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The Vampire
Jess is talking about the vampire like it really exists. She twists and tugs on her stringy hair, points to her skin, especially pale in the winter...
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Switchback Ch2
Henry Caine’s chubby fingers stuffed a handful of French fries into his mouth as he managed the final stair up to his first floor apartment, and this...
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How like Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” has our society become?
In George Orwell’s novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four , the rulers of Oceania, the all-powerful Party, have three fundamental slogans: “War is peace...
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The strange truth about anxiety
Can anxiety be good for us? That is this article in a nutshell (not a nut case – that’s me). Since you’re probably thinking I’ve finally lost the...
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Switchback End of Ch1
Before Carter opened the door he cupped a hand to the glass to see the pick-up still on the sparsely-lit parking lot. He didn’t think his assailants...
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Switchback Chapter One
Adam Carter twisted his wedding ring around on his finger as he stood in Richmond’s Holy Cross cemetery at the foot of two graves. The one on his...
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roadkill
I didn’t see it coming. A Toyota. Barcellona red metallic. I spun from the glancing blow a number of times. Graceful in a way. And then Hit the deck...
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The BC Adventure 9
December 15, 1920 Vesuvius, Salt Spring Dear Mums, Daddy and Dorothy, A very happy Christmas to you all. I have posted off a little gift for each of...
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The Sorting
The Sorting It started with his baseball shirt. It was still on its hanger in the laundry room. On laundry days I'd pause, then lay my hand on a...
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From Queen Anne Ave
Greetings from Queen Anne Ave. I'm a father of 3 and a disabled citizen who got 'into politics' because though I had good private insurance, I wasn't...
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My Cat (deceased)
My cat (deceased) visited me Last night in my dream Had something to tell me, Something to say From her floating platform Far away But still she has...
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glitter
The man from Council. A wee nyaff, clipboard, pen and baldy heid. He’d come to see the wall in the back bedroom and there was no arguing with him. ‘...
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On the Offing
here we stand, here we stand. It is from this - now near - mortal passing place; Where the truth of time and the depth of space, Are revealed in a...
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sequential creation
… I, I. I am. I am here, I am here, again. I am here again, for your love… Rising now sowing, in the birth of your love once more; And in the rising...
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Charmed
The sickened sight of death befalls, Catching each alarmed, Yet in the turmoil of excess, We all are grotesquely charmed.
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Should cycling be banned in parks & the countryside?
It was reported last year in my local newspaper that a cyclist had been prosecuted for cycling at 41 miles an hour in Richmond Park (the speed limit...
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Don't make assumptions
Father and offspring on a northern line tube. Father, Italian we think; children, both outwardly consumed in books. Struck by the artifice of it. Not...
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Why science couldn’t exist without instinct
Some people think that the rational part of the human brain is more important than the instinctive, that the conscious (ie, reasoning) mind matters...
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Proud Moments
Dear Diary...looking back now I don't know how I did all those classes, plus all the preparing for a session everyday. After my son went to school, I...
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