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The Saturday Boy Novel (Chap.4 & 5)
CHAPTER FOUR – WE’RE FRIENDS AGAIN TODAY IS going to be special. I feel it in my bones. It has been a good summer, so far, a little too dry though...
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Split Atoms and Broken Suns
woke up to find the sun hidden behind thick cloud and lightning playing on the horizon
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The Saturday Boy (Chap.3)
CHAPTER THREE LEARNING TO DO THINGSWE WERE on our way to a different place this Saturday. A forest of trees leaned over us like a warm blanket. I...
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You Must Remember This

A short poem about things that happened two-thirds of a lifetime ago... image source picclick.com no known copyright issues.
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Prothalamium
Prothalamium In verse seven we could tie the knot perhaps. Said he after his thirteen relapse. Was he not his plangent self? She entertained for a...
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The Saturday Boy Novel (Chap. 2)
CHAPTER TWO – A STRANGER RETURNS IT’S OKAY. Take it easy. Butterflies are swooping around inside my stomach. And my palms are sweaty. Or is it just...
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Odyssey of a Prodigal Stepson Part Three (rewrite)

Recap: Jamie was thrown into thorns by bullies at a local park becasue he refused to give them the name of the person that got them into trouble...
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part 8
M ary looked at one shoe. At first, she tried pulling the strap from the middle, like a handle, but it only made it go thin and hurt her fingers...
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A Botanical Conundrum

Indecision.
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Teaching Birds to Sing
We noticed that there are so few Regent Honeyeaters that they don’t get the chance to hear each other. They copy other birds and sing their songs...
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The Saturday Boy Novel (Chap. 1)
A Fiction Novel for Reluctant Readers (12-18) Word Count = 18,513 THE SATURDAY BOY By Richard & Esther Provencher (c) 2010-2021) In Memory of:...
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Julio Ceasar
Julio Caesar All my money is spent Claps do nt pay the rent All the bloody money is spent Claps do nt pay the rent all the money's spent on just...
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Conversations About Tarkovsky in a Copenhagen Restaurant

A waiter with a thing for Tarkovsky.
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Footsteps on Mars

In the dead of an iridescent moonlit night, in an amphitheatre of curious crickets, chirping in the rattling reed bush, I am camped under a haven of...
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Sooz 5

Better get goin’, or we’ll miss the train,’ Badger had to crane his neck to speak in Eddie’s ear. A DJ dressed as Elvis but wearing an orange wig appeared and he’d pumped the volume up, flinging in a medley of ABBA classics beginning with Winner Take it All and working his way back to Waterloo to get the girls dancing.
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Sunrise

Dear diary...Tuesday 27 th April 2021. Awoke at 5.30am, couldn't get back to sleep, got up went to our back bedroom where I write. Sat at my desk...
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An Unwelcome Visitor

An old lag and not "The Saint"
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Caper On

It's not night-time, it's not midsummer, but this dream is a nightmare. Licence CCA-2.0 source wikipedia.org. creator Matt Brown
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Covid Optimism
South Africa Freedom Day Today we celebrate the freedom of our young rainbow nation and our beautiful land and give thanks and gratitude in prayer...
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