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A Pledge

A Pledge Hey, eight billion on earth the population! Let us take a pledge in unison that each of us will plant saplings, two and nurture them to grow...
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I Go To Church Each Sunday
I go to church each Sunday, God warns ‘there’s much to fear, the world is decomposing, the final end is near’. I go to church each Sunday and taste...
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7220 Seconds

Two hours and twenty seconds. Tick-tock, the clock goes, waiting for the body to shake, to convulse, to rise.
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Dawn.

It sometimes amazes me, how our dogs can poo on demand! In the mornings when I put them out, one at at time, I will watch them, they do a wee and a...
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i always look at the sky

as a kid i always looked at the sky didn’t we all? those shapes that could be made into anything once i wanted to be up there too in that blue i...
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Perfect Synchronicity

He thought back to the hour at dusk when a bird’s call sounded outside him and deep within him in perfect synchronicity, so that it did not break off...
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Christmas Pan-to

At Christmas, I like to take the opportunity to deviate, temporarily, from whatever saga Josiah and Archibald are currently involved in, and try a little seasonal nonsense. This is the first for 2024, there may well be others!
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The Last Night Chapter 17 A Dirt Path

The Last Night Chapter 17 A Dirt Path 49 Wyatt was mesmerized by the sun -streaked panorama of stately pines and sprawling arthritic oaks racing past...
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Fib
Am enjoying lighting the breakfast advent candle, at least this way I have some idea of what day it is. In theory. My mother was all taken with St...
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passing

passing you boarded up the top windows first, on the inside i thought it was a weed grow but val at number 14 whispered behind her hand – he never...
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Can you play with madness?

When Alma stopped talking, it was as if the sea had ceased to roar. As if the dogs no longer barked. As if the rain no longer pattered on the worn...
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The First Date
The First Date By Paul McCann As a school teacher , it was not just a job but a vocation for Mr Fingerton who taught with a holistic approach ,...
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Tom Tom Turnaround (7) (ii)

"You still awake, Russell?" - "Russell?" "Shut up and go to sleep." "I want to see Father Christmas." "You saw Father Christmas in Selfridges." "I...
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1:5:7 Descent (Part 1)
Loud. Every council member seemed to want to talk at once. Lore just sat there, at the end of the table, listening; it was all noise to them but they...
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Tom Tom Turnaround (7) (i)

The street lay still and empty in the pale, windless sanctity of a winter Sunday afternoon. There was a church-like silence and secrecy about the...
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Where’s your snug?

Dim December mid December Heavy grey day dull trees still trees (storm past) damp and dreary wet and weary. Separate isolate insulation,...
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Santa Baby (Dead Reckoning series - Part 39)

In which Archibald is constructive, mostly, and Samantha makes plans.
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An unfair test
"You have to take responsibility now”, an icy voice jeered at me. Instilled with anger and horror, I bashed at the old hag. “Why would I do such a...
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Bus Pass [and BPL, Don't] Go to Billycock Hill [but neither did the Famous Five]
Being a research-whisperer, and what with the wonders of the interweb, BPL discovered that Billycock Hill was in fact, an enormous ice-covered hill...
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