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The Horses of Wooldale Road (Part 2 of 3)
You can read part one here: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/horses-wooldale-road-part-1-3 The Horses of Wooldale Road (Part 2 of 3) The...
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Pirates of Privilege & Princess Rescues From Above
Follow me, live in the moment Put a pinch of salt in the palm of your hand Stick your tongue on it Slowly lick your way to the end of your fingers...
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A Lasting Impression
Sitting on the crest of a rainbow gives me access (feels like cool gel smells like floss candy its half-moon shape quivering – colours resplendent)...
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This man is on his way
This man doesn't need honey or jam or syrup from a can. This man doesn't need a thankless job or a till register to rob. This man doesn't need a...
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When I was a Blue Cowboy
I remember when I was a blue cowboy, waving red flags at the marshall. Assigned to shoot my pistol at aliens and strangers. I danced inside a...
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Ugly Puggly 40
I’d a fry-up for breakfast with all the works: mushroom, tomatoes and two potato scones. It was enough to sober me up. Not that I’d been drinking...
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Unthankfulness
I said: Why did you pluck me out? Why did you end my eden, my atlantis – as amethyst wrapped in cotton wool? He said: Did you not want to live? Were...
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Transitions of power, then and now
I wrote this analysis twenty eight years ago, when Newt Genrich and the Conservative Republicans wrested control of Congressional House of...
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Civilization is the principle and the ideal
Civilization which tends toward pacification is the needful ideal we must pursue. Regarding romance, let's say this; Let people live their lives and...
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Juneteenth Ruminations
In most minds, there can be no doubt that modernity's progress has liberated us all to a not insignificant degree; It has liberated us from...
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we the land
we the land it cannot be owned cannot be trapped behind badges and barricades the right belongs to all to celebrate the cycles of dark and light we...
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Dozing With The Radio On
(music ends) And, there. I always have a hard time hearing where that piece ends. That was Rocket J. Squirrel, playing Hahn’s “Mama Said” Etude. From...
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Oh Let me sleep
oh let me sleep i am so tired i can hardly keep my eyelids open and i am yawning as well too much time on my pc and the heat for the fan is getting...
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Life in a Nutshell
At the start it's daunting. A certain amount of taunting. Then years and years of flaunting. Juxterposed with jaunting. Shame it ends with haunting.
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Miss Incognito
Miss Incognito By Paul McCann The girl at reception makes the coffee and answers the calls on the telephone, then after work she’s off to do her show...
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Orderly Re-Union
We are puffed-up-with-pride grandparents watching our little ones in the backyard- full of energy crackling lightning bolts with daring on flying...
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The Journey. Part Two.
Having just seen the text on the group chat that my beloved Auntie died in the wee small hours, we knew it was coming but it was still a shock. Mum...
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The Journey. Part One.
My Mum and Auntie they were like twins, except my Mum was one year older. They had ten brothers and sisters. Although my Auntie was younger than my...
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Daddy's Little Girl
2002 Kate was a very studious girl. Unfortunately, due to health issues, she had to drop out of school at sixteen. Her father, Robert, was her idol...
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Father's Day 2022
Today is Father's Day but I have no father to celebrate this day with. Dad died nearly nine years ago on July 13, 2013. Dad did some terrible things...
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