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Borderline
I live on fault lines. Every step is an earthquake, every breath a landslide. I do not walk through the world I tremble through it. Borderline. That’...
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About to go 'pop'
A plague of wild hooded brutes. A feckless mob in cahoots. Skull faces and tired boots. Ignored too long, by grey suits.
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Trump reads Hansel and Gretel

So there were these two kids, Hansel and Gretel - great kids, really terrific kids. Everybody said so. And they had a father, who was, you know, weak...
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The Moral Compass in a Post-Truth World
Fairy tales may be for children, but the lessons they teach echo in doctors’ wards and flotillas alike. From the earliest age, children encounter...
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Angels Really!

Appearing sometimes as a man, sometimes a brilliant awesome one, though usually unseen …to tell Zecharaiah …then to Mary … A crowd … at that anguish… the guarding soldiers shook with fright…
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Is America Coming Here? (Sleepwalkers?) by rogue reporter Alfred N.Muggins
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14/9/25 (25/9/25) Alfred was beginning to think it was time to go to America to actually buy some guns, for his own self defence! The political and...
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300 Words
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The challenge I created for myself was to write a story totalling 300 words or fewer. I found it particularly difficult! Gold Rush ‘Well, ahoy ma'am...
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La Barbe Bleue
The very first time I saw him, he was haloed by torchlight and the murmur of a crowd. His reputation was immense - almost impossibly heroic -...
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Tom Thumb
From my archive (© Luigi Pagano 2015).
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Little Pigs
Boring little pigs, all gathered in their fragile groups. The typical nerds and jocks and hooligans. Oh how such connections could dissolve under the...
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