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4.2 The Waterfront Office
18 th August was Shina’s birthday. It was Sunday, a working day but the upper floors held a more relaxed atmosphere. Shina came early and climbed to...
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Spellbound Chapter 7.
Chapter Seven. More Magic. “Bread day,” announced Aunt Meg. “You can help me mix the dough.” They measured out the flour and added water. Sophie...
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Amanderella and the Casket Mystery Chapter 2.
Chapter 2. The Undertakers’ Dilemma. The two men accepted Amanderella’s invitation to sit with the air of people approaching a delicate and possibly...
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Old Covenant — New Covenant
Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] In covenant with God … the sacrifices pointing on … When Jesus came to earth … new covenant in His name …
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Found (4)
The office on Fayetteville Street had a saltwater tank in the waiting room and a rack of magazines with the address labels torn off. They took Aldina...
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Debility
Debility is a skeleton hand imagined in X-ray reaching up from the funeral Earth pulling and bogging me down. Debility is how despite strenuous...
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Long awaited
Flashes in the night, faintly light the bedroom … rumble … how far? again …awhile … again … when will we here hear rain? Suddenly the sound of water...
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A Course Reversal
Image by mark 1657 from Pixabay.
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The Bungalow-9 & 10
Continued from Chapter 8: The Bungalow-8 | ABCtales Chapter 9 Hawke had been to the police station in Caterham to answer a few questions.. A...
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Amanderella and the Casket Mystery Chapter 1.
Chapter One Gentlemen Callers. Number 9 Wimple Terrace was a house that liked things to be just so. It stood halfway down the row, with freshly...
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Spellbound Chapter 6.
Chapter Six. Further North. The further they travelled toward the Ice Queen’s realm, the colder the air became. Inns grew scarce, and twice they had...
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The lady might be for turning, she's not sure
( In response to the IP 'Marking the turn')
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Spellbound Chapter 5.
Chapter Five. Cheese Making. Sophie was shaken awake by her aunt very early the next morning. “No time to lie in bed, we have a lot to do.” After a...
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Amanderella and the Mystery of the Silent Statue.Chapter 9.
Chapter Nine. The Statue. Sir Cottam looked at the ruler again, then placed it back on the desk. “The statue in question must be the one at the...
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Of Hungry Ghosts and Odysseus in the Underworld
This is the month of the hungry ghosts. The gates of the other worlds, heaven and hell, swing open. Those who have departed this world return to...
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4.1 The Waterfront Office
By the end of July 2013, taking advantage of the fasting month, Mauris Bank completed its relocation to the new venue by the waterfront on Marine...
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An Afternoon With Perperuna
Wouldn’t you just die without Georges Brassens and the Slavic gods?
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Found (3)
"Are we rich now?" Aldina asked it with her mouth full, at the table, on an ordinary Wednesday, in the same voice she used for asking what was for...
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Found (2)
She paid the power bill in person at the office in Asheboro, under the glass, because she wanted it to be a woman's hand that took it and not a slot...
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Found (1)
The water had gone cool while Hollis argued about getting into it, so Laverne ran more hot and tested it against her wrist and told him it was fine...
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