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Railway Tracks, Laughter & Spiders

The buddleia is turning brown by the side of the tracks A butterfly perches, rises, perches, rises, then suddenly turns back The South side signal...
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The Sausage Dog Today (5)
"I've done some research about The Sausage Dog Today," Ella said. "Their registered office is a front, a warehouse in London. The same address is...
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The Adventures Of Minator -- chapter 22 -- Closing In

Chapter 22 Closing In The Spaceship banked over the River Thames in the night sky. There was a full moon. They knew they could not be detected by...
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Relationship

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] “Immanuel” means “God with us” – to you is he a stranger? He wants a real relationship, so came, lay in a...
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Procastinations
Yesterday was the first day of the year. On the previous night, following my mother’s tradition every eve of a new year, I woke up near midnight to...
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Matti

You buy the house because of the tree. As soon as you see the tree, you know you have to have the house. It’s a compact, three-bedroom cottage, some...
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Psychokinetic Imagination

An unusually gifted child goes on an adventure with his toys.
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Ways

And now I think of my friend Stevie on an early train from York to London. Learning the words to ‘True Love Ways’ for his open audition for ‘Buddy...
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circles

Another year a ring grown by a tree who silently without forboding circles with earth creatures too do not feel circling circled by years strong-...
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The Sausage Dog Today (4)
Today's Sausage Dog continued to lose sales to the new magazine, The Sausage Dog Today. They were also losing advertisers. Tony hadn't had a full and...
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Saying Hello To 2022

This is New Year's Day. The new year has arrived today. I hope things will be great during this new year. I hope there will be no misery, suffering...
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To Be or Not to Be (an optimist)
Maybe a Happy New Year.
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Ten More Minutes
Ten More Minutes to say I will miss you to tell you how much I love you to tell you your cooking is so delicious to tell you how much I admire you to...
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Lost One
Through amber shores of timeless space, Eyes ever peering into the penitent unknown, Of beauty cast from diamond stars, Of horrors unspeakable that...
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The Sausage Dog Today (3)
"Sausage dog stilts are a terrible idea," said David. "Sausage dogs aren't designed for stilt-walking. They're beloved pets, not circus freaks." He...
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After All These Years
. After All These Years By Paul McCann Finally it happened after all these years I got a note from behind a wall of fears A message on my phone came...
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We Belong To Live In 2022
. We Belong To Live In 2022 By Paul McCann If it was 21 we couldn’t move on and then what on Earth would we do ? But it’s now 22 and the past it has...
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The First Step
“No, absolutely not!” Char looked to her family, both members of which were looking back at her with wide, and well-rehearsed, puppy dog eyes. “He’s...
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Jumping off point
Cramped meeting space. The kitchen wasn’t meant for that many adults but it was the only suitable place in the house given that it had started to...
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Turn of the year ’scape

Scrawny trees stark on pale clear sky tangled twigs and mistletoe orbs; jaded damp sodden turf, wintery stillnes ’til sudden stormy shake of blasting...
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