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Spitting image
The moment he steps onto the small stage. This is always a mixture of his deepest disgust. And his greatest desire. Those first seconds where...
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18.2 An Astronomical Twilight
When Tyler arrived in Tbilisi which was another air force base, they put him on a ‘Coke’ transport plane, the Antonov An series but a different...
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1:4:10 Crait (Part 2)
Red lights flashed throughout the ship; sirens wailed in their wake. All of the Lores appeared to be moving to their action stations, including Sam...
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Footloose ('Dead Reckoning' series - Part 4)
In which D.I. Wood dislikes the health advice he has received and Archibald muses on mice and...elephants!
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Jesus was a Rebel
A personal reflection at Easter. That for myself the truth that Jesus taught is still relevant, even after organised religion squandered it.
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Metal Memories
Music played in your caravan It wasn’t the Brotherhood of Man The kerranging guitars from Judas Priest, Screaming rock music unleashed from the East...
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Childhood
I was told to be seen but never heard This was my pathway to the spoken word I painted word pictures in my mind Spoken word art invisible to the...
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Bawbees
Beneath the black soil (in your dream attic), the unspent coins asleep lament their unspent wealth, hoarded by a corrupt cleric and buried in his...
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The Adequate Tree and The Gnarled Pine
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The worst Friday, but the best
Many expected revolution – the rule of the Romans thrown, but Jesus was bringing salvation, their religious hypocrisy shown. And so they demand...
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18.1 An Astronomical Twilight
Tyler Friesen sat in the classroom going through the day’s lesson of painting your picture book. He figured kids loved their work more when it...
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At the Moment - Chapter 2
https://www.abctales.com/collection/moment At the Moment - Chapter 2 Since giving up drinking, Nate had felt the pull on so many occasions—more...
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Dear Mother And Lou
Dear Old Mother. I can picture it now............. A sunny afternoon Perhaps My beautiful oval Rosewood dragon design table all layed out with my...
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From Wife To Carer, Just Like That.
No words can express the love I feel when I'm with you,or the magic Memories of so much fun we have Had over the 34 years we've shared, Even the...
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Empty Homes
For the year of 2023, Transparency International’s corruption perceptions index (which ranks countries by experts’ views of possible corruption in...
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Roots
I walk up the slightly muddy path towards the kissing gate. This is such a familiar route my feet seem to know how to avoid the wettest spots. Tom...
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Erazofuge
‘It was my uncle who invented it, Uncle Clive, he’s always been a very..unusual man, very clever. He designed the font that they use on tax forms...
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Ruler serves
“You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord’ and rightly so. … I, your Teacher and Lord have washed your feet. I have set you an example" … Authority and humble servant, wisdom and compassion, all power and gentleness.
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17.2 Domino Effect
According to the KGB report, Jaco Ferre was a barber from Badalona who started this profession at his age of 16. He always carried a lunchbox bag of...
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