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A Fleeting Glimpse

Brightness shining through. shafts of sunlight flood my room, Summer pays a visit.
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Another Weather App Haiku

Blowing gale in June? Rain showers here and there Where is our summer?
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Ead's invisible bin spaceship

Written 2017 Ead pressed the buttons of his spaceship and brought it into land at Trafalgar Square. It was 1pm in the afternoon on a Saturday. No one...
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Waiting In

The in-store parcel drop-off I took the weripyouoffbuyingyourbooksback.com parcel to had run out of printer labels. “There aren’t any more”...
Cherry

There's Been a Fracas

There’s been a fracas at the Scottish Society of Artists. Allegedly. The president sent out an email to members accusing the administrators of...
Cherry

10 Off at Nine

More of this, I'm afraid. BTW, I haven't used Windows for years. Not since Windows 2000. If only the image were bigger. Anyway, it's the name of the pub mentioned... Which no more exists than, well, that tree falling in the wood.

God Will Never Forsake Us

God is there for us and he'll never forsake us. He will be there until the days that he takes us. He'll continue to be there for us when we're in...
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Poem of the week

Memento Mori

You’re frightened by time Last frolics of fading white lies Risky, holding facts You drop them from your dry lips Search for them on the floor...

Paperback finally published!

Hi folks! I've just published a horror short story collection on Amazon (free on KU). It is also available in paperback. I've uploaded the...
Cherry

Boreas 1, Helios Nil

Boreas has been desperate to blow off all our coats. Poor weather forecasts, causing many incorrect layering decisions, mean we’re either freezing or...
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Cherry

This Sort of Thing - May 2024 - Three Dart Finish

Words are stupid, words are fun. Words can ward off fierce nuns.
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Drifting with the crowd

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Without a thought to safety (they didn’t see him go) the child drifted away from them, assumed that they...

Rest In Peace, Hazel - Part IV

You died half a year ago tonight and I had to say goodbye. It was six months ago when I watched you die. It's never easy when a man loses a dog as...
Cherry

My beautiful sad friend

I got sad news about the mental health of a friend who is extremely dear to me. So I just wrote them down. It's incredible how this kind of circumstance can make it clear how fiercely we love people.

Truth in Advertising- public media

Give the Media a Break In public forums, discussing errors in the mainstream media reporting, one is reminded of the famous “Dewey defeats Truman”...

More Offa’s Dyke views and Nosey young cattle @ Knighton

29/5/24 South from Knighton Offa’s Dyke path (not Kington this time, further north) Steep uphill through shady green woods, mossy tree bases. Out to...
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Open

Sex without love Is like punching water, grabbing sand. Bodies slam but never meet. Hungry tongues never taste The sweet concoction of me in you, You...
Cherry

Beauty awakens the soul to act

“I will finally tell you my big secret,” her mother said. Without emotion, without any embarrassment. As if she were telling her daughter what...

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