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Thunder in paradise (part 3)

As each of them looked at each other they knew that one of two things; either Lucas was behind both murders or there was a killer amongst them. No...
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Still Light

It was still light but a star pushed towards darkness, like a wild flower refusing to stay in the earth, above the city, above the river, cool in a...
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Suicide and Revenge

My brother fell in love with a lady who was trying to make her ex-boyfriend jealous. She only pretended to love him and we were all shocked when he...

Life and Times of a Priestess : Ch.14 : The New Lovers : Part 1 : Section 1

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Danella, the Priestess of distant Pirion, and Valery, the rich manufacturer, invite her new friends back to Valery's Town House, but only some will accompany them. This is set in an alternative world, not dissimilar to our own.

Thunder in paradise (part 2)

As Mike wandered the beach going into every hut, he knew to be occupied he realised that each and every one of his ‘guests’ were awake watching the...
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Ugly Puggly 65

I’d been sleeping in the Bongo. It was a better home than some of the guys I drunk with during the day had down by the canal. We were off grid, near...
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Heatwave

UK heatwave sees temperatures above 40C for first time
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I had to give you away

now i lay you down to sleep please remember me now i lay you down to sleep i am thinking you won't remember me but every second of every day i will...

Summer heart

it's so hot in the summer heat i toss and turn and stil i can't sleep i get up and look at the window and see the heart coming up from the pavement...
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Watching the Elephant

The strange relationship between our animalistic nature and our Olympian pretensions takes many forms. The anthropomorphic tendancies of some pet...
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Any Hard Task

It was still an up-hill pull with determined will to fully fulfil the task undertaken and reach the top not stop or flop or trip or slip or sleep,...

The Gate

This gate has kept me safe you see when times were bad it look after me to know that it was a lock was so reassuring to me this gate made be only...

Thunder in paradise (part 1)

Mike Reid, of Reid and associates, was quite aware that his employees were doing their darndest to help make his law company the best in town. He had...
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The Art of Noises : A Futurist's Manifesto

“In antiquity, life was nothing but silence. Noise was really not born before the 19th century, with the advent of machinery. Today noise reigns supreme over human sensibility.” Luigi Russolo Not for much longer. I am equivocal about that. Image is from google books, the book is out of print and in the public domain.
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Remus and The Wolf Part 1

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Tales from The Enchanted Forest of Secret Wishes Tale One Remus and the Wolf Part One Remus Elderberry’s backpack danced on his shoulders.The brittle...
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Ugly Puggly 64

We walked over to Molly’s. It had been warm that day and I wanted to stretch my legs. Ugly Puggly gave us a couple of slices of blue-moulded bread to...
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Detritus

Tommy was lying dead on the floor in his condemned flat that stank of rotting flesh. There was dead cat by his side that probably took a few days to...

A Question, Of Sorts

Archibald drives home a point and Josiah misses his turn
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Reminiscence

Pip was guilt ridden. She couldn’t meet the eyes of her mother, Kathy, or aunt, Lorraine, after Sinead’s death. Pip couldn’t forgive herself for...
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