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Spider Sestina
I see a web a spider's weaving and, hanging on that silken web are, bound up, little creatures, living from whom the lifelight slowly ebbs but their...
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The Essence of the Rose.

Tiers...perfumed tincture of its central perfection, a mystic beauty. The maidens dance morn and noon, faeries jive the pale-faced moon. Rosa shines...
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The Incapability Argument - Another ontological argument and the best one yet I think
Premise 1: What must be is Premise 2: If we can imagine something it is either real or not real Premise 3: If something is incapable of being the...
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The Thirteenth Floor

I was sick in bed with the flu when the police came. Something about a missing woman, routine enquiries they said, with rain running off their hats...
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How I learnt to stop worrying and love Facebook.
Earlier this year there was a news story about Salisbury cathedral having to move a statue because dozy tourists glued to their smartphones kept...
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Mom Thought I Would Be A Girl

Mom thought I would be a girl back in 1971. She was surprised to learn that I was a son. She was surprised but she wasn't disappointed in the least...
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Window 21) The message to Joseph

Joseph, betrothed to Mary, was puzzled, but fair – an angel appeared, to tell him too, in a dream that the child was conceived by the Holy Spirit to be the Saviour, of his people – Jesus – Immanuel, which means God with us. [See …
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FLIGHT

Beneath blue skies You take your route In haste you reach out To help the helpless hand One of our selfless souls That still roams our land Beneath...
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COMMUNE

My community never sleeps Day and night time They know of the stranger who weeps My community never sleeps Guarding and never missing a thing They...
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Swimming Against the Tide
Lucius Malfoy enjoys a Muggle pastime, and contemplates the line between his old and new life. This text is a piece of Harry Potter fan-fiction. All character, locations and concepts are the intellectual property and copyrighted material of J. K. Rowling.
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Santa Clause And His Rock And Roll Band (Seasonal Rock Song)
1st Verse: Dasher bashes on the drums. Donner on a guitar strums. Prancer on piano plays while Blitzen picks electric bass. 2nd Verse: Comet, cupid...
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The Cowboy Santa Clause (Country and Western Seasonal song)
1st Verse: With his red ten gallon hat on, he comes riding through the snow wearing spurs that jingle-jangle just like sleigh bells as he goes. 2nd...
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To See The Newborn King (Christmas Carol)
1. We're Gaspar, Melchior and Balthazar. We're three wise men who're following a star. We're following a star to Bethlehem to see the Newborn king. 2...
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Kiss

The painting is by Caravaggio...
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Authorisation required
‘Authorisation required’ the screen said. He tried to scan the next item, but it wouldn’t let him. ‘Bloody auto-tills’ thought Johnny. He never used...
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the three wise men + one

I was coming back from the Dropp Inn and I met the three wise men, standing in the lane outside The Tasty Spot , at the fence, broken glass at their...
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The Night the Christmas Trees Cried.
Hans and Gerda treating their kinder, blow on roasted chestnuts from red hot cinders. Fairground organ pipes up carolled tunes, Silver palmed Romany’...
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War
War It's a war No, not like the others There is no fighter, I am the king I am the soldier. It's a war I have to win, I have to fly Though I have no...
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Sherlock Holmes and the lost tiger (1)

“Really Lestrade, this is not a case I can help you with.” “I thought it was right up your alley.” Lestrade’s moustache twitched when he was thinking...
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I Remember...

I remember my window, spattered with sleet, the phantasm-feral mist, hovering voodoo flares. A diamond flamed moon... She brought stone-cold nights,...
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