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Ancient Festival
Still is night under festive Light, where brightly lit Overhanging trees frame Vision; carrying energetic Rhythm. Celebrate Winter Solstice, Balanced...
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You're only mid-life once
A couple of weeks ago I overheard someone say, ‘You’re only young once’. A well-used, but odd phrase, don’t you think, for aren’t we all each and...
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Hereafter
On the other side of the sky, at the back of the north wind, but together, wherever. Image author's own.
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The Press.
I decided to write today, I was going to write yesterday, but I had walked to the Town to buy a Christmas gift for my grandson, it was going to be a...
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Fair Green
De grass when it’s covered wit frost always gives me a good feeling. I like de look of it, and wunt to walk on it and hear it crunch, but it’s de...
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Familial Bliss
‘I’m so excited about going home!’ I admit to my boyfriend of three years, Ross. ‘It’ll be nice to finally meet your mom and Darragh in person and...
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Mince Pies.
Mince Pies. About a month ago, I really wanted a mince pie. When I went shopping, I would actually forget to buy it, I would see it advertised on...
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A Million Pounds.
If you had shown me a photo and asked me to study it close-up and asked me to say, “Who is it, for one million pounds?” I had just arrived in my...
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Fire
I have set him on fire. Poured petrol over him as he lay in bed. Held the plastic container upside down, shaking out every last drop. I struck a...
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Feast
Celebrating Messiah’s birth, or family time for relaxation, jollity and mirth – but will excess bring weariness, fractiousness, and dearth of cash and joy in January? [IP: on …
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The Last Christmas (Part Two of Two)
Part One at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/last-christmas-part-one-two The Last Christmas - Part Two of Two It had just turned midnight...
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A Hitch-Hiking Man 1962
I am parallel to any highway of leftover towns from a loving family long – long ago the trees are my guideposts & I follow whichever way they...
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Mudbath! (The Ultimate Day Trip Of All Possible Day Trips!) by Alfred N. Muggins (from his recent holiday in Marmaris, Turkey!) Part 3
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(The events and feelings described here actually occurred in May 2022) 16/7/22 Winding through the streets of Marmaris in the minibus, a couple of...
Ode on a Cockroach, Negev Desert, Israel
You scared me once, cockroach! But that was in the past. A distant memory, no more! You moved too fast and I hated you with a fierce lust for your...
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Letter to the unknown Mother of the Bronte sisters
Oh wise, wise Woman, unknown, unremembered. Lost to history. What a Woman you must have been. Unknown. Except by them, your Daughters. Clever girls...
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It's A Cracker! Isn't It?
Peregrine delivers Christmas cheer, virtually, whilst Prudence makes things go with a bang!
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The Last Christmas (Part One of Two)
The Last Christmas (Part One of Two) Ali sat stoically in his Toyota Prius, the engine ticking over as he waited. He would take a cigarette break at...
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Don't Worry
Don’t Worry good folks – it really ain’t so bad living on the street (except for rain & snow) someone said an old lady like me should be home...
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She's Paying The Price
An intoxicated man hit a woman's car when he decided to drive. She didn't die when her car was struck but her son didn't survive. She couldn't even...
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Remembered loves and unknown others
(This is a piece of fiction but with many connections to my own life and experience). Pleased that she’s ahead of herself this year Clara is writing...
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