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The Viscous Hold of Jam

I wrote this earlier this morning, for the IP but adapted to fit something I need. The town was rotting like fallen fruit. The only place Tammy felt...
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The Jam-man!

drawer … Cistern… toilet-seat … in this chair … In case of emergency, ask …!
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The Things Missed

Image author's own fault. Not much to see here.
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saga

In the wind, whispers of your conversation drift across the scent of coffee brewing while strands of wool weave your heart into mine... your smile...
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The Jammy Tax Dodger

When I’m settling up for what I owe when leaving a restaurant, disembarking from a taxi, admiring my newly coiffured curls in the mirror at Stanislav...
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wildflowers in the wind

into the night when the moon paints in abstract brush strokes of light across my dreams into an ink black sky.... the stars become the muse of the...

Silas Nash Book 1 Hush Hush Honeysuckle Chapter 3 (a)

Max came out of the hospital entrance, sat on a bench and sobbed. People stared at him as they passed, and one old lady said, ‘Oh, dear,’ but didn’t...
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Goatie 14

Sometimes you’re aware of an absence when you come round. Sometimes, but less often, a presence. He wasn’t much to look at. Shaved cue-ball head...
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Silas Nash book 1 Hush Hush Honeysuckle chapter 2

Maxwell Jones was invincible. Nothing could touch him. He couldn’t be killed because, at twenty-eight, he was already dead. He had a brain tumour,...
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Blackberry Moment

Dear diary... Recalling foraging along the woodland trail; where clearly on backdrop of diverse leaves, blackberries thread on limp hanging branches...

7.4 Club Rehendi

“Huda never married.” “She never married. Huda lost a loving boyfriend just like that. His name is Adam. Farida also dated him. Huda was forced to...
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Goatie 13

Flanked by the warden, I followed the governor out of his office. ‘Whit happened tae that crow that got into the dining hall?’
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Hush Hush Honeysuckle: Chapter 1

He would feel like killing himself again today. Life had lost its meaning. In a fit of unaccustomed rage, Silas picked up his clock and threw it at...
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The Reawakening 3/3

I found an ally from my own distant generation
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The Reawakening (2/3)

I met my descendants, and faced a reckoning for the past
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The Reawakening (1/3)

They brought me back to life after a hundred and forty-two years

7.3 Club Rehendi

Tuesday evening, he stepped into the sand-filled lawn in the foreground of Salty Breeze and headed to the kitchen side. The maid waved, “She is...

RESPECT.

So, for anyone lost at sea, it is sad. Over the weekend in the U.K. people drowned. I made sure that my children had swimming lessons when they were...
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Goatie 12

The governor was smoking when I was pushed into his office. He didn’t try and hide it, like he did with civilians. He might have tried to blow smoke...
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Earth-Globe Riddles

We think of the Earth as a perfect sphere. I have three problems, fortunately we won't need sketches! The following are our problems 1. The complete...

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