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The Bungalow-6

Continued from Chapter 5: The Bungalow-5 | ABCtales It was getting on for dusk by the time Hawke gained the end of Church Lane; the session at the...
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Blæc Sunne

People said the eclipse would be partial. Nothing dramatic. Nothing like the total ones he had seen on television, viewed from foreign deserts or mountaintops. There would just be a dimming. A bite taken out of the sun. Enough to make the morning feel strange, perhaps. But not enough to stop him going about his day.
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Amanderella and the Mystery of the Silent Statue.Chapter 1.
Amanderella and the Statue. Chapter One A Sudden Death. Life for Lady Amanderella Gottsnobbler had settled into a fairly regular routine. She went...
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Problems with time. Chapter 8.
Chapter Eight. Out of Time. A group of weary travellers sat near the hearth, clay mugs in hand, talking quietly. As Calizone passed them, she caught...
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3.2 The Paper Trail
The new Human Resources Manager had joined Mauris Bank a little over a month ago, stepping into an executive post with a private office on the top...
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The Paper Wasp

(Image link: https://media.australian.museum/media/dd/images/Some_image.width-1200.e8... ) The Paper Wasp (2006) One morning a good ten years ago, I...
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Afraid to Disturb

(My own photo - just snapped through the window. ) Afraid to Disturb. It’s a usual Thursday morning in the Northern suburbs, I know because if I pay...
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Chapter 14 - Fond memories
Lumen woke up. The fire was out and had been for a time, and the sun was already high, filtering through the highest branches above him. Trying to...
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The Cherry Harvester

While several brilliant Russian playwrights have been eclipsed by political censorship, Anton Checkhow survived the Tsarist state periodic crackdown.
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Problems with time. Chapter 7.
Chapter Seven. Along the Great Road. Calizone reached Weyrham just as the light began to fray into evening. The distortions were weaker here, a few...
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Save your Water for The Devil
Save your water for the devil Let the young trees die - the future oxygenators, our only hope for cleaner air. Let the flowers die - Don’t feed the...
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Money for the Circus 14

Another bit of this stuff. Wonder how it'll turn out?
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Angola Gaffletter Chapter 11.
Chapter Eleven. Purchases and Sales. Angola Gaffletter, newly married and newly signed, neatly and without smudges, rose at six, washed, dressed, and...
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Problems with time. Chapter 6.
Chapter Six. The Forest Was Empty. Calizone drew a sharp, cold breath and stilled her hands. She had been about to reach out with her mind, to cast a...
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Fragile uplands

Anniversary lunch at Craven Arms, Shropshire. Shall we drive up the Long Mynd again? Not necessarily walk much, but a renewed taste of the lovely...
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3.1 The Paper Trail
They arrived at the parlour by seven on Idania’s motorbike, pulling up next to the prestigious Symphony Restaurant. Idania wore a violet sheath dress...
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MAÑANA - Part Two: El Cierre

They held Seventh Avenue for three days and the city gave them the three days the way a man gives ground he means to take back. On the fourth morning...
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Sojourn In Palestine (Welcome To Palestine!) by Alfred N.Muggins : Part 4
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The long awaited Part 4 of Alfred Muggins' modern reworking of the tale of Three Wise Men (Kings!), in which they travel by mistake or grand design, following the star of David, into the modern mess which is the (un) Holy Land in search of the promised Messiah (Saviour), to be born perhaps in the modern equivalent of a stable. Unfortunately these are even more dangerous times than those or the reigns of Emperor Tiberius and King Herod!
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Lost in Complexity
Sociologists pointed out long ago how societies have moved from relatively simple structures to ever more complicated ones. The hunter/gatherer...
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