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The Ashton Road Gang Chapter 1 January. part 2
Minutes later we were on our way. The Leas were smashing, the snow icy and flat, the slopes steep long and exciting. Across the middle of the meadows...
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"This Isn't England"
John took the mug down from the cupboard without thinking. White porcelain with a chipped rim, its printed red cross faded from years of washing up...
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Down at the Waterhole
Long ago a colourful range of animals gathered at the water hole, in a wary truce of necessity. The water nullified traditional enmities, and allowed...
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Flowers in the desert, wartime
Having dipped into these wartime letters* from my father to his girlfriend/fiancée/my mother, put them in order (finding there were about 420, less...
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Night fishing
Just us—two cocklepickers
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The Gift
The Gift The small white house sat on a hillside, in a modest area of a small midwestern town. Rob and Teri Rollins lived there with their four...
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The Ashton Road Gang Chapter 1 January.
Now for something completely different. This is the story of a gang of lads growing up in the north of England in the mid 1950s. Most of it is...
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Rembrien Chapter 9.
Chapter 9. Into the Dead World. Sophrayni left the inn before dawn. The road to the east was dry and crumbly, dust floating in the quiet air. No...
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Tramps Like Us
Tramps Like Us The song rages hard from the bedroom. Well, I guess it was selected on Hope. Alexa dealing jokers on an E Street Shuffle. All I want...
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Crazy Scenes at Club Hypnagogo
This Sort of Thing - a whimsical journal writing undertaking. September 2026 (Part 2 of 2).
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Poem III: Genesis 21, Amended
we you I the one who watches and looks away Hagar and Ishmael cast out into the wilderness, with the rescue deleted. No voice is heard, no eyes are...
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summer memories
sandcastles and running through the tall grasses that grew along the shoreline a boy with shaky knees hazel eyes and brown hair lost socks and wet...
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All the President’s Haemorrhoids
This Sort of Thing - a whimsical journal writing undertaking. September 2026 (Part 1 of 2).
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Frankenplot: Ghost Story – Uphill
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy – Hamlet Act 1, Scene 5. Shakespeare. Frankenplot: Ghost...
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Wicked Woman
Wicked Woman By Paul McCann I got a bad bad woman trying to tell me what to do she's like a screaming demon and her words beat me black and blue oh...
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The Kingdom without a Dragon Chapter 6.
Chapter Six. The Final Act. The story of the heroic battle with eye witness reports of the event and photographs of the burning carcass and the madly...
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Rembrien Chapter 8.
Chapter 8. The Eastern Gate. Shade took Sophrayni eastward. The fields were green, the trees full, and the air carried the scent of damp earth and...
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Preparing the ground.
My part of the world is bathed in a welter of autumn sunshine this morning. The earth is still damp from the early dew that will shortly evaporate; a...
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Writer's Island : Chapter 2
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Nick was married. He knew women alright now. He had left his lovely wife behind on this jaunt. Writing was often a very antisocial hobby or activity...
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