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Did you hear

Did you hear the one about the plastic surgeon with a Parkinsons's shake? His client went in for a nose job, came out with a vasectomy.

"Love will Keep Us Together"

NEIL SEDAKA 1939 - 2026 He's always been and will continue to be a HERO of mine! Thank you, Neil, for all the love expressed so beautifully,...

Blue Moon Dream

From our gauntly utilitarian porch, the tawdry majesty of Modernia, the city of dreams, stretched and sloped out below like a pleasant suggestion of...
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Never Gonna Give

Danny & Julie's Story - Part 6
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Rest In Peace, Mom - Part IX

If people ask, I'll tell them how great of a mother you were. You died thirteen years ago today and it was hard to endure. When your life ended...

The Tannins That Bind

There's something wrong with it... Not something one can put their finger on but rather something that can only be detected with the tip of the...
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March Garden Haiku

Pruning back roses, My secateurs selected, snipping at the stems!

Evolutionary Myths

They used to say, Some things are relics in our bodies from previous non-human ancestors – vestigal, useless now, like the vermiform appendix, but...

Teeth Tales: Ernie's Terrible Teething

A gripping tale about baby Ernie's teething problems getting completely out of control.
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In Trouble, Deep

Danny & Julie's Story - Part 5
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The Aromatherapist of Kozloduy

Summary but certainly not summery, though quite springlike towards the end of the month. Using precisely one hundred words per day, here’s my account of the things that went on in my Bulgarian life during the latter fourteen days of February.
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Legless

Legless. He stands on the pavement, under the sign, in exactly one place. Wobbling, swaying, leaning this way, then that way. Never setting off but...

Teeth Tales - Decline and Fall

A second bite at the Teeth Tales challenge.
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My Time In A & E

Dear diary... I never thought that I would be back in A & E. almost ten years from the last time I was there. It began on Tuesday February 24 th...
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Spiral Descent

A man learns the the truth about a family legend. Inspired by a painting by CRW Nevinson.
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Hoping for divine intervention

Hoping for divine intervention isn't going to help us! I wonder what Steve McQueen would do? Humphrey Bogart, Nelson Mandela. Troublemakers! Jesus...
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A Ticket to the World

Danny & Julie's Story - Part 4
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Bron-19

Continued from Chapter 18: Bron-18 | ABCtales “You can have anything on the menu that you fancy, girls.” Ger settled into his seat, though the dark...

Teeth Tales: "Ratoncito Pérez is Not a Fairy"

I am not a fairy. I know that's a loaded statement. Please allow me to rephrase. I am a mouse. I collect teeth. I have been doing this since 1894 and...
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Jenkins’ Ear

'Go tell your king that we'll do this to him,' they said, as they chopped off his ear You're not wanted here, the Americas are ours, we hold the...
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