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The Caretaker
The church and the shadow of the church upon him. A landgrown mass of cobbled stone, it rose up in crooked angles from the ground. Fragments of the...
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The Brothers
He tied the knot tight around his brother's wrists and thread the rope through the loop and pulled it tighter again. It took only a few moments for...
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The Ragdoll
The Ragdoll. Chapter One. The Ragdoll The village of Othermoor was so small it hardly deserved to have a name at all. It was just a small collection...
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Amanderella and the Haunted Mill Chapter 10
Chapter 10. The Society. Back at the Crooked Lantern, the members of the Society for the Preservation of Lower Widdersham Mill awaited Amanderella’s...
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Posted and Packing
Another pathetic poem about an old bloke who misses his Dad, and the opportunities to engage with him that he missed. There, if that doesn't encourage you all, nothing will.
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:::plots
They built it in polished light. Marble without residue. Doors that closed cleanly. His desk faced intake. A girl becomes a coordinate. He writes it...
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Somewhere: Chapter 1 (Pt 2)
Somewhere, in the fading light, a darkness is spreading. And the ancient walls look on.
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Somewhere: Chapter 1 (Pt 1)
Everything's got to start Somewhere. Even when it's probably better for everyone if it doesn't.
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Another attempt at Bloody, Brawling Business CH1 (Part 2/2)
Newt sat up on his knees and looked at Ferdinand for a second, expecting him to reach out to help him. When Ferdinand made no attempt to do as such,...
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Another attempt at Bloody, Brawling Business CH1 (part 1/2)
The feeling that came with knowing someone would happily burn the world for his sake was the most precious feeling to Newton. It made him willing to...
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Banished To Earth Book Two, Splintered Souls, (20)
Chapter 53 With every invasive fairy breath, Nikki’s essence peeled away from her body, hovered between life and death until hazy sunlight filtered...
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The Dragons' Lair Chapter 9
Chapter Nine. Home. “Home at last,” said the Mountain Dragon leader. “But there is no food here.” “It isn’t far to the lake where we camped the other...
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Amanderella and the Haunted Mill Chapter 9
Chapter 9. Repairs. “Of course,” Lady Honoria Pimm-Ducket said, dabbing her lips with a napkin the size of a small sail. “Now then, Lady Gottsnobbler...
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Hiding from, or Hiding in …
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] … Some thought the writer sheltered there in rocky cleft in rainstorm …
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Hospital Haiku Set
As morphine drips- drips - drips through my I.V. hand-cuffs I contemplate all Freed from the outside's need to accomplish and to hustle, I "see''...
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The Less Miserables Break a Board (3)
She landed the six-stair on a Tuesday in late February. No fanfare. No audience. Just her and the stairs and the hotdog board that had become weirdly...
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The Less Miserables Break a Board (2)
She figured it out three days later, sitting in her bedroom, staring at the broken board. The room was small—barely bigger than a closet, really,...
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The Less Miserables Break a Board (1)
The board snapped clean in half on the third attempt. Zara stood at the top of the six-stair, the broken pieces scattered below her on the concrete...
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Darlings
Darlings And we are talking about flights. Of longitude, latitude and madness. How this triplet can swarm over our canals of doubt — pierce through...
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Diagnosis Of My Appointment
Dear diary...Thursday June 18th will be a date I won't forget in a long time, it's written down on about four calendars in our house and in two...
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