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They built it in polished light. Marble without residue. Doors that closed cleanly. His desk faced intake. A girl becomes a coordinate. He writes it...
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Somewhere: Chapter 1 (Pt 2)

Somewhere, in the fading light, a darkness is spreading. And the ancient walls look on.
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Somewhere: Chapter 1 (Pt 1)

Everything's got to start Somewhere. Even when it's probably better for everyone if it doesn't.

Another attempt at Bloody, Brawling Business CH1 (Part 2/2)

Newt sat up on his knees and looked at Ferdinand for a second, expecting him to reach out to help him. When Ferdinand made no attempt to do as such,...

Another attempt at Bloody, Brawling Business CH1 (part 1/2)

The feeling that came with knowing someone would happily burn the world for his sake was the most precious feeling to Newton. It made him willing to...

Banished To Earth Book Two, Splintered Souls, (20)

Chapter 53 With every invasive fairy breath, Nikki’s essence peeled away from her body, hovered between life and death until hazy sunlight filtered...
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The Dragons' Lair Chapter 9

Chapter Nine. Home. “Home at last,” said the Mountain Dragon leader. “But there is no food here.” “It isn’t far to the lake where we camped the other...
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Amanderella and the Haunted Mill Chapter 9

Chapter 9. Repairs. “Of course,” Lady Honoria Pimm-Ducket said, dabbing her lips with a napkin the size of a small sail. “Now then, Lady Gottsnobbler...
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Hiding from, or Hiding in …

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] … Some thought the writer sheltered there in rocky cleft in rainstorm …

Hospital Haiku Set

As morphine drips- drips - drips through my I.V. hand-cuffs I contemplate all Freed from the outside's need to accomplish and to hustle, I "see''...
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The Less Miserables Break a Board (3)

She landed the six-stair on a Tuesday in late February. No fanfare. No audience. Just her and the stairs and the hotdog board that had become weirdly...
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The Less Miserables Break a Board (2)

She figured it out three days later, sitting in her bedroom, staring at the broken board. The room was small—barely bigger than a closet, really,...
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The Less Miserables Break a Board (1)

The board snapped clean in half on the third attempt. Zara stood at the top of the six-stair, the broken pieces scattered below her on the concrete...
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Darlings

Darlings And we are talking about flights. Of longitude, latitude and madness. How this triplet can swarm over our canals of doubt — pierce through...
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Diagnosis Of My Appointment

Dear diary...Thursday June 18th will be a date I won't forget in a long time, it's written down on about four calendars in our house and in two...
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The Dragons' Lair Chapter 8

Chapter Eight. The Ice Cave. Sarriette was very glad of the warm cloak. The further north they flew, the colder the air became. Eventually Jak landed...
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Amanderella and the Haunted Mill Chapter 8

Chapter 8. Lunch. Amanderella pushed the lantern closer to the whiskered face belonging to a small, dusty, slightly offended polecat. It blinked up...
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Disillusioned

Some time ago in a reply to Celticman's blog, I mentioned I used to fancy Sean Bean, but since he started advertising Yorkshire Tea I couldn't take...

Banished To Earth Book Two, Souls Adrift (19)

Davin stepped back and looked around, “Huh? That’s odd.” Tucker dropped several feet behind him. “Ah, what’s not, odd around here?” He half-joked. “...
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Bron-51

Continued from Chapter 50: Bron-50 | ABCtales The footpath disappeared at the edge of the spinney; there was no obvious way up. Grace pointed with...
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