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Addicted to . . . Love
He drank three times as much as me during our first date. ‘Yes please,’ I replied when twice he asked if I wanted crisps or nuts with my wine. He...
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Two Decades Without Jon Pertwee
You were an awesome actor but I regret to say that you died twenty years ago. First, you were Doctor Who and later you were Worzel Gummidge the...
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Switchback Ch19 pt2
Carter had watched three people leave the lodge and climb into the two Cherokees. The fat guy in the check shirt he now knew as Stu Malvern and was...
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Just Past Three in the Morning (22)
We all dressed up like lawyers. I looked at everyone, and none of us looked like ourselves. Shelley had grown up over the months – too fast, and for...
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The BC Adventure 40
December 4. 1922 Cedar Creek My own Lovey darling, I'm writing from a new residence, having moved up to the Office where I have an exclusive...
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BLASTED HEATH (Poetry Monthly)
Tormented twisted twigs On rotting trees Point to blackened sky With creaking fingers On trembling hands. Round shrouded moon Their tangled tresses...
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Kit-Cat 3: Kit-cat and The Magic Ball
"You'll never believe what just happened to me", said Kit-Cat climbing up and sitting on a branch next to his friend Mrs Hootowl. "Hmm?", thought Mrs...
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New Breath
My friend is hurting And the family too My words are lost Pray is all I can do Condolences may comfort Hugs and tender touches may sooth Lead and...
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'Catch me when you can...'
‘Catch me when you can…’ Dr. A. Sippitt washed his hearty breakfast of green figs and yoghurt down with a lukewarm cup of tea and slipped his...
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Sister's blisters
Sister's blisters Here we are, upon a swing you towering above me; smiles elevated by joyously rising bellows again and Again we jerk together ...
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The Rites of Spring
The Rites of Spring I was making my annual spring pilgrimage to Holy Cross Cemetery in Lackawanna, N.Y. It was one of those golden days of spring in...
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Chapters. No.2
Ingratiated republic of smiles and puissance Contained within the skin folds of your face; A glass that shatters into a million shards Of pained...
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If You're Happy And You Know It...
The pursuit of happiness...or rather, the avoidance of it, as far as the British are concerned.
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One day at a time
I cried yesterday. Great wracking sobs, the kind where you think you might suffocate between each one. I had been ok before, I'd been getting on,...
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CALIFORNICATION - (aka I CAN'T WRITE CACK-HANDED)
CALIFORNICATION - (aka I CAN'T WRITE CACK-HANDED) And she takes up the space on the screen Calmly deluding, invading the scene Surprisingly easily...
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Route 666
There's a number missing from the road-sign...
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Smoker
It is not long, not long now; it somehow drags, deep, drag on a cigarette. Vapour intoxicates your unblemished lungs and fills them. Within it swells...
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Kit - Cat 2 - Who wants to be a cat?
"If only I were human", sighed Kit-Cat to his fairy friend Sparklette one day as he sat on the branch of a tall tree in his enchanted forest. "Pah...
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An In-Depth Interview
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Just Past Three in the Morning (21)
The phone ringing, late at night, just after the stroke of midnight. And you know before you touch it, you know that something on the other end is...
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