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Appreciated

… not 'PUT-IN' power … 70 years of caring, gracious smile …
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I Buried My
face and cried so much goodness in this world too much sadness beneath the sky I hid my face & I cried.
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Ugly Puggly 35
Ugly Puggly's skin was gritty with dirt. He was making fancy chips and grilling pieces of duck on the bone. He’d their vegetable relation, chickpeas...
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1:1:3 Dreaming (Part 2)
“Just checking their pupils reactivity. You can never be too safe.” Walsh darted the pen from one side of their vision to the other. Lore’s lungs...
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1:1:3 Dreaming (Part 1)
Silence. For a moment, there was only darkness but then, slowly, light. They could see but they couldn’t quite focus. Not too far away, they could...
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Jubilee by Alfred N.Muggins Part 1
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2/6/22 What does it mean? In the bible it meant the cancellation of debts (rents?), the reapportioning of lands to hold (land reform?), a chance to...
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Lockdown Turn Around
. Lockdown Turn Around By Paul McCann We’ve been too long left alone isolated in the home . Its time to kiss this thing goodbye , and claim this life...
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Bad Is The New Good
Overview: In a typical story world, the hero always wins, don't they? Well Edna WayBlossom changes everything when she gets a book that brings her...
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Kings of Myth and Illusion

Well, this is a titular poem for a collection written after the fact. The collection is on here, here. https://www.abctales.com/collection/kings-myth-and-illusion or you could just click on the link at the bottom of the poem . Image is author's own from PD elements: source -wikipedia.
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Willow's Tail" 29 (gather the suspects)

The festival’s closing ritual had begun, the reception hall was lit with twinkling fairy lights and a banner strung across its impressive façade...
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Six Feet Underground

When my friend was a teenager, he started smoking pot. If you're wondering if my friend is still alive, sadly, he's not The pot that he smoked led...
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Nuages

This weeks IP: inspired by https://www.abctales.com/story/ewan/django and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRfcvs1VeIo
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Ugly Puggly 34
I met one of my out-of-work colleagues, Bob, in the lane. I’d stripped down to my T-shirt and felt the sun burn the top of my head and back of my...
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The Killer (Part 1)
Note: This story contains a graphic depiction of a deed that some readers may find upsetting or alarming. The story is an attempt to explain the...
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The Killer (Part 2)
CONTINUED FROM PART 1 Note: This story contains a graphic depiction of a deed that some readers may find upsetting or alarming. The story is an...
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Back In Kansas

Audio version at: https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/back-in-kansas-mp3 Back in Kansas Lightening zags across a cobalt horizon, splintered,...
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Leaving The Nest
This is a poem inspired by Kilb50's story: The Castle, about a young girl named Elowen. Such hankering memories when leaving home, embarking on...
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Diamonds of truth

I remember a child (about 8 years old) in Sunday School saying something like ‘It’s a good idea to say you believe in God – if it’s wrong you won’t...
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Sea Angels & Butterfly Kisses

Sometimes a man needs a brutal love rescue, in a tough love way. Then kissed, caressed and loved back to operational capacity. At what degree is a...
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I Walk Among Recordings
I Walk Among Recordings of life’s journal that juts out from shrubs with prickles to shackle you and erase any vanity that clings to you. Suddenly a...
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