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Undercover Agent 2
“It’s a parrot with perfect recall,” Denton told his boss. “Word for word.” “How does that help. We’ can’t use a parrot in court, we’d look...
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Undercover Agent 1
“Armed police,” someone shouted, and a dozen or more armed officers stormed into the room. They surrounded the table, at which Linton and Hilya were...
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Cat Nation
Mrs Simpkins had stuck little A4 posters on every lamp post , bin and tree in a one-mile radius of her small garden flat in the quiet end of town at...
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Wonky wants become wise
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] I’ve freedom to do what I want, empowered now to do what I would – for as I now know, love the Lord, I value...
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If I Could Live My Life Over Again .......
If I Could Live My Life All Over Again. I have said, that SO many times. Even more so last year. What does that really mean? Usually, I say that when...
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Domestic Help
“You’re out of milk, down to your last egg and there’s something green and unpleasant on the top shelf. Is it something I said?” My fridge sends me...
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In This House
It was the wind outside which finally roused her. If not for the storm, cascading sidewards in howling waves, she’d have remained in slumber. Perhaps...
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The Can Guru Lectures #314
One day the earth will be blackened rubble. Even now, it's nought but a bubble. Gurning youths with simian stubble. Owt for nowt, at the double. No...
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In A Troubled Land
What lies ahead shows incessant consternation by the hour; Fleeting moments grieving, yearning lips crave romantic lover, for a maiden needs...
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The Bank Manager
News item from the Bounds Green Advertiser 22 nd December 1941 BUNGLED BANK ROBBERY ENDS IN TRAGEDY Abi Gale, Crime Reporter An attempted bank...
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The Old Village Parish Priest
The Old Village Parish Priest By Paul McCann So there you would see him standing amongst them in between all the bigots filled with hatred who all...
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Envy
Canary confined: … Lady longing to be …
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Dad's poet society
“I wish I had never put myself in such an awkward position!” he muses desperately. “If I only had given him some instructions. Just a few tips. Like...
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Emptiness
[Emptiness] Swell with volatile anticipation; Into obscurity, this known vacant cold storage looms with drudgery. A chilly melancholy refuge where...
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1:4:10 Crait (Part 3)
Char hadn’t even realised they had left the ship. She and Charrlene now found themselves choking in The Slingshot’s courtyard. With a wave of her...
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Maytonsfield, Sernela
In the Sunday Sernela, the county's go-to source of misinformation, it had been made questionably official that Maytonsfield was the most eccentric (...
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20.2 Just Another Non-Existent Terminal
In the first week of June 1972, Tyler stopped on Velutina Drive in Tempe, Arizona, 10 yards from the lawn of 1712. Engine idling and revving up...
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The Red Kite (bird of prey)
Image is a part of a painting by my aunt.
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VEINS
Veins Stop the blame: Stop the pain. Cease the madness; Conceited sadness. A million tears, wasted years. Can an empty heart ever be filled? Insanity...
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The gamechanger
My dream scenario!
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