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The Wind is Similar
to sword thrusts lancing your face with chills among a trembling copse of aspen – white bark reflecting lightness among my searching for someone to...
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Out of a lump of clay
I have been telling babies their manuscripts will often be turned down without the first line being read and it’s hard, watching the babies...
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DON'T TEMPT FATE!
Don't try to conjure the dead at Halloween it's not just good spirits that might be seen, invisible places where evil comes through means it could be...
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The Chair Problem
I was woken at 6.30 one morning by a hammering on my back door. I quickly dressed and hurried downstairs to find Alun in an agitated mood. “It’s the...
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Tick, tock
Time ticking in a bar
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Seven Nights in the Flamingo Hotel
At five o’clock in the morning you are woken by the sounds of the couple in the next room arguing and this surprises you because the previous night...
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The Death Of Robert Forster
You were an actor and your death has caused remorse. You starred in 'Me, Myself and Irene' and 'Delta Force'. I became your fan at the age of eight...
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After Death
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Like Jesus rose, he's promised us we'll live like him, with him, with bodies new immortal and free from pain and sin, if …
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Capri/Paradigm Theaters
Years ago, a movie theater called 'Paradigm' was open in Morristown, Tennessee. Before that, it was the 'Capri' movie theater. I watched my first two...
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Schrödinger's Box Set
Cynical, moi? Image is from needpix.com and free for non-commercial use.
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The Avant-Garde Con Artist
On any given school-day morning in 1968 I could be found sleeping on the bathroom floor. Curled up on the bathmat trying to recapture a goodnight’s...
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Then and Now
A writing class exercise to write a science fiction story. Could well be science fact
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Slipping Through The Net - Poppy Poppies Part Three.
My Husband Paul was listening to the radio, this week, and he was listening to a modern-day soldier, who had been to Iraq and other places. He’d lost...
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Squash is in Season
"Have a happy Halloween!" "Don't tell me how to live my life," I said. "Cheeky prick." He scuttled off back to his cheeky prick parents stood waiting...
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Spaghetti
Should I teach you how to cook a proper spaghetti Bolognese? You’ve got to learn how to make things from scratch. I looked on your shelves and you...
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Tins of things
All this food we’re eating tells a story about Britain. These cupboard doors are wobbly, maybe this isn’t as nice a kitchen as we thought when we...
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Milk
She says she’s lactose intolerant but I think she just misses her dad, a milkman, who sat down on his armchair two Boxing Days ago and never work up...
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Alien Opportunities Ch.1 : New Opportunities Part 1
Chris is unhappy with his nine to five job, and finds out that the alien arrival, to live amongst us on Earth, has created new opportunities for work in alien employment.
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