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Hunger
You couldn’t blame us. We couldn’t help ourselves. Days and nights out in the desert, tramping through a wilderness of rocks and dirt, heat and sand...
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Golden Memories: TV Programmes Part Two
A few 1960's TV programmes are hard to forget, because they have rightly achieved cult status, and are now regularly repeated. These include The...
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Origins
My favourite subject at school was history, I just loved how things either evolved or was invented or happened by accident. I suppose everything has...
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The Maths Teacher
Mr. Wickes loved his maths, He set his boys on all the right paths. With logarithms and ninety degree angles, He knotted their brains in a variety of...
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Smoke
Above the roofs of the new builds, distant smoke emerged that morning...
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20.2 For Someone Special
At 4:09 pm, at 49° F, the glow of the sun in the cloudy sky caught her eyes through the bronze branches as she turned into Chambers Street. In thirty...
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Macrobiotic Mayhem
She’s only been here for three weeks. I regret every minute. Doing someone a favour. “Somewhere to stay while things are sorted out.” My kitchen is...
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retirement
retirement anything green and alive has been ripped out torn up scorched down and paved in mowing the lawn is now something you watch the neighbours...
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Reflections: Chapter Three.
The News Bulletin Lucasville Correctional Facility The wind wasn’t strong; more of a stiff breeze, but it was enough to play havoc with Alexandra...
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Sunday Morning, 3 a.m.
Odd... I quite understand if you don't like it. Image is free for non-commercial use from pxfuelhere.com
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UBI
The Universal Basic Income The universal or unconditioned basic income (UBI), also known as basic income or unconditional basic income, is a...
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Everyone is beautiful in the dark
Midnight claws at her nocturnal skin like a lover despised and that lie lay-strewn like Confetti across your bedroom floor. Another illicit notch on...
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A Recipe For Disaster
Ambition and selfishness.
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Aunt Tilly
Water and bare walls, reluctant bread and butter when I was hungry, entire conversations that failed to admit my existence. A visit to my aunt Tilly...
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Char Goes To Witch School -Episode Five
Char and her classmates were in disgrace. Miss Broomstick-Mubruoyup was not happy with them for being mean to a fellow classmate. They were all kept...
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It’s Good To Be Alive
It’s Good To Be Alive By Paul McCann On the footsteps of grace walking at an easy pace a warm wind whispers past with a soft touch to the face ain’t...
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20.1 For Someone Special
“Savy!” she called, “Are you home?” “In the bathroom, honey!” “You’ve got mail!” she dropped off her mules by the door and closed. “From whom?” “...
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Death and the Cigarettes
Death was smoking a cigarette. Smoke was seeping through his cloak, surrounding him in a dark mist. No harm in smoking if you're Death, I thought to...
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The Inglorious Years
It took two years to even be vaguely sure She was in the right place, constantly not phoning her parents, I will do this on my own. Travelling alone...
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Soul Food
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Having fasted, Jesus, hungry heard the tempter tell him to ‘Turn the stones to bread, for You are God the...
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