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Unseen Britain - Scarborough from Smugglers Apprentice to North Sands and back
Scarborough has two beaches which are ‘spread out along either side of its headland, which is thrust out like a clenched hand into the sea with its...
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Idea: Horizontally Rotating Electric Fan
What if, rather than fan blades rotating vertically you had one large, vertical (upright) blade that rotated horizontally round and round. Surely...
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Dreams in the River
On the morning of solitude’s most sacred day, Was to spend the wake on grassy banks of rivers clean. Dazzled and seamless our mistress’ mighty flow,...
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Leggings – The Worst Curse!
“Yes, Dragon Hall, I paid for it with my writing and odd jobs. I used to teach English classes there. I had a teaching cert. Then.”
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ELECTRIC SPARKS
we linger in the distance for we're forced to bide our time the poem, though now completed still must wait to hear its rhyme . the rain falls down...
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The Real Yellow Banana
She held the doll close to her heart and made her way through all of the people at the fair. Down here, no one had a face and nothing seemed familiar...
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Good people
They say the good ones always sacrifice more. Always bow and devoted to whatever unacceptable situations that happens. Always surrender to get...
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How to Excel at Make-Believing
“How much longer before we can eat? The pizza is getting cold,” I muttered, hoping she’d notice my growing irritation. She didn’t. I wasn’t surprised...
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PressureHeatwave
Intense the heat, the hurt, the pain, repeat, repeat again, again – unbearable sense of defeat. Robot-like keep going, sleep, get up, work, earn –...
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The Grief of Gaziantep.
The Grief of Gaziantep. Hotter than a Dragon’s kiss, the seas boil under saffron sun. Tiny thrumming mosquitoes zone on sweating, caramac skin,...
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Blue Tit
As the story book harvest moon wanes between postcard-green meadows... Paridae songbirds lovingly weave nestling frameworks of art, dripped with Ivy...
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Cherry St. Sours (Poetry Monthly)
Sherbet sunset fizzes into a blurry rainbow of e-numbers over the diesel scented city-scape sink into the lullaby of matt-chalk smog be my bed...
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A Perfect Match
Karen Carson lay upon her back upon the roof of her apartment block, flying on Robodone, the slave drug; the legal, non-lethal but highly addictive...
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Dearly Beloved
Dearly beloved, We are gathered here today to mourn the loss of a relationship of two people who were very much, at one time, in love. The cause of...
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Where Has the Day Gone?
Carrying the next load of laundry down the stairs, I happen to glance out the window. There's a man, older, pasty, wearing a baseball cap and no...
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The Power of Love
Once, an infant boy was born and when his mother took him in her arms a beam of sun burst from his heart and shone, like a golden kiss, upon her face...
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She's In Love
I've not heard her play in here for a while She'd always be at the sessions and bring a smile To the old men at the table She'd sing soft as a dove...
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The Missing Piece Of The Puzzle
People said you were no good They said you never did the things you said you would They said unequivocally you weren't good news They said you weren'...
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To Live and Die - Chapter 5 / Time to Kill (1 of 2)
Bond crept in and waited for the door to swing shut behind him. With a smile spread across his cheeks he toed the heel of his oxfords off eagerly. He...
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To Live and Die - Chapter 4 / Radio Silence (1 of 2)
‘Dead sir?’ Bond queried, taking a long drag from his cigarette. He crossed his legs and slouched somewhat in the old chair. M lent forward. M nodded...
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