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This Precarious Life

For a time, I travelled a lot. I was like a traveling salesman, a salesman with nothing to sell. I travelled for pleasure, for experience. It’s not...
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Break the Child: Chapter Thirteen: Death By Lorry
Chapter Thirteen: She Almost Killed Us. It’s Wednesday and I’ve got a half day off school, how good is that? It means that I haven’t got long though...
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Early Blessings

Early Blessings The Mother Nature hides His treasure evolved out of the evolutions to sustain the creations since long before the human birth beneath...
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Certainties

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] You’ve told us you are, and always have been, that you made the earth, then women and men; Millenia you're … that we may rejoice …
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The Eighth Mother's Day

This is the eighth Mother's Day that has come around since you died. You were one of the world's greatest mothers and that can't be denied. Time...
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A Glass Winter 10
Clear as his two steaming jailers, he saw her twisted form, moving ever so slightly in the moment before absolute death. A second playing on an endless loop, his wife shifting into silence, a shiver almost too small to see, and now he was condemned to see it always.
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Hell's New Torment

When I died, I arrived in Hell and there was a lesson that I quickly learned. Satan is using a new kind of torture, people are no longer being burned...
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Lockdown Trouble in Fairyland
Bob and Clara have called a meeting. They’ve been rushed off their wings for weeks and this Saturday afternoon is the first time they’ve had more...
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The Exhaustion of the Hunt

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Winter in Springtime

Winter in Springtime Saturday, May 9, 2020 It is cold here in Buffalo, New York today. Temperatures fell below freezing last night. There is a lacy...
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Summer's Blessing

Does May tree hold that optimism, that gentle language of late spring? As people eagerly gathered beneath Hawthorn's bloom, I remember on village...
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Night-shift

Bed. Late You arrived before me football matches in your ears all irate lights were out stumbling to get in Your back a wall almost touching mine our...
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Planting the Seed
An evil deed.
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Break the Child: Chapter Twelve: Five Currant Buns
Chapter Twelve: Five Current Buns ‘ Mum, can I have the day off to go to the scan on Friday, please? I want to know if it’s a boy or a girl.’ ‘What...
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Meanwhile ...
At the hospital the medical masks and surgical gowns had all run out. The doctor who treated me was forced to improvise. He was wearing a gimp suit...
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Flamingo Dreams

And in other news. My book, Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel , which appeared here on AbcTales between October and December 2019 is to be published...
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Blood Hunter

Austin buys a cursed samurai sword called the Blood Hunter from a flea market and gets more than he bargains for.
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Trapped in An Episode of SURVIVOR!

Survival, a word I previously associated with a TV show. One I’d never watched because I’m not much of a ‘live or die’ type and didn’t want to see...
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Crystalized Vanity
I was meditating, opened my eyes, and saw the snow as if it was the first time.
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