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Strange!
There was an old lady of Wales, who had a peculiar habit: when the time came for trimming her nails she reached for her straw hat to grab it. That...
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Over And Out
Over and Out By Paul McCann When you know , its time to go , then you better let them know , before you can get on board , its too late to stop the...
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you cry, you die. chapter 7
Minutes later, he sat huddled in a dimly lit noodle shop, his mind racing. He kept replaying what had just happened, and Bronson’s final, dying word...
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Autumn Haikus
Ideas not forming pruning poems like roses now, A new book next year? Autumn is here, then. A heatwave is the forecast! Geese fly overhead.
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Ekphrastic
My self portrait from a few years back came in for a lot of stick and flak. Someone told me that I looked dead, and made nasty comments 'bout the...
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White Noise
Now I'm in the system riding on ocean waves of chemotherapy and medication deeper than anything I've known before, needles bruise; feeding...
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Lucky Pants
All the images I could find were too horrible ...
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Mechanized symphony in G Minor
A Mechanized melody in G Minor When you live on a golf course, you have to be ready for the often-early arrival of a motorized maintenance force...
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The Lucky Jumper
A child's faith in his lucky jumper was absolute..
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clean sheets
Alack, collector of dreams, set back the clock ! I'll drink from this cup, With grace and with greed. Gaslight me confidently, See through this mien...
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Amanderella and the Mystery of Wittering Crags. Chapter 5,
Chapter Five. A Stroll round town. Amanderella was woken at eight o’clock, just as she had asked. A young woman brought in a tray with a cup of tea...
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Sophrayni's Quiet Hunt Chapter 4.
Chapter 4. More Stalls and more potions. Sophrayni used a spell that Calizone had taught her to make the journey go faster. Even so, it was getting...
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Lighthouse Gods.
When the lighthouse keepers left they kept a light on for the gods of such places. Beacons of the Northern Lighhouse Board, tabarnacles of Trinity...
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On Basics of Arithmetic
The Fundamental Theorem Whole numbers, Divisors and Prime numbers Every natural number can be uniquely factored into primes. The Theorem says that...
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Nobody Is Jealous Of You - Part 5
“…The Federation doesn’t just ban you based on random photography and hearsay,” Dimitri jumped in, calling the curtain on Ailis’s soap opera. It...
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Sophrayni's Quiet Hunt Chapter 3.
Chapter 3. The Charmers. Sophrayni moved through the square like a breeze, no one noticed. The charmers were everywhere—chatting, bartering,...
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Amanderella and the Mystery of Wittering Crags. Chapter 4.
Chapter Four. Cragglethwaite. Cragglethwaite announced itself not with a signpost, but with a sudden narrowing of the road and a sheep that refused...
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Binding gracious hands
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] They bound those hands that healed* when Peter used his sword** to cut off Malchus’ ear –Christ touched –...
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Happy Christmas From Worksop
Well I wish I could be in Worksop every day.
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Fifth Row from the Front (6)
He went up the field along the fence and then cut in across the rows, and by the fourth row he was running. He went over the hood of somebody's car...
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