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Frankenplot: "He Did Fine" (1)

The Corolla had 184,000 miles. The heat worked on high or not at all. She kept it on high. She drove. He rode shotgun with the flowers in his lap. In...
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The Things We Keep

Image by Ryan MCGuire from Pixabay
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Old Walls - Part 3
Meanwhile back at the cottage Roz had just let in her Tuesday client, Jenny. They chatted in the kitchen for a bit like old friends. ‘Who cuts your...
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Knowing The Thing
You are a lava lamp in my chest The gloop travelling up and down Now, I might explode with love Or I might fade to black Sometimes my eyes pass over...
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A Seasonal Dance
Sense hushed switch of summer; gradually slipping into autumn, branches lively waltz, tossed... shift of irresistible power, Stirring energy...
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Autumn Release

Autumn is a time of release...
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The Eggshell War
The Queen’s breakfast egg is ruined again, the King’s archery goes awry, and by 10.09 a national disaster has struck. The Eggshell War. Chapter One...
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Cleaner’s Guild

Very true story, pic is my own
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Everything shower
She's in there now.
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Old Walls - Part 2
Simon woke early, feeling anxious about volunteering at the working party. Roz was still sleeping, snoring faintly. She was a late riser and an...
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Bloody, Brawling Business CH10
Tiro crouched down next to Newton and reached out his hand towards him, but it was instantly slapped away. Newton stormed off down the hall and sat...
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Maria at 30,00 Feet

Shhh. Maria is asleep. Maria is our seat mate on a flight from San Diego to New York. I do not know Maria, but she took the time to introduce herself...
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Sophrayni's Quiet Hunt Chapter 10.
Chapter 10. Confrontation. “This way then,” said Tess. The passage narrowed, stone pressing close. Tess led the way, her steps light despite the...
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Amanderella and the Mystery of Wittering Crags. Chapter 11.
Chapter Eleven. Tidying up. The room let out a collective sigh, not of fear, but of weary resignation. Mrs Plover muttered something about “old men...
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God’s perfect little time machines
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Rose and sunset dark, the stars and satellites spin above. Mists and fogs linger moistening, ploughlands, fields and bogs, Displace the whisperings...
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On Simeon’s Day

Bulgarian folklore tells that storks live in human form at the other end of the Earth, but the women cannot give birth to children there. So they all come to our world in spring in the shape of storks to make their babies. They then return to their world on 1 September, which is known as the day of Simeon the Ploughman and is the traditional beginning of autumn.
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Enoch walked with God …

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] He walked with God upon this earth, his King-Companion with him, his Maker-Friend whose will he loved –...
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Present, Fifteen (7)

Anne Prevette came and got her out of the gym. She did not say anything in front of the children. She crouched down at the edge of the half circle...
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Remembering good Queen Bess
Farewell and Adieu, Queen Elizabeth As I watched several hours of Queen Elizabeth’s State Funeral this morning, I was taken by the full panoply of...
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Frankenplot: "It Will Come For You!"
Laura stacked the books from the book return onto the library’s trolley cart. “Any plans for Halloween?” her co-worker Zed asked as he picked up a...
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