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As You Wish

If your life is unbearable, what do you wish for? Rewrite of something posted in response to an IP nine years ago. Old IPs never die, they just get much needed edits...
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My Groundbreaking Article

They abide in the gritty entrance of your local supermarket. How I pity them, sitting there on wire stands. A publication that seems to apologize...
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Strange dreams of past lives

I had a recurring dream as a child ,that I have a brother and that we live together in Celtic times. We explore the ruins the rural landscape and...
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6 "You'll Hear My Voice, On the Wind, 'Cross the Sand"

1000 words in total today. A long time since I've done that. Anyway, here is more of this. And I hope you've all been ear-wormed by the time you get to the end...

The Envelope: God's Provision

The early 1980s were a scary time for parents with toddlers. A week did not go by without the media reporting children developing Reye’s syndrome, an often fatal condition following a viral infection like the flu or chickenpox.

A Child of Great Promise

After two miscarriages, Liz and I quietly began to accept the prospect of being childless. Then, in 1974, we received the good news that we were with child again.

A virtuous Woman

To be young a bride your beauty must not be of jewels gold adorning and braiding hair, beauty is vain charm is deceit, favour is fickle, beauty fades...

Recollections

Do you remember when...
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A Proper Sunday

I love a proper Sunday. No intention of going anywhere. Proper coffee and slow-cooked sticky sausages for breakfast. Pottering in your jammies. Minor...
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5 Smokin'

This might be the next one off the production line, I'll let you know. Image made at Canva.com The first 2000 words are here https://www.abctales.com/collection/prospero-vint

One

One imagines that one can rise up above the earth and fly among the stars and planet rounds and rounds to further still, the milky way and way beyond...
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A BUTTERFLY, PT. 2

A BUTTERFLY , PT. 2 He had parked his car on the fifth floor, which meant a lift to the ticket machine on the fourth and then an escalator up. With...
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A BUTTERFLY, PT. 1

A BUTTERFLY , PT 1 Like being in a fish tank. That’s how he would have described it to the shop assistant, had she asked. But she didn’t. Judging by...
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Zen and the Art of Calorie Counting

May 29 th was National Biscuit Day. At last, a meaningless national day I can embrace. From January to March, I attended a weekly class run by one of...

Guilt washed away

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] One of those thieves crucified acknowledged his guilt and his shame. He’d even reviled, mocking Jesus, but...

A Wedding Day To Remember

A Wedding Day To Remember By Paul McCann Gerry and Joanne nearly never made it to their own wedding . On the day of the wedding Gerry was walking out...

Arduous

One's best success comes after their greatest disappointment- Henry Ward Beecher Arduous Twist and turns, no doubt cycles in process, growing pains...
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In the mix

She was on the spectrum Hated waiting never laughed She scratched her arms With a ball point pen And laughed at the scars She could articulate The...

Says what?

Here’s a puzzle on a building, How and why and when fixed up? Can you work out – read its message, no, not Latin, nothing deep. Bottom right , then...
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Watching You, Chapters Seven and Eight

Chapter Seven Black loafed into the car park, deserted already, but there was a rusty portable rectangular frame enclosing a message chained to the...

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