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So Long, Farewell, Goodbye

Dear Eamon, I’ve been hoarding the mailbox every day, waiting for the surprise you promised. Don’t get me wrong, I love your letters, but you’ve been...
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Fixated on Fiction

Fixated on fiction, my favoured writing choice, eclectically selecting when searching for my voice. Stealing ideas, phrases and expressions, Shifting...

Poet's Progress

Open Mic, The Chipped Teacup , back in Eighty-Five, Alcohol it inspired me , and my poetry came alive. I plagiarised lyrics from songwriters like Tom...
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On the Wrong Side

‘On the wrong side of the tracks ‘ was what came to his mind when Martin looked upwards at the huge granite building looming darkly. The melting snow...
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Renata ♥ Mark: chapters 3 and 4

Trophies My sister, Paige (she was pregnant by that point, though neither of us knew yet) had demanded to see photos of Mark soon after our first...
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Amanderella and the Mystery of Wittering Crags. Chapter 7.

Chapter Seven. A Crowded Bar. By the time Amanderella returned to the Stoat & Compass, the wind had picked up, the clouds had thickened, and the...
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Sophrayni's Quiet Hunt Chapter 6.

Chapter 6 Follow that cart. On the road outside, Sophrayni caught up with the cart carrying the sleep potions. She didn’t follow straight away. She...
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The Bungalow-15

Continued from Chapter 14: The Bungalow-14 | ABCtales “There’s no need to tell me that you’re going out for a pint of milk,” said Detective Rees,...
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Renata ♥ Mark: first two chapters

Working on a literary novel vaguely inspired by Diane Schuler, who was a seemingly normal suburban Mom who drunk-drove with her kids the wrong way down the highway and killed them all; she had hidden longstanding alcoholism from her family for years. I was inspired by that kind of self delusion to write a similar long form story.

The Cosmic Horror

So , I write a bit. I have never had anything published, but it’s not for want of trying , poetry, horror stories , short stories about my childhood...
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Present, Fifteen (2)

The gym was not empty. Joyce came through the double doors at eight fifty-two and there were children on the floor in two lines doing a bending...
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Present, Fifteen (1)

Joyce Setzer got to the school at ten past eight with the box on the passenger seat and the heater still not warm. The lot behind the cafeteria had...

The Petrol Station

Semi-derelict wasteland. Ugly functioning habits. Men with belly bulging t-shirts. Grubby, passive-aggressive, And rich beyond worth and reason...

Release

When she's thinking of you, she's not thinking about your size, or you shape or what you look like. She's thinking about the closeness of your face...
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Sophrayni's Quiet Hunt Chapter 5.

Chapter 5. Slipsy Early the next morning, Sophrayni made her way to the next town Maggie had mentioned. Once again, she arrived at a coaching inn...
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Amanderella and the Mystery of Wittering Crags. Chapter 6.

Chapter Six. Woldscar Hall. The path to Woldscar Hall ran along the edge of the reservoir, a long stretch of dark water that made Amanderella shiver...
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Strange!

There was an old lady of Wales, who had a peculiar habit: when the time came for trimming her nails she reached for her straw hat to grab it. That...
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Over And Out

Over and Out By Paul McCann When you know , its time to go , then you better let them know , before you can get on board , its too late to stop the...

you cry, you die. chapter 7

Minutes later, he sat huddled in a dimly lit noodle shop, his mind racing. He kept replaying what had just happened, and Bronson’s final, dying word...

Autumn Haikus

Ideas not forming pruning poems like roses now, A new book next year? Autumn is here, then. A heatwave is the forecast! Geese fly overhead.

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