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Weather App. Haiku # 17

By mark p on Mon, 21 Oct 2024

Sun and wind compete Weatherwise a better day A feelgood factor!

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Street Games From Another Time

By mcscraic on Mon, 21 Oct 2024

Street Games From Another Time By Paul McCann In another time that seems so distant now we used to play games of one kind or another around the...

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On the bright side (IP)

By Caldwell on Mon, 21 Oct 2024

Woke up late for the job interview, No shower, no breakfast, no time for a brew. The clock sneered ten; I cursed, I ran, But on the bright side, I...

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Figurehead

By queen beatle on Mon, 21 Oct 2024

I ride the hag back

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My Father Is Younger Than Me

By Mark Say on Mon, 21 Oct 2024

It had been sixty years since I last saw him

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Is That Even Allowed?

By purplehaze on Mon, 21 Oct 2024

Brought in a ringer allowable. Saturday was Foggie Farmer’s Market. Thought, ‘no spend, no go’. Then thought, it’ll be all Hallowe’en-y, there are...

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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Settling Up (ii)

By HarryC on Sun, 20 Oct 2024

A couple of days later, he came over again. He'd brought his copy of mum's key, so I now had them all. Four door keys in total, plus two for the back...

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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Settling Up (i)

By HarryC on Sun, 20 Oct 2024

Following the final day with the clearance at the bungalow, it's time to pay some bills. (continued from 'Final Day') The next day, I went into Walsh...

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The Bloody Great Stone Heads Problem

By The Other Terrence Oblong on Sun, 20 Oct 2024

I was woken at 6.30 one morning by a hammering on my back door. I quickly dressed and hurried downstairs to find Alun in an excited mood. “ We’ve got...

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Weather App. Haiku #16

By mark p on Sun, 20 Oct 2024

A break in the storm? Bright sunbursts through windblown cloud. Has Ashley moved on?

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Mixed Up Girl

By mcscraic on Sun, 20 Oct 2024

Mixed Up Girl By Paul McCann Keira worked as a clerical assistant for a firm that imported modern day antiques from Indonesia . The owners of the...

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Don't Look Back

By purplehaze on Sun, 20 Oct 2024

Shackleton is haunting me. Pondering what sort of man he was, charismatic, single-minded adventurer. A man who lived by the tenet, "Optimism is true...

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Nights Out With Mammy

By mcscraic on Sun, 20 Oct 2024

Nights Out With Mammy By Paul McCann As a boy scout , we were always doing different activities One of those was an unexpected , unrehearsed , play...

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Don’t feel 'at home'

By Rhiannonw on Sun, 20 Oct 2024

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] I do not feel ‘at home’ here, an ‘alien’ now exiled, for evil things are done here and everything’s defiled...

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MONKEY'S NEW MOON - RELOJANDO CRONICOS

By MJ Fortino on Sat, 19 Oct 2024

The next chapter in the Clocking Chronicles time-travel series. Detective Tempus travels to the Middle Ages.....

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God Save Me

By Alexander Moore on Sat, 19 Oct 2024

She’d been active in previous weeks. It had become a kind of ritual; when the sun began its fiery descent, she knew it was time to get ready. Active...

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

By HarryC on Sat, 19 Oct 2024

The final day of clearance at my mother's bungalow, following her death. Joanne, my niece, comes to help me as my brother has gone on holiday. Lottie...