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Kings of Myth and Illusion
Well, this is a titular poem for a collection written after the fact. The collection is on here, here. https://www.abctales.com/collection/kings-myth-and-illusion or you could just click on the link at the bottom of the poem . Image is author's own from PD elements: source -wikipedia.
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Willow's Tail" 29 (gather the suspects)
The festival’s closing ritual had begun, the reception hall was lit with twinkling fairy lights and a banner strung across its impressive façade...
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Six Feet Underground
When my friend was a teenager, he started smoking pot. If you're wondering if my friend is still alive, sadly, he's not The pot that he smoked led...
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Nuages
This weeks IP: inspired by https://www.abctales.com/story/ewan/django and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRfcvs1VeIo
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Ugly Puggly 34
I met one of my out-of-work colleagues, Bob, in the lane. I’d stripped down to my T-shirt and felt the sun burn the top of my head and back of my...
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The Killer (Part 1)
Note: This story contains a graphic depiction of a deed that some readers may find upsetting or alarming. The story is an attempt to explain the...
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The Killer (Part 2)
CONTINUED FROM PART 1 Note: This story contains a graphic depiction of a deed that some readers may find upsetting or alarming. The story is an...
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Back In Kansas
Audio version at: https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/back-in-kansas-mp3 Back in Kansas Lightening zags across a cobalt horizon, splintered,...
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Leaving The Nest
This is a poem inspired by Kilb50's story: The Castle, about a young girl named Elowen. Such hankering memories when leaving home, embarking on...
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Diamonds of truth
I remember a child (about 8 years old) in Sunday School saying something like ‘It’s a good idea to say you believe in God – if it’s wrong you won’t...
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Sea Angels & Butterfly Kisses
Sometimes a man needs a brutal love rescue, in a tough love way. Then kissed, caressed and loved back to operational capacity. At what degree is a...
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I Walk Among Recordings
I Walk Among Recordings of life’s journal that juts out from shrubs with prickles to shackle you and erase any vanity that clings to you. Suddenly a...
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Ugly Puggly 33
‘Won’t the body start to stink?’ I clutched at my freshly made cup of Tetley’s. Ugly Puggly took his time answering. He was making porridge for...
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Curiosity Killed The Cat : A Day In The Life Of Alfred Muggins In Turkey (He Daydreams of the Rise and Fall of Empires)
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Curiosity Killed The Cat, but the lazy humans, having arrived in Turkey are quite happy to stay inside their compound of the hotel and pool, and the...
The Munro Academy Poltergeist
My new year's resolution was to write a ghost story every month in 2022. This is the fifth.
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Dodgy Betting
Country Parable
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Alienage
Feel my face; feel all too shaken In this state, feel all too naked Feel my roots they're all too twisted Know my fate; feel all too sacred. I fear...
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The Imaginers
written for kids in mind, who should keep hold of their imaginations as they get older.
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Django
Some days only Django will do... Image author's own... fault.
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Ode on the evergreen laurel - a Jubilee poem
Kumbaya me Lord, kumbaya. Kumbaya me Lord, kumbaya, me darlin' Clementine, found a peanut. It was rotten. Common wealth? A wreath. Six foot...
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