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Ridgeline - Part Seventeen: Gray Light
The light came without announcement. Not a sunrise. Not the golden spilling that the word "dawn" promises. A grayness — slow, directionless, the sky...
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Ridgeline - Part Sixteen: Stay
The dog crawled onto her legs. She felt it happen — the weight shifting, the damaged body dragging itself forward from its position against her back...
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A Tweed Coat Night
It's a tweed coat night, an Irish stout night, the place is hoaching, the craic is great, you sing '29 Dollars and an Alligator Purse', It's Waits'...
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Gran's House Haiku
Cold cracked windowsill Plastic flowers stand still in swan shaped china vase. ( On recalling my gran's house in the 1970s)
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Lerwick Haiku
Shining silver sea Early morning, Lerwick Bay Seal swimming shallows.
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Bron-33
Continued from Chapter 32: Bron-32 | ABCtales Grace tapped gently on the door of Georgetta’s third-floor flat. “Come in … door’s not locked.” Her...
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The Constant Birth
Another one from my 1968 notebook and one of my sketches done in 2021. The Constant Birth In times of toil and days like these with summers sun and...
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McCalliog and his hens (4)
I phoned Tilly straight away, as soon as I left Meirson’s. “The McCalliog?” she said. “What’s a McCalliog?” “The painting. The painting of ducks that...
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Chapter 4: The Journey Begins.
Chapter 4: The Journey Begins. Amanderella counted the coins in her purse and quickly realised she was going to need more than she had raised with...
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Ridgeline - Part Fifteen: The Reckoning
The cold had a texture. Not the absence-of-heat cold from earlier — the goosebumps, the prickling, the muscles clenching. That cold had been the body...
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Ridgeline - Part Fourteen: After
The flashlight was on the ground where he'd dropped it. She could see the beam — orange now, not the white it had been, the batteries dying, the cone...
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The Donaldson Controversy (5)
Watson’s position as best-in-class didn’t last, however. For the next lesson we were greeted by yet another change of lecturer. “Where is Prof...
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The Donaldson Controversy (4)
“Variable quality,” Prof Ambrose addressed the class. “Very variable quality.” He was feeding back on our first essays. “Watson, you’ve quoted large...
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Gunnar Ross Chapter 4
Chapter 4 An Unexpected Guest Gunnar swung open the door. “ Old man, I need answers!” he snapped. The old man pushed Gunnar back inside. “ And you’ll...
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"Rein Me In" Reprise
Sam Fender and Olivia Dean: 26th March 2026 onwards... (Part 9 of 9)
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A Most Unexpected Place
You never know what you might find when you open a door!
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The Amazing Adventure of Amanderella Gottsnobbler Chapter 3
Chapter 3: Escape. Amanderella’s idea started off modestly. She would teach the village girls one or two of her seventeen ways to disable an attacker...
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The Expanse
Recently posted on X/Twitter as part of a weekly poetry challenge hosted by @TopTweetTuesday and @blackboughpoems With a word limit of 80, the theme...
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The Donaldson Controversy (3)
“I think I’ll have a salad today,” said Miss Groves when we met for luncheon. “What about you?” “Jacket potato.” “And filling?” “I’ll wait to see...
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McCalliog and his hens (3)
I went into town. I wasn’t going to ring Tilly before I had all of the facts. Meirson’s didn’t look the site of a kerfuffle, it looked the same as it...
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