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Elytra 3
March 76AGF 5pm 'Do you understand?' The voice was strangely weak for one with so much power. 'Oh, yes. I understand all too well.' The Doctor sat...
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Praying to galaxy
I have to restrain myself, not to let you see me in tears. I pretend to ignore you. Try to stop thinking of you. Only blame myself that I have no...
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The predestined affinity
Long, long time ago, a young scholar arranged to marry his lovely betrothed. Everything was well prepared on schedule. When the day came, the bride...
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wheels to rotors
in the chrysalis of shock we change - made to fight for self respect or flight on wings of fear high above what once we held dear. All the DNA that...
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Triple B
It’s not a credit rating, nor an investment grade product with a higher risk yield rate of return. Nor a bundled junk bond portfolio, you can’t buy...
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Night time tea
‘Night time’ tea and candles, matches to light, light catches your eyes, head heavy on my chest, trying not to move. I know you are so comfortable...
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Choices
We often looked in wonder at the strands of steel track which meandered off into the unknown- ten year olds in the 1950’s knew it led to fame &...
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Elytra 2
4 Saturday 17 May 72AGF midnight At the stroke of midnight, Steven opened his left eye and climbed carefully out of his bed in the long dormitory,...
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Discombobulation : PutinTimes Thoughts From Alfred N.Muggins
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c.8/4/22 Methinks this particular revelation from the time when I was looking after Henry VIII’s throne for him, when he was away, might well prove...
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Trees
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Trees The trees stand at the edge of the garden fenced off from the Nature reserve. Tall thin red branched trees, slowly turning to brown. The spring...
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Elytra - an extract
One thread extracted from a sort of dystopian novel from 2015, following the genesis of two characters. 1 Wednesday March 26 72AGF 9.30am 'It's not...
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Bonnie Prince Charlie in London, 1750
Years after Culloden, in the despondent London fog, the fat, failed, drunken Stuart indulged his ancestral homeland with an unbidden visit. The Young...
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indigo
In-dig O, Earth, our slow whirled world here, find waiting flowers of Love everlasting safe-kept all year for two weeks in May, every year whatever...
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Vocies Part Three
'Weeks had gone by since this meeting, and still the legend's night-searches to the slums had made no progress. The places were hellish; black as a...
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Five In a Race
The latest Inspiration Point gave me an opportunity to rework a piece that had been inspired by a New Testament passage.This time I chose the five senses.
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Felonious Tongue-Twister
First and fleetest ran the fleecers as the sheriff’s ambush fell flushing gamblers from false gaming – fake their loaded dice, the fleeced now...
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The Past, Passed #2
It's strange the things that are remembered. The arbitrary slice of a mind dismembered. I always loathed the slippery prune. Never got around to...
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Drugs - Where's the harm? - 2
After 12 years out of hospital and leading an independent life in the community I went down with post-covid psychosis and had 4 weeks back in. I have...
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