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Planet Prison

“Death never scared me,” I say to an eagle. “Not until today.” It pays mind only to its decaying meal. “This was my favourite bench as a kid,” I add...

T.Q.G.

January this year, while we were off for Christmas, over the holiday period, my daughter Meghan, was looking through Netflix for something for us...
Cherry

Saviour's Face

I recognised the stranger's face from a painting. (Inspired by Alexej von Jawlensky)
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Twice Told Tales

Sorry, did I already tell you that story? In a community like ours at Spring Run, where most of us are “well over 39,” many of us tell stories over...
Cherry

Totentanz

image is PD source wiki commons. Now that Netanyahu is intent on his own Crime of the Century. I thought I'd put all my Guignol, Teutonic Mediaeval, Holocaust, Apocalyptic (basically anything that mentions Totentanz) in the same collection. Don't wait up, it may take some time.
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Cherry

Mono Log

First of all, let's call it prosetry. Well, I've been playing with this one for well over 10 years. My normal mode of working is give the keyboard a bash and then dash. Those I do fiddle with, I rarely improve. However, I've had a go with this... Regarding the quoted/allusory material, I would say that this is the upper (or do I mean lower??) limit of acceptable, but what do I know. If anyone's worried, I'll take it down.

Embrace

Embrace Your inner peace, now smothered in flames, Of anticipation; the unveiling of a virgin bride. Kindle in volcanic ashes. Causes chaos to riddle...

Holding The Country To Ransom.

Jane’s car failed its MOT, so it has been taxis to and from work. Her taxi is £12 to work and £12 back. Sadly her car has been in the garage for over...

Pastries with Pattie

Pastries with Pattie For the last dozen years or more, we have made it our custom to stop by the Panera Bread Company, in the Coconut Mall Complex in...
Cherry

Another Year

More odes from the crypt... It's about... 6 lines too long - or short, I don't know. Image is from pxhere.com
Cherry

Mirrors for Princes

(Brunellus and) The Mirror of Fools is a satire written by Nigel de Longchamps sometime around the turn of the 12th Century. What is this about? Hold it up to the mirror... it won't help. More old stuff. Image is PD
Cherry

Eclipse

Eclipse Clouds in a dawn sky seen through stoical eyes can sometimes seem like ethereal carriers of innermost angst. Maybe there is a silent...
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Cherry

The Rag Doll's Clothes (I Am Not Invisible)

Photograph is from wiki commons - unfortunately - taken in 2006, I wonder where this woman is now? Is she even alive? A large proportion of the UK's homeless are ex-military personnel. Licence cc-by-sa-2.0.

I READ THE BABBLE

my occupation ? minister many weddings I have led "I now pronounce you, man and wife" so many times I've said but late in life, I must confess...
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Cherry

Undercover Agent 3

I moved into the boy’s room. Denton had warned me that this might happen and had given me clear instructions of what to do, there was no point my...
Cherry

Managing Political Campaign

Managing Political Campaigns Over dinner one evening, a friend asked me what all of this “campaign stuff” was all about. They had apparently been...
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Beachcomber

I remember a time, thirty thousand years ago, when I felt something.
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Story of the week

This Sort of Thing - March 2024 - La finale

Words of comfort, words of peace. Words to fend off angry geese.
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Death Is Constantly Seeking You

Death Is Constantly Seeking You: So what are you waiting for? The sands in the hourglass have now begun to evaporate; Running on empty: pressing to...

Good Neighbours

It has almost become the norm now, the doorbell goes, I go to the door and it the post man asking, “Can you have this parcel for number three?” I...

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