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Cloudy goes to the Boulie.
Spending loose change was the easy part. Chips and suppers, a bitter pickle. A bottle of ginger-beer, which reminded me how young they were. Standing...
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The Arm Farm - 1
Hi All, you might recognize this story from a post here a long while back. Someone has finally agreed to publish my bizarre tale in a fiction...
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I refute it all.
My ex wife’s new husband doesn’t understand And I’m not writing him any more letters I can’t keep trying to find the language. Back in my kitchen I...
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Phil Longley Was Still There (2)
PART TWO OF TWO
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Paralysis- A Horror Short Story
“Go ahead inside, Dr. Winslow will be with you shortly”, the receptionist said. It was a baby-faced yet well-built young man who greeted him. He had...
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the sun was orange
they come at dawn with orange ribbons because he thought the sun was orange like a tangerine, he'd said like your jumper they come at dawn with words...
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Phil Longley Was Still There
PART ONE OF TWO
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An Australian View
A wall of pain roasted hundreds of Koalas huddled inside their last moments. A 2019 fire-storm ravaged and savaged them as they shuffled within...
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Kintsugi
Kintsugi touring the Gaeltacht in a clapped-out Morris I was pretty much lost but that was fine by me - I’m one for serendipity as evening settled, I...
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Slamming It Down
. Slamming It Down By Paul McCann I was walking down the street , with my finger up my nose, I was telling everybody. hey this is how it goes. Gimmie...
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A Casual Fling
As long as no one gets too serious He types to me Devoid of emotion A wipe-clean relationship A friend with benefits Weekend sex A hangover spoon Is...
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Cloudy going home
Lisa gave me her perfumed hanky to stem the bleeding. But I clutched at my hand when we came out of the door of the pub. The girls had no coats. They...
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I Name that Shoe....
I’m not particularly fussed about footwear these days but as a child it’s difficult to describe how shoes made me feel. It was as if the shoes on my...
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half a lifetime ago
half a lifetime ago half a lifetime ago I found god or god found me unexpectedly my wife was hostile to my faith so I said goodbye and walked a...
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Symphony of The Sea-Nymphs:
Symphony of The Sea-Nymphs: The sea ebbs and flows Murky; Not crystalline nor blue! Poseidon emerges out of a phantom Ship! Not taciturn today; He...
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Anachronistic Ways
Anachronistic Ways Trespassing lizards still use The same route! Camouflaged, mute! Yet the German-Shephard barks! “It is the smell”, the shepherdess...
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13th
13/October It is not pleasant out there. Not pleasant at all. Raining and raining non-stop. In times of plague, the damp weather is depressing...
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House Ghost
I've been watching The Haunting
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Retraining
Remedying the situation.
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Jobs
Some bring riches … some easy … exciting … wearisome and undervalued … cries for extra workers … to earn enough … support family … discreet charity … unappreciated and labour arduous, tough.
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