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Period Piece - § 4
They walked home the way they walked home, her hand in his. He carried the day behind a level face, the missing hour and the folder with the date in...
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Tom All Alone 17 (ii)
Tom returned to school on the Monday, and Miss Newman was back again. But things weren't the same. As soon as he arrived in the playground he noticed...
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A Summer's Afternoon
A gentle breeze awakens the rich green leaves overhead. Rays of sunlight filter through, lighting up different parts of your face. You move your...
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An Anxious Voice
They never asked me for my opinion nor pondered on the fact that maybe I’m not as evil as they make me out to be. I am the eerie voice in their head...
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Adrift
And as we vaguely drift away on these grey and ageing seas, Made dumb by the same of static, drowning our voices And blinded By the recurring...
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New Project Chapter 1
I’ve lived here all my life. the living room where I sit today watching homes under the hammer is the same place I dribbled out rusks over a faded...
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Amanderella and the Ppockingstull Treasure Chapter 5
Chapter 5. Reason for the visit. Lord Gottsnobbler edged a little closer to the fireplace, eyeing the wicker basket as though it might sprout legs. “...
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The First Witch Chapter 7
Chapter Seven. The Witch’s Cottage. Back at the campsite, Jasmine and Emdan slid down from Das’s back. Jasmine set the dragon‑skin box carefully...
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Period Piece - § 3
The slip was on his desk when he came back with his coffee, face down on the laminate. His name typed at the top, and a time, and under that the word...
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Period Piece - § 2
The work was a game, the same one every day. Alan sat at his console under the long tubes of light with the controller worn smooth in his hands and...
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Period Piece - § 1
The radio came on at six with a song Alan Merrick had heard a thousand times and could not have named. He let it play. Coffee and the gray slatted...
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Resplendent Rose
Texture and shades; proportioned to please: pleasure …
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Banished To Earth Book Two (4)
Chapter Three 12 That same morning, Silhouette watched Stayner slash his way through mountainous swells as if they were smoke. Eventually, he shrank...
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Comeuppance
Grumpy Granny grumbled, tearing Terry tumbled …
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The world as seen through a creeping Vine
Fragile Hand wakes In shimmer dappled morning light, reach out extend quivering. My body buzzing Flows, my arm, Energy like current Charge: tingling...
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Counting Distinct Colourings
Counting distinct colourings of physical objects with symmetries Combinatorics is the art of counting without counting it is the ability to do very...
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The Rush
Alright pals? Let me chum you doon the road. A will welcome you, a'll carry you Whether tapsaff, dreich-blastet, or lown, Time and the hour run...
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Hilda Doyle's Boil
A silly piece of nonsense, inspired by Hilaire Belloc. Not for the faint-hearted or easily-offended! (my image) Hilda Doyle had a boil growing in her...
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The First Witch Chapter 6
Chapter Six. The Turret. They didn’t have to wait long for Das to return. He landed beside the carriage, looking thoroughly miserable. “I did not...
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Amanderella and the Ppockingstull Treasure Chapter 4
Chapter 4. The Arrival, Maudline did not simply arrive; she came down the drive with the determined rattle of a woman who had conquered several miles...
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