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Present, Fifteen (2)
The gym was not empty. Joyce came through the double doors at eight fifty-two and there were children on the floor in two lines doing a bending...
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Present, Fifteen (1)
Joyce Setzer got to the school at ten past eight with the box on the passenger seat and the heater still not warm. The lot behind the cafeteria had...
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The Petrol Station
Semi-derelict wasteland. Ugly functioning habits. Men with belly bulging t-shirts. Grubby, passive-aggressive, And rich beyond worth and reason...
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Release
When she's thinking of you, she's not thinking about your size, or you shape or what you look like. She's thinking about the closeness of your face...
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Sophrayni's Quiet Hunt Chapter 5.
Chapter 5. Slipsy Early the next morning, Sophrayni made her way to the next town Maggie had mentioned. Once again, she arrived at a coaching inn...
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Amanderella and the Mystery of Wittering Crags. Chapter 6.
Chapter Six. Woldscar Hall. The path to Woldscar Hall ran along the edge of the reservoir, a long stretch of dark water that made Amanderella shiver...
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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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