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Warrior at Warpspeed- Part 5

At first Raider had thought it was simply thunder that was roaring in the skies but then, looking up he saw the ghost of green scaly skin and then a...

Warrior at Warpspeed - Part 4

"So that old fool Zophos has located the Warp Warrior", said Vorgia, the Dictatrix; a black clad, pale skinned Galactic Queen, gazing into the waters...
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Another life

“So class” Says the English teacher, “Today we will be continuing our analysis of Shakespeare’s...?” She raises her eyebrows at the group of half...

The End of the Line

The dead march of time Brings hardest working engines Grinding to a halt Descending slowly, With a rusty clatter and Declining body Sun burns flaking...

Westering Home

The smell of the sea As salt on rusting engines, Driving to the coast Descent of the great Chuffing worm, hungry to find Food hard by the cliffs...

Persephone of the Tunnels

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Law of midwinter, Tunnel of the shortest day Swallowing the light As Persephone Descends with Hades, the shrill Whistle cries for light Descent to...
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The Baobab Tree (4 )

Love in the moonlight.
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membership of the math group

Mutter of mathematics The path of a dumpling is never clearer The sum of all yearning Song of caged children –from long ago Rhyming the reasons...
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Promise

If I hung on for your promise My skeleton would slip Through the noose All my teeth Would shine On the floor Waiting for your feet To crush them into...

The Ransom

A man had to be born perfect, live perfect and die perfect to pay the ransom for Adam's sin. Jesus Christ was that man and he died so that people can...

Urgent Mirrors

Hello friends. It's nice to be back. I've been stealing mirrors and seeing men about horses for the last 10 days. I subscribe to the Vonnegutian...

a factual statement

Worship of an individual is a barren farce.... but if you want to talk individuals, if it weren't for me and 'the purple revolution' I started,...

Holborn

An icy draft swept down the escalator shaft. He had no choice but to continue upwards. It drew him forth to Holborn.
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The survivors of the Jonathan problem

It was a stormy night, but somehow I managed to fall asleep, in spite of the wind hurling mercilessly at my rooftop and all the accompanying noise...

Magic--The Gathering

Magic—The Gathering Innistrad was weary, he’d travelled—first he went to the Devil’s Causeway and played his pipes across the water. He played the ‘...
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Musca Domestica (Poetry Monthly)

You gotta love the House Fly, after all if it wasn't for us they probably wouldn't exist.

How the film “Stand by Me” shows children are stronger than we think

Do some children cope better with being overlooked by their parents than others? I found myself wondering that after watching Rob Reiner’s film Stand...

All about the terrible freedom of adulthood

As they say, “If I may be personal for a moment ...” It is now thirty years since I left school and, when I went to visit some twenty-five years ago...

The importance of teaching computer programming to young children

According to a report in the Daily Telegraph last year, British schoolchildren would, under a new curriculum, learn how to write simple computer...

The BC Adventure 10

Jan 15, 1921 Dear Daddy, Peter has started at the local school called North Vesuvius School. It is tiny with only 8 students, all in one room. It is...

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