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A Grimm Tale
There once was a rich man who had two sons, one of whom was extremely handsome, but feckless and lazy, and the other plain of countenance, but clever...
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“If you find honey eat just enough –
– too much of it and you will vomit.” [Proverbs 25:16] Escaping into …
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Watching You, Chapters Twenty-Nine and Thirty
Chapter Twenty-Nine ‘ Listen to me. I’m an active police officer … you are in extreme danger. Please listen to me.’ On the top floor of the multi-...
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Letter From Estero
A letter from Estero It is the 29 th of September here in Estero Florida. The last two weeks, the mornings have been glorious. We sit outside the...
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Enhance The Life You Live
Enhance The Life You Live By Paul McCann Those who interfere with the livelihood of others will never prosper and those who criticise the good works...
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Welsh Lessons-3
It was five o’clock, after school. They were walking back from International Stores to Rhos-y-Bryn Road; Janice swung her mum’s green and red nylon...
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Welsh Lessons-2
“NICK! The bus goes in TWO MINUTES! We’ve got to get down there now!” “NAH. We’ve got loads of time. It always leaves ten minutes late.” “You sure...
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Welsh Lessons-1
WELSH LESSONS April 1975, on the waste ground where the old abattoir used to be “S’mae?” “Sorry, don’t speak Welsh.” “Just means ‘How’s things? We...
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Sharing (Episode 27 - The Further Chronicles of a Young Lady (and her Maid))
Gwladys and Aefelthrith are sharing a bed, again, and other things too!
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Borderline
I live on fault lines. Every step is an earthquake, every breath a landslide. I do not walk through the world I tremble through it. Borderline. That’...
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About to go 'pop'
A plague of wild hooded brutes. A feckless mob in cahoots. Skull faces and tired boots. Ignored too long, by grey suits.
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Trump reads Hansel and Gretel
So there were these two kids, Hansel and Gretel - great kids, really terrific kids. Everybody said so. And they had a father, who was, you know, weak...
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The Moral Compass in a Post-Truth World
Fairy tales may be for children, but the lessons they teach echo in doctors’ wards and flotillas alike. From the earliest age, children encounter...
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Angels Really!
Appearing sometimes as a man, sometimes a brilliant awesome one, though usually unseen …to tell Zecharaiah …then to Mary … A crowd … at that anguish… the guarding soldiers shook with fright…
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Is America Coming Here? (Sleepwalkers?) by rogue reporter Alfred N.Muggins
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14/9/25 (25/9/25) Alfred was beginning to think it was time to go to America to actually buy some guns, for his own self defence! The political and...
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300 Words
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The challenge I created for myself was to write a story totalling 300 words or fewer. I found it particularly difficult! Gold Rush ‘Well, ahoy ma'am...
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La Barbe Bleue
The very first time I saw him, he was haloed by torchlight and the murmur of a crowd. His reputation was immense - almost impossibly heroic -...
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Tom Thumb
From my archive (© Luigi Pagano 2015).
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Little Pigs
Boring little pigs, all gathered in their fragile groups. The typical nerds and jocks and hooligans. Oh how such connections could dissolve under the...
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The Dog Eared Pity Card
I can still see her face Contorted and gritted teeth Arms folded tight It wasn't the greatest night Just anpther tired fight I wondered why we were...
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