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The Bungalow-28
Continued from Chapter 27: The Bungalow-27 | ABCtales ‘It was common, in the newspaper reports of my youth in the 1970s and 80s, to refer to IRA men...
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Mother Of Open Spaces
Mother Of Open Spaces By Paul McCann Mother of open spaces comfort me in knowing you’re there as I sit silently and pray to you . Mother of open...
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The Gate under the Moon Chapter 5.
Chapter 5. Onwards. Rembrien shook his head. “No. That world was dead, and closing the gate made it disappear forever.” “Then what do we do?” asked...
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Cloud-cuckoo-land Chapter 9.
Chapter Nine. The Way is Blocked. "We are not as close to the centre as I had planned," said the Cuckoo. "I had hoped to be on the other side of the...
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Frankenplot Has Ended! Solution Announced!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all of your wonderful stories written during this Frankenplot event! There were SO many quality submissions...
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Remember, Remember
There's a light just over yonder hill, a glow like the setting sun; mere minutes before midnight came, that sun broke into run; southern light filled...
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POEM i: IBID
Ibid. Surely power must serve other purposes. — UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, 27 February 2026 We serve.¹ We de·serve it. *The world...
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Frankenplot: Ghosted
A flash fiction for Halloween
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Cloud-cuckoo-land Chapter 8.
Chapter Eight. Across the Pool of Ideas. “What makes it go?” inquired Lemmy. Over the roar of the engines, George had to shout to explain. “These are...
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The Gate under the Moon Chapter 4.
Chapter 4. Rembrien. Stump was a larger village. Not a town certainly, but more than a village. It had a proper market square, a stone bridge over a...
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And God flipped the off switch - a short story
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The sky is a charcoal smear spilling water from the heavens. I am sitting in the back seat of a taxi. It left the city hospital with me and my carer...
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Last Call for Frankenplot
The deadline for Frankenplot is fast approaching! Anyone still wanting to participate should post their scary stories or make their guesses at the...
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Frankenplot (THE DARK)
The Dark Dashiell Crow did not care for birthday celebrations, his own or any one else’s. In his case, almost forty years ago, when sperm had...
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Trevor and Barry Get Lucky (4)
"I followed a pie down Main Street at eleven miles an hour, and I'd do it again. After that I was asked in somewhere I've never been asked in before, and I went, which I expect I'll be hearing about. I'd rather not say any more than that. Barry was there. Barry had ham."
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Storms over the Channel
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It's Not the Axe
It’s Not the Axe Kenneth walked through the woods watching the shadowy outline of trees pass by in the stark light of his headlamp. It was just after...
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The Gate under the Moon Chapter 3.
Chapter 3: On to Stump. Colonel Smike returned sooner than Sophrayni expected, riding at a brisk trot with two packhorses behind him. “The king sends...
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Cloud-cuckoo-land Chapter 7.
Chapter Seven. The Middle of Cloud Cuckoo Land. The Cuckoo led the way out of the station. A little way along, they came to a lake. It stretched as...
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Staithes
When a fisherman is chased by a storm..
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