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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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Millipede
I'd stolen a staff from the housewarming
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THE COLLAR
i bought my cat a collar i hung it on her neck now others know she is a pet if they decide to check it has a bell that jingles each time she walks...
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The Last Night Chapter 16 A Beautiful Landing
The Last Night Chapter 16 A Beautiful Landing 45 Terratu filled the twenty by ten -foot view screen of the ships’ forward deck, a spacious gleaming...
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Pick Up
Almost home. Angel hurried up in the hill at Byron Street, pulling her coat tighter around her flowery Boots' blouse, the high winds catching in her...
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~ northern muse ~
beautiful miracle miraculous beauty beautiful vision her name is wonderful her name is mystery ~ oh sweet thing you sweet thing i'm in heaven when...
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The Feels
Have been feeling Christmassy since that dreamy agate day in St Andrews. Travelled home a day early as the forecast changed from 2 degrees to -7. The...
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Eight Out of Ten Bulgarians
Described at the rate of exactly one hundred words per day (which isn’t many but at least I try), this is the crazy sort of stuff I found myself doing during the latter half of November.
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what comes after Christmas.
Carl sucked on his teeth but didn’t say anything when the camper van parked in their street. The neighbours would squabble about it soon enough...
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If I Were A Bell
Inspired by a moment from 'Guys and Dolls'.
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The Last Night Chapter 15 The Archaeologist
The Last Night The Archaeologist Chapter 15 43 Wyatt was up and about the next day. Doctor Sain (Sain being her last name) found him standing on the...
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The Last Night Chapter 14 Terratu
The Last Night Chapter 14 Terratu 40 “No no no. I do, I.” Sleep melted slowly from his mind. He turned away from the Captain and focused his...
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Cuckoo Song
The island she stands on Is sinking day by day, So she sings a cuckoo song To pass her time away under dark skies. She’s waiting for the sun In her...
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I Exit The Night
Aberdeen, your streets are empty and dark And hey my poetry mojo’s back! Your floodlit buildings look majestic and bright, As I walk home from an...
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Doing Days
Couple of ‘doing days’. Little chores outside the home to get done, buy Christmas stamps, return boots (not the millionaire boots, other ones), buy...
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