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Queen City of the Great Lakes
Queen City of the Great Lakes During the shipping season, at the Erie Basin Marina on Buffalo’s waterfront, you can often watch the massive bulk of a...
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"The Coffee House Spy" 14

“Give us some answers and we may leave you in a nice place when we dump you.” Brent threatened with a cold smile. “I’ve already told you I’m a bead...
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Exuberant Burning
Exuberant Burning Your time to shine: come from a period of relaxation and refreshing. Laughter often reminds us to be filled with a perpetuated zeal...
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When Snow Becomes Memories
When Snow Becomes Memories When Snow Becomes Memories? It runs off and departs in haste. Leave behind warm hugs. Standing outside, observing the...
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Unforeseen Circumstances

Do you believe in Fate?
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"Unwanted Magic" 4

Joey listened intently to the bird’s singing in the tree and began to hum the tune along with them trying to remember the words. Joey’s dad picked up...
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An Octopus Picks Litter at the End of the World
A serrated bottle cap. A triangle of green glass. These are unusual shells: strange, immortal tools that she collects during a morning’s foraging...
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New Directions (9)
Dev called and asked me to drive to his home. He dictated an address in West Wycombe which I was able to dial into my navigation app while he spoke...
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What about the yellow flowers?

She squeezes my hands like my fingers are thin lemons. I'll let her. I do not dare to look at her. But I know she's biting her lips; I realize there...
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MALIGN INTENT - Teaser chapter - The wood by the estuary

Crowe slewed his car down the estuary road. The recent downpour had turned it into an unforgiving quagmire. Each tap of the brake might tip him into...
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1:4:8 Doubles (Part 2)
It was so much nicer indoors. The air was cooler and less humid, the ground didn’t feel quite so hard and the sun was nowhere to be seen. Lore tapped...
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It's Only Life - A Short Walk Through Panama
Its only life. We walked from a black freighter with a crossbones at its mast und fűnzig canonen. We flowed down the broken street, feet dropping...
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The Experts #2
At 5 a.m. a young woman appeared on telly with expensive hair, full makeup, snazzy earrings and a mouthful of large glowhite teeth (easily capable of...
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Cold steel
When I returned one time from war I brought a "trophy"home, going from that to "ordinary" life is almost impossible for many, it's why i've always...
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Nothing To Declare.

I love this programme and have enjoyed watching them for years. I first saw it from the Australian one. I love it, that they are strict at customs...
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Frankie! (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 53)

It's only taken 53 episodes but here we are, finally, at the funeral of 'Sir Lewisham'. Now, what could possibly go wrong?
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This Funny Thing This Love
The Funny Thing, This Love Many have expressed it with words so profoundly. In songs too astounding, in prayers sweetly utter, kept or flung away. A...
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The Gaddafi Effect

The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Eleven (with photographs, though they're the same photographs as in Part Ten, so you may have seen them before).
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New Directions (8)

Normally it was an hour’s drive to Dev’s from Celia’s village, but ten miles east on the M4 the snow had been more successful at screwing things up...
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