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X - There Are People Buried In The Rubble

A clear signal to Felicity&;#8217;s cat. Your day is done. Time to move on.

W - Shape

It started with a joke. I'm refitting Miriam's shop, so we ended up spending a lot of time together. It already felt as if I'd spent half my life...

Whispering at the Moon

The boy looked up at the moon, and whispered a prayer for Susan. "I know you're not God," said the boy, "but whenever I see your light, I imagine God...

V - Non-flying Doctors

Just as the Wright brothers invented flight Uncle Ronny claimed to have invented the fear of flying. Uncle Ronny was a tiny man with huge ears, just...

Underachieving Over Distance

He likes to ask questions. Why is the sun flat? Where does the wetness in clothes go? Does gravity make the first half hour go quicker than the...

The Last Song On An Album

A car knocked down my son

Rainbow Weddings

as if wishing hard might make him real

Possessive Apostrophe

The small space between you and something that belongs to you.

One day / Leaving Ruth

She wobbled the flesh that bulged over the elastic of her black knickers.

Never Be Mine

You'll never be mine my love Never be mine All the waiting in the world There isn't the time A thousand lives between us now Voices places times I...

M.C. Ecsher Stories

A holiday montage

L - Just a Little Life

How the other half lives

Jungle Half a Mile from Home

There are two reasons men kill, lust and money, or the disciples of either. Animals know neither. The beast kills for food or survival. Crawling...

I wanted a preacher

I wanted a preacher. I hadn't held the church in much esteem since an altercation I'd had back when I was a choirboy. Yes, I was a choirboy, an angel...

Happy Dave Get a Makeover

When Happy Dave successfully removed his endocrine system, it quivered beside him for a moment then collapsed on to the tiles and seeped between the...
Cherry

Kipling was right

A celebration of Bertie and Plum

In Praise of Atheism

Sonnet about atheism

Ghosts

Boxes are being moved about downstairs.

E isn't for - Days of Grace

They looked like the figures from her mother's barometer-clock

Deliquescence

A fishing hamlet struggles to come to terms with a terrible accident.

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