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What If Challenge - They're Here For the Chickens
Firstly, 'what if' is a game I have recently started playing with my kids to get their imaginations going by starting with one random question and...
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A Game of Cricket
If life, as they say, is a bit like cricket, We're certainly on a sticky wicket. The loose ball will end in a thicket, But vicious bouncers will make...
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St Leonards to Bexhill-on-Sea
The train was packed with day-trippers. Through a gap in the seats I spied a young woman with an alarmingly contoured face; its soft planes a...
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Problems with time. Chapter 11.
Calizone stepped towards the passage. The man held up a hand to stop her. “No,” he said, his voice shifting from thin and papery to deep and young,...
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Amanderella and the Mystery of the Silent Statue.Chapter 4.
Chapter Four. Inside. Amanderella stepped back into the vestibule. The space was small, barely ten feet deep, with just enough room for a visitor to...
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A young man raised from the dead
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] From out the city came a crowd – with tears, they carry death. They met another crowd, and he who could...
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" ground squirrel" -tanka
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you cry, you die
The wagon rattled its teeth out on the corrugations of the western Iraqi desert. It was freezing—the kind of dry, biting desert cold that cuts...
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Fruit Cocktail
im age by David from Pixabay.
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The Bungalow-7
Continued from Chapter 6: The Bungalow-6 | ABCtales Hawke tapped on the back door of No. 49A. Hales looked up from the kitchen worktop and motioned...
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Amanderella and the Mystery of the Silent Statue.Chapter 3.
Chapter Three. The First Puzzle. Amanderella remained crouched on the smooth stone, her grey travelling dress pooling around her boots. If someone...
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Problems with time. Chapter 10.
Chapter Ten. Nordon. Walking without magic was like walking blindfolded. Normally, Calizone could feel the pulse of the earth, the underground hum of...
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3.3 The Paper Trail
Five years ago, when Zanat first joined the bank, she had worn a headscarf just like Rosa. Idania, on the other hand, had never worn one ever in her...
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MAÑANA - Part Three: Capítulos Gratis
The list went up on the eighteenth, three typed sheets under glass beside the man door. They read it the way they had read the notice, in shifts...
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'Finding the Tunnel & Strange Devices' - Time Tunnel # 6
Finding the Time Tunnel (1984) (1) We arrived in Glasgow, just before 7pm, that would give us time to get our travel bags to the B&B, one of the...
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Late Summer Garden Haiku
Sunflowers rising, Hollyhocks tower above bees, butterflies, birds.
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107!!
She sleeps a lot … not unhappy as in younger years … when …
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Amnesty for Midgley
‘Move your feet, Thomas!’ Ruby waited for half a second then tutted and smacked the broom straight into his ankle. ‘Hey, that’s my worst foot,’ he...
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Watching You Chapters Thirty-Seven & Thirty-Eight
Chapter Thirty-Seven ‘So you’re telling me you’ve no idea.’ Preston stared at Jacobs, then raised his eyes to the ceiling. Absolutely not.’ Jacobs...
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Amanderella and the Mystery of the Silent Statue.Chapter 2.
Chapter Two. Radboon Manor. Amanderella slowed as she passed through the village. People did not scatter, as they once had when she arrived on her...
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