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The outline
Some dreams never arrive, and yet they leave a trace - the clean-edged hollow of what might have been. We speak of emptiness as if it’s nothing, but...
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Not All Pianos Have 88 Keys
10th March 2025 Dear Jon, It has been an age since we spoke way back in the wilderness of Covid. I write from a proper desk this time, not some...
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Something To Tell The Grandkids.
Every year my wife, kids and myself go on holiday to the same place. We go there every Summer, our neighbours might think we are a pest, but we are...
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Please Follow My Instructions ( For This You Will Need a Blood Orange)
i) There is a blood orange on the table but it is not for eating. Citrus sinensis. Blood oranges are the result of a spontaneous genetic mutation...
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Fall Haiku
Leaves on fire hanging from black boughs, burning colorful deaths; cool, living air
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I'll be leaving
Don't matter what you say or do I ant going to stay with you you ask me what what do you think I say to you oh we been down that road The story,...
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Crying along with me
A flower said it all all those memories I recall ,of you and me how happy we use to be and now the sun is crying along with me I hugs myself as tears...
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The weather and other remedies
At the storm's navel, I surface
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Time To Go
Time To Go By Paul McCann The old man got out of bed and looked outside the window . It was pouring down with rain and he thought , I’m not to going...
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What is freedom?
With out financial freedom You have no freedom at all this is nt just theory it's fact and you can see it all around you The freest people on Earth...
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THE PERFECT MURDER
THE PERFECT MURDER Alwin walked down the corridor, pushing the house keeper’s cart, the sole of his shoes just gliding along the satin rug and opened...
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Steps (Episode 28 - The Further Chronicles of a Young Lady (and her Maid))
Aefelthrith takes steps, reluctantly, and Dolly makes plans
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The School of Thought Part 1
“Where’s our teacher?” “I have no idea.” “So… we can do whatever we want this lesson?” “I think we have to solve the riddle on the board.” Harold...
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"Willow's Missing Tail" 32
Martha and Perfidia had several trays of the perfect after-midnight snack food heating in the kitchen’s large commercial size oven. Martha decided a...
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Difficulties in Life
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] The furnace hot refines, and hard the cleansing heat: no cross or tribulation borne but will bring benefit...
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It ain’t where you’re from, it’s where you’re at
We tell ourselves we want change. We stare across the divide at that other life - greener, cleaner, fuller, freer - and we feel the ground beneath us...
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Riddles
In 1984, Nick Kershaw’s The Riddle was in the charts - a mysterious, catchy song full of apparently profound but entirely nonsensical lyrics. It...
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A Puzzling Story
And a puzzled reader.
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5p.
Was walking past one of my favourite jewellery shops, when I noticed they had a sale on. There was something I recently wanted to buy, I wondered if...
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Elementary, My Dear Fred
I stood in front of my neighbor’s door - as is my want on a Saturday morning, when in need of fresh eggs for my famed kipper omelet—and read the note...
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