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In My Peas

An imaginary quest
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Winter's Charm

frosty mornings thrill to a chill when icy cold and perfectly still, lake once rippled glistening rings frozen till ice thaw comes in spring, swift...
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3 Calculating the Past

The Moon is very slowly receding from Earth it is predicted even by elementary physics and can be measured. This is a simple fact and is the result...

Gaia

Flash Fiction. 100 words.
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Waiting on Mitch

Monday, March 27, 1967 I had a crush on my sister’s girlfriend, which ended up getting me a seat at the RKO theater on east 58th street. My sister...

Original Trigenic Flex.

On Saturday I bought some wonderful shoes from Clarks. I hadn’t planned to buy shoes from there, but from a different shop but I was passing and...

Ugly, Fat, and Diseased; or, I Don't Understand Myself, Let Alone What I Write About Me.

Nothing but truth here friends, comrades, lovers and fighters. I am ugly. I am fat. I am full of that stuff that clouds the blood and so the mind...
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A supermarket just before closing

A supermarket just before closing is like a seaside town in winter. An empty car park. Shelf stackers sit on kick stools stacking shelves. Evening...
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Blackcurrant or orange squash

She takes a bottle of each. Robinson’s blackcurrant. Robinson’s orange squash. The only brand name in her trolley. No Pepsi, Persil or McCains it’s ‘...

I See. I See

Mr. M. slouching against the building wall his family in apt 3 other side awakening with sounds of movement – he hears their rush to brush teeth and...

Alien Opportunities Ch.1 : New Opportunities Part 2

Unhappy with his nine to five job, Chris applies for a job, and finds it is an alien run business. He attends the interview and comes into contact with the aliens for the first time. He begins to find out more about them.
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Galaxy Part Six.

Last Thursday I was at work when I got a phone call from Arc the debt recovery company, it was another one of their Assistants, she introduced...

Light Parties, Oct 31

Longer, dark night – playing with fright? raise up the Light, festive fun bright, no trick, taunt, or gore, or ugly costumes from the store (throw-away single use plastic to scare with the fantastic) …

Love And Hate

Love And Hate By Paul McCann Love and hate are part of you , on one hand you understand the things you do. On the other hand , you deny What’s right...

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...

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...
Cherry

Diner

Noir
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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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