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Twice Told Tales
Sorry, did I already tell you that story? In a community like ours at Spring Run, where most of us are “well over 39,” many of us tell stories over...
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Totentanz
image is PD source wiki commons. Now that Netanyahu is intent on his own Crime of the Century. I thought I'd put all my Guignol, Teutonic Mediaeval, Holocaust, Apocalyptic (basically anything that mentions Totentanz) in the same collection. Don't wait up, it may take some time.
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Mono Log
First of all, let's call it prosetry. Well, I've been playing with this one for well over 10 years. My normal mode of working is give the keyboard a bash and then dash. Those I do fiddle with, I rarely improve. However, I've had a go with this... Regarding the quoted/allusory material, I would say that this is the upper (or do I mean lower??) limit of acceptable, but what do I know. If anyone's worried, I'll take it down.
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Embrace
Embrace Your inner peace, now smothered in flames, Of anticipation; the unveiling of a virgin bride. Kindle in volcanic ashes. Causes chaos to riddle...
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Holding The Country To Ransom.
Jane’s car failed its MOT, so it has been taxis to and from work. Her taxi is £12 to work and £12 back. Sadly her car has been in the garage for over...
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Fidelity
In my lifetime, I have known many fascinating women. Some of them saw in me gifts that I didn't have and if I did have them I didn't want to share...
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American Eclipse
We were East of the Darkness line and we didn't have glasses, so I was less excited than I should have been. Lynn was at the store shopping when...
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Pastries with Pattie
Pastries with Pattie For the last dozen years or more, we have made it our custom to stop by the Panera Bread Company, in the Coconut Mall Complex in...
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Another Year
More odes from the crypt... It's about... 6 lines too long - or short, I don't know. Image is from pxhere.com
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Mirrors for Princes
(Brunellus and) The Mirror of Fools is a satire written by Nigel de Longchamps sometime around the turn of the 12th Century. What is this about? Hold it up to the mirror... it won't help. More old stuff. Image is PD
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A Devil of a Man (14) - On the Throw of a Dice
An eye on the main chance. Image from Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported - Attribution: Walters Art Museum license.
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- 82 reads
Eclipse
Eclipse Clouds in a dawn sky seen through stoical eyes can sometimes seem like ethereal carriers of innermost angst. Maybe there is a silent...
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The Rag Doll's Clothes (I Am Not Invisible)
Photograph is from wiki commons - unfortunately - taken in 2006, I wonder where this woman is now? Is she even alive? A large proportion of the UK's homeless are ex-military personnel. Licence cc-by-sa-2.0.
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I READ THE BABBLE
my occupation ? minister many weddings I have led "I now pronounce you, man and wife" so many times I've said but late in life, I must confess...
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Undercover Agent 3
I moved into the boy’s room. Denton had warned me that this might happen and had given me clear instructions of what to do, there was no point my...
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Managing Political Campaign
Managing Political Campaigns Over dinner one evening, a friend asked me what all of this “campaign stuff” was all about. They had apparently been...
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Beachcomber
I remember a time, thirty thousand years ago, when I felt something.
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Holding it In
Through your eyes your body releases pain..
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