant. Set of three Star...
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Answer (Episode 14 - The Further Chronicles of a Young Lady (and her Maid))
In which Aefelthrith provides an answer but it's not quite what Gwladys was expecting!
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The 30th Anniversary Of Graduating From High School
I dropped out of high school in August of 1986. In 1993, that was a mistake that I decided to fix. I was only fifteen years old when I dropped out...
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Assisted when dying*, or assisted to (encouraged to?) suicide
How many may wish, but later relief, that there wish had not been granted: Mum-in-law, a hurting, and hard lady angrily hoped she would never be...
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Xion Usland Zero: Chapter 31
Nash was behind Norton, and she was closing in on the Harley. Travis turned in his seat. They were right behind Norton on his tail, and for a second...
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Are you still alive?
“I know I have disappointed you,” says the father. The son avoids his dad’s gaze. He looks at his cell phone. The messages keep pouring in. ‘Where...
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Mercury Rising
Mercury Rising Oh boy do we like to talk about the weather! I always say that in the UK at least we’d be left speechless if the topic of the weather...
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