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Glancing Back
We stood at lakeside...camera poised, I thought about time flowing rapidly; imagined we were two water lillies floating on calm water, laughing at...
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The Heritage Man
The volunteer stands in the grassy courtyard of the ruined castle, a heritage knight armed already at 9:15 with enough leaflets to vanquish the...
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Goatie 33
I was getting good at getting beaten up. I curled into a ball on the bed and let them hit me. Bounced about and squealed. That way you didn’t get hit...
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Song For You
You have not asked it of me, but I'll sing a song for you Girl, I'll sing you a slow tune. It's melody strikes coarse and clumsy upon all civilised...
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Loves Reality
Loves Reality by T. Clarke He felt cold. His first sensation. He was in that transient state between sleep and near sleep where total consciousness...
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Nunca Te Rindas
The flowers that "never gave up" on our terrace in Lanzarote 2008
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A Secret of Men (Part 3 of 3)
When the kid finished the first sandwich, he took a sip of his tea with his better hand, moving it slowly through his mouth over his wounds. After a...
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A Secret of Men (Part 2 of 3)
They were heading up the slabstone path in Mr. Gregor’s backyard when the sputtering began again. He remembered Ivan spinning and, pulling his mask...
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Cow — and Bull
A cow is big with doleful eyes, munching, chewing … The bull is bigger, burly …
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A Secret of Men (Part 1 of 3)
The pale malnourished kid had been watching the thinly visible stream of smoke slither up the thin chimney from the dying embers. He had backed...
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Goatie 32
I tried to save Jordan. Went through the motions of trying to block and unlock death. Pulled the wire of out his mouth and got a jolt that shook me,...
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"Not me, I was in Cleveland" defense.
“Not me, I was in Cleveland” Defense To date, almost 600 criminals have been arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigations, tried and convicted by...
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Dinner with Adele
I had a young woman made to look after my daughter. Then things became complicated.
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I’ve Got It On A List
It was a very pretty piece of paper, it came from one of those pads that people actually BUY! Me, I cut up old envelopes and use those. This one was...
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Chewing the Cud
My friend Bill is rather glib and quite often he tells a fib. I listened carefully to my bud and discreetly chewed the cud. “I wandered lonely as a...
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Silas Nash book 1: Hush Hush Honeysuckle: Chapter 27
Lawson said, ‘Boss, they’re waiting for you with the suspect in Interview Room Three.’ ‘Who’ve we got?’ ‘No idea, boss.’ Nash felt his heart rate...
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Cowardly or Courageous ?
When I read the Inspiration Point and pondered what I should wirte, I had no idea this would be written
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Silas Nash Book 1: Hush Hush Honeysuckle: Chapter 26
When Nash rounded the corner at Happy Mount Park, he swung into a parking bay at the farthest point from the bustle of the busy parts of the prom...
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The Insurance.
I have home insurance; I have home contents insurance. There is only one single item in our home that I insure on its own, and that is the washing...
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Voices part two
'He seems to be have been a man with fifty pounds of ideas per square inch resting on his brain ''Man is general, but Leonardo was not,''someone said...
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