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Troubles
The wee light oan the answer machine’s flashin when ah get back in fae the shoaps. Bloody pathetic, ah know, but it gies me a wee tinge ay excitement...
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The Office Goth
My name is Lorraine Denning, I am a retired office manager and I like to think, an amateur author, not published yet, but there are lots of websites...
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Trespass
The signs told me it was trespass and the adults of my childhood warned me it was dangerous and to play so close to the line could leave me mute and...
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A Candle and the Wind
In which Josiah and Archibald debate the merits (or otherwise) of complementary therapies.
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The highwayman
When summer’s fingers next caress the nascent earth I will become a highwayman, weaving a great dappled stallion between the tailback of camper-vans...
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METHOD OF THINKING
We all know and are aware of the fact that there is a method or a way of doing everything ; even from a small act to a complex one. Unless we adopt a...
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19.4 Thistledown
After lunch, Thomas Cyril took her to a private lounge attached to the master bedroom. There were two chaises placed on a thick rug. She sat down...
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WebWorld (5.6)
We were under water. Or it felt as if we were something like that. We were through the looking glass, out the back end of the wardrobe, on the other...
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Cowardly Terrorists
Cowardly terrorists caused many people a great deal of sorrow. On September 11, 2001, 2,996 people would have no tomorrow. Many people died because a...
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WebWorld (5.5)
Seth and co took us down a rugged route into the bush. It wasn’t designed even for four-wheel drive vehicles, and we bounced around, jostled and...
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Paths Trodden
So familiar. While it had only been an hour for the locals, months had passed since Lore was last there and yet still it felt like only moments. They...
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Celestial Gauntlet
Rocks everywhere. The Destiny was ducking and weaving through the asteroid belts surrounding Tay’s distress signal with the elegance of a trained...
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- 265 reads
Hitting The Bottle
He killed his family when he stepped on the throttle. It was because he couldn't stop hitting the bottle. Because of his drinking problem, his family...
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Forever Winter
Alex blinked at me, staring at me as if I had something on my face but he didn’t want to tell me. Finally he proclaimed “Well then, that settles it-I...
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The Quay Staircase
I believe this poem's copyright was stolen from me. It was first published in 2003 by Poetry Now. The Quay Staircase Marked by an ancient symbol,...
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Vincent
I saw you in a flower, The brightest, sunniest one there is. I saw you in a landscape, So green, so yellow, so ever blue, With red-rooved houses and...
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19.3 Thistledown
“Linda Linz,” she uttered, “it’s a wild guess,” she reached for the bag to pick some photos, “I can’t prove it and it may never be known unless she...
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Twin Towers
Remembering 9/11
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Disenchantment 39
***** “Pull over there,” said Mark. That’s Oren’s car. The other is Malbourne’s.” Hornblende pulled over on the opposite side of the road and they...
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WebWorld (5.4)
As we drove out, I allowed myself to hope that there’d be nothing there, that we’d reach the commune, and find that they’d all just packed up and...
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