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Gran's House Haiku
Cold cracked windowsill Plastic flowers stand still in swan shaped china vase. ( On recalling my gran's house in the 1970s)
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Lerwick Haiku
Shining silver sea Early morning, Lerwick Bay Seal swimming shallows.
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Bron-33
Continued from Chapter 32: Bron-32 | ABCtales Grace tapped gently on the door of Georgetta’s third-floor flat. “Come in … door’s not locked.” Her...
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The Constant Birth
Another one from my 1968 notebook and one of my sketches done in 2021. The Constant Birth In times of toil and days like these with summers sun and...
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McCalliog and his hens (4)
I phoned Tilly straight away, as soon as I left Meirson’s. “The McCalliog?” she said. “What’s a McCalliog?” “The painting. The painting of ducks that...
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Chapter 4: The Journey Begins.
Chapter 4: The Journey Begins. Amanderella counted the coins in her purse and quickly realised she was going to need more than she had raised with...
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Ridgeline - Part Fifteen: The Reckoning
The cold had a texture. Not the absence-of-heat cold from earlier — the goosebumps, the prickling, the muscles clenching. That cold had been the body...
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Ridgeline - Part Fourteen: After
The flashlight was on the ground where he'd dropped it. She could see the beam — orange now, not the white it had been, the batteries dying, the cone...
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The Donaldson Controversy (5)
Watson’s position as best-in-class didn’t last, however. For the next lesson we were greeted by yet another change of lecturer. “Where is Prof...
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The Donaldson Controversy (4)
“Variable quality,” Prof Ambrose addressed the class. “Very variable quality.” He was feeding back on our first essays. “Watson, you’ve quoted large...
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