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Bo Bo And Charlie In Eden

Bo Bo And Charlie In Eden By Paul McCann It wasn’t as if no one knew it would happen and as everyone had always feared the first of the nuclear...

The Demise of an Old Religion

They were always places that gave good cheer, And, of course, the occasional jeer. There was usually one or two, conveniently near. A jolly welcome;...
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Nighthawks

“Where do we go from here?” said Betty. Craven looked at his watch. “If we leave now we’ll make it back uptown in time to hit the sack by midnight...

Clean Sentences

Poetry isn't about clean sentences. Sometimes the poet has to bleed a little...
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A Memory Lost

A Memory Lost a calm breath in the still silence, a pause in heartbeat, a wait, waiting instant, a now. it flits by, on the winds of forever. it...
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The Dragons' Lair Chapter 2.

Chapter Two. A Bored Princess. Princess Sarriette picked up her embroidery ring and hurled it across the room. “I am fed up with this silly sewing. I...
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Amanderella and the Haunted Mill Chapter 2

Chapter 2: The Pencil on Wheels Amanderella let herself into No. 9 Wimple Terrace, where the hallway gleamed so brightly it could have been used to...

Test Everything Else by Scripture!

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Test every belief and proposition against the bar of revelation – the truth omniscient God revealed: creeds...
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Danny Moonshine takes a walk

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Danny Moonshine (not his real name), a moniker given to him by the locals, locked up his front door with a clutch of keys and walked down the ill-...
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Priceless

I meet him outside of my usual routine. It is campsite dark, the stars a fish shape across a December sky. It is arctic cold, the sort of cold where...
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1st Performance

1st PERFORMANCE by Frances Macaulay Forde BACKSTAGE: dank, dusty, sweat-smells in the soft blue light where rope, sandbags and tape-marks glow among...
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Hearthmoss

The clock above the whiteboard had a second hand that stuck on the eleven and jumped two seconds to catch up. Wesley had watched it do that through...
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Boomtown

Podge clutched at the soft fitting on the chair and it helped pull himself upright. Glanced at the pints and tumblers on their table and lifted a...

Banished To Earth Book Two Souls Adrift (12)

42 The sweet, intoxicating smell of hot chocolate swelled his lungs, cleansed his mind and cradled his heart the moment he stepped beneath the great...
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Somatic Meditation

13/6/26 Checking in with my body Sorrow. Flood with grief. My breath, the ocean, Shush sad swell Weeping waves, Rise and fall. Helpless sand, Quiet,...
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The Dragons' Lair

Chapter One. Prelude. Today was the greatest celebration the kingdom of Sealand had seen for many a year. It was the Naming Day of the Princess,...
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Amanderella and the Haunted Mill Chapter 1

Chapter1. Solicitors, Sovereigns, and a Steadying Goose The lecture hall still smelled faintly of over-brewed tea, stale biscuits and damp umbrellas...
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Bron-49

Continued from Chapter 49: Bron-48 | ABCtales The sun burst out from behind the grey cloud as the Grace, Bron, Mam, John-John and Sian pushed open...

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