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Grace Part Ten.
Paul decided as I clearly wasn't relaxed, that he would give me a nice back massage. I had never had a massage in my life, it just didn't appeal to...
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Hearing Merlin

Unhurried, Celtic legends wash up on Merlin's bay, cove of mystery lingers here, magic mixed with deep emotions stirring in vastness of sea with...
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Effort & View

Black Mountain Ridge sweeps down to quiet Olchon valley – dead end, springing to life! ‘Our path’s up there.’ “Oh! maybe we’ll have lunch half way up...
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Labour of Love

The sky is painted with clouds as the promise of rain fills the sky. All I feel is gratitude for even in the cloudy sky lies beauty , adding to that...
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Ostrich Egg
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Hushhh Take your hands And hold your mind And hold it very still Focus on my words Whisper, if you will A fragile shell With speckled spots Spots of...
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Cycle

Swirling my finger in the chest hair of the American dream Swirling my finger in the soft serve idea of you Swirling hair down the drain Swirling my...
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A tree without blossoms
Knobbly with buds, its bubbling with spring; each brass bud's a mouth that is bursting to sing. Babbling with birds and wobbling with wind; a tree...
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Out of the austerity of Winter
Out of the austerity of winter, a red rose, blooming, bravely raised its head. Frost clutched at it with blue and icy fingers and wished, in her cold...
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Grace Part Nine.
So, when we got home after the wedding, it was still hot, so we had a bath, I went first then Paul. I’d bought some lovely lingerie for my wedding...
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A Question for My Economics Teacher
*/ Everywhere I looked, it was the dogs who seemed the most impoverished. Tucked into a neat ball, folding into themselves, with permanent frowns as...
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No Words
*/ Yom HaZikaron Reflection -- */ There’s no word for it. This day, this ceremony, this commemoration. There’s no word for it. This overwhelming...
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Chadpocalypse 1:11 - Hired Help

Need to catch up? Check out the Collection: https://www.abctales.com/collection/chadpocalypse 1:11 Hired Help When Joe told Chad they were headed to...
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Report to the 3,244,874th presidium on galactic economic activity

Observed interplanetary trade in sector 685b - Earth correspondent. (Yawn!)
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Wisdom
Wisdom P K Routray To be wise on wisdom peeped in an urge from heart’s bottom. Is knowledge, intellect as its companion with their appropriate timely...
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Something Hard Inside Him (Part 2)
Short story in 2 parts.
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Something Hard Inside Him (Part 1)

Short story in 2 parts.
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Monster In Law
"My son, my son," Is the battle cry She wanted him to get married Now she wonders why. The wife is a distraction She takes away her share of love Why...
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Drums Across the Mohawk

Goodbye for a while... Image is pixabay.com and CC0
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we don't need an autopsy to know that we're drowning
we don’t need an autopsy to know that we’re drowning beyond sight our waste bulges brick tunnels jam in the darkness all that we have left behind and...
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Love Change Me
Love Change Me - By Paul McCann . Changes come and chances are things have to improve from now on. Something has to change soon . I ask myself where...
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