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Capture Happiness
Capture Happiness Held in the place where it always abides. Here in the presence, often absent. There's a yearning to be apprehended. And to bring...
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An Ulterior Motive
An Ulterior Motive The two companions travelling as Mr Francis Goodchild and Mr Thomas Idle settled themselves into the plush, button backed seating...
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16.1 Active Measures
A week later, Colonel Ram received a fairly large package from Moscow. As a very methodical person, he cut open the package with extreme care and...
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The Malediction of the Moneyed
Oran had seen some success over the years with articles showing up in Ireland’s Own and The Sacred Heart Messenger but whenever over the course of...
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Swan Song
Swan Song The mirror was cracked and smeary. Some of the lights around its edge flickered as though trying to send some sort of Morse Code message...
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Yarns and Yawns
A good start with Bonkers TV today. A certifiable bloke popped up asking the questions. Every point made was accompanied with windmill gestures (not...
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Arrowhead
Arrowhead Burnley late. Serrated spring showers twist in from the west. A Bradford train delayed as I wait — curating my minutes of sorrow. Earlier...
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They have decided they might get a dog
It had been their ‘on the way home from work’ pub conversation. Let’s both make a list of pros and cons. Long walks in parks hand in hand, saying ‘...
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Marc with a c
He reads out the long number of his card, the sort code, the expiry date, ‘422, Natwest, Marc with a c, Martin with a y, Jonsson with no h and two ns...
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(two tall mountains)
A series of postcards of mountain ranges, the Appalachians and the Southern Alps, all of them stamped and posted to an address in Glasgow’s Southside...
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Five days before he was crucified
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] The King, a kind and gentle King, rides in upon an ass – a borrowed ass – he nothing owned: The prophecy had...
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15.2 The Silver Fox
After two hours, he was steered to the minister’s private office. The walls of the entrance hall and the rest of the interior walls were painted in...
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When Did Our World Become SO Complicated?
Over the years, we have bought cheap new cookers always gas. Usually when we have bought them, they have a dent in them or a scratch on it somewhere...
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Ralph Monkton Lives!
Okay, a bit of cheek, as in not being quite a nonce word, but I may be forgiven for inventing a nonce character, who has at times since come in handy. This is a (mostly) a true story, the facts have only been changed to enhance poetic licence.
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Nyukamyum
Our nonce today comes from an ancient Aramaic idiom whose origin goes back to the very emergence of homo sapiens. The slogan became partially back in...
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Boy meets girl
Boy meets girl. First week at uni. Boy and girl indifferent to each other. Boy introduces girl to another boy. Boy meets another girl. Girl drinks...
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Wordrush, thoughtcess
Shoot from the hip, quick have your say so many openings to comment today, don’t pause for thought, or listen – you ought to think of the reasons...
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Is this the real life?
These are the most beautiful moments of his day. When the blue-white light falls gently and benevolently on the worn cherry wood parquet floor. So...
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15.1 The Silver Fox
Angelozzi Tetriverdzi was born to a poor family in the village of Mamati in Guria, western Georgia, on 25 th January 1928. A hardworking lad who...
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