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Rain

Does rain fall like tears of rage? Or hailstones most crystal clear? Giving salvation from starvation, While some struggle storm in fear? Cloudburst...
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A Thin Line

Pierce watched the shards of colour knife over the surface of the table as he sullenly pushed and prodded his glass through puddles of spilt beer...

The difference between scorning and genuine doubts

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] 1) Cynical of truth and trust … 2) Those whose nagging doubts are real, puzzlement, confusion feel, but are willing to research …
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Staunton's IV

Staunton’s IV Jim walked up the street towards Staunton’s. Big Peggy Baranski waved to him from the upper story. She was getting ready to entertain...
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Steelie 10

Rain lashed against the windows and brought a clatter of feet from the smokers outside. A man with a scar bisecting his chin, swaggered over to their...
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Hope May Hate

I hate you with the ferocious fire of a thousand blistering suns I hope that all your number twos come out like barbed wire number ones May every...
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Rain on Red Earth

I was revising older poems, so posting this now under Inspiration point as a good place. Sleep out: an outside bedroom on a veranda - I've slept in a few. Iron roof: The traditional corrugated metal, cools quicker at night. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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The Book: Chapter 40

Alice tried to focus on vital research, but the repercussions of her job loss made it difficult to concentrate. She’d expected to be a doctor forever...
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So glad you made it

She takes the rubber duck out of the basket, places the plastic animal on the tray and walks to the back of the restaurant. Once she is seated, she...
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The Bee Who Lived In An Igloo

The Bee Who Lived In An Igloo By Paul McCann Albert Buzzbee loved to hum and he hummed every chance he got . He hummed happily away until the day...
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Steelie 9

A dog howled outside the front windows. The sound cutting through the pub. Brodie looked at Steelie, his hard gaze softening when he moved empty...
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The Gifting

The Gifting So here we are inside HMP Brixton. The mood brighter than usual. New spring hot sun diffuses mustard through dust thick classroom windows...

Well, I Will Go To The Foot Of Our Stairs!

Had a phone call this morning, Meghan was with me, I put it on loud speaker, because most phone numbers, that I don’t know, they are usually from...

The Threshold

when a man is a dweller of the threshold she's all he lives for, wrap your words around her soldier, wrap your words around her ~ standing at the...
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Staunton's- part III

Staunton’s- part III Jim’s eyes fluttered open early the next morning. His nose was filled with the low-tide reek of the nearby Pacific. The loud,...

Reasons to love Britain

It's diversity. It's countryside. The ever-changing seasons. The ever-changing light. Old culture, language and music. Old buildings. The abundance...
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A Deadly Reunion

Light poured from the open doorway, red neon trickling over wet pavement like blood from an open wound. An arterial thumping pounded inside my head...
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The Patrolman - 14

Brenda's third house was a sleek white ship of a thing considered 'in' for Wilshire.

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