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Paperback finally published!

By Alexander Moore on Sun, 09 Jun 2024

Hi folks! I've just published a horror short story collection on Amazon (free on KU). It is also available in paperback. I've uploaded the...

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Boreas 1, Helios Nil

By purplehaze on Sun, 09 Jun 2024

Boreas has been desperate to blow off all our coats. Poor weather forecasts, causing many incorrect layering decisions, mean we’re either freezing or...

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This Sort of Thing - May 2024 - Three Dart Finish

By Turlough on Sun, 09 Jun 2024

Words are stupid, words are fun. Words can ward off fierce nuns.

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Drifting with the crowd

By Rhiannonw on Sun, 09 Jun 2024

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Without a thought to safety (they didn’t see him go) the child drifted away from them, assumed that they...

Rest In Peace, Hazel - Part IV

By randy-johnson on Sun, 09 Jun 2024

You died half a year ago tonight and I had to say goodbye. It was six months ago when I watched you die. It's never easy when a man loses a dog as...

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My beautiful sad friend

By Magnolia Fay on Sat, 08 Jun 2024

I got sad news about the mental health of a friend who is extremely dear to me. So I just wrote them down. It's incredible how this kind of circumstance can make it clear how fiercely we love people.

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Truth in Advertising- public media

By jxmartin on Sat, 08 Jun 2024

Give the Media a Break In public forums, discussing errors in the mainstream media reporting, one is reminded of the famous “Dewey defeats Truman”...

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More Offa’s Dyke views and Nosey young cattle @ Knighton

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 08 Jun 2024

29/5/24 South from Knighton Offa’s Dyke path (not Kington this time, further north) Steep uphill through shady green woods, mossy tree bases. Out to...

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Open

By johnshade on Sat, 08 Jun 2024

Sex without love Is like punching water, grabbing sand. Bodies slam but never meet. Hungry tongues never taste The sweet concoction of me in you, You...

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Beauty awakens the soul to act

By Itane Vero on Sat, 08 Jun 2024

“I will finally tell you my big secret,” her mother said. Without emotion, without any embarrassment. As if she were telling her daughter what...

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Bus Pass Goes Adventuring Again

By purplehaze on Sat, 08 Jun 2024

Regrettably, Bus Pass was unable to attend the society wedding of the century, due to a prior commitment to take the ‘jeep’ to Turriff for groceries...

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1:5:2 Fate (Part 2)

By Lore on Fri, 07 Jun 2024

Crait wasted no time getting comfortable. They lounged in the centre stage as if they had owned The Destiny for years. Char appeared for a moment...

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Suggested Ways of Starting a Novel

By drkevin on Fri, 07 Jun 2024

"Congratulations are in order I believe, Egbert?" "Oh yes! Thank you very much. Triplets born early this morning." "Super! I wonder which one looks...

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Parcel for you....Part 27

By Jane Hyphen on Fri, 07 Jun 2024

Vanessa laughed. It was late and she was too tired for anger to surface but vulnerable to silly exhausted giggles. The insinuation was absurd and if...

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9 Room 13

By Ewan on Fri, 07 Jun 2024

Room 13 Unlucky - or maybe lucky - for some. That's it for the week, maybe more on Monday. Image made at canva.com.

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8 That's Veterans for You

By Ewan on Fri, 07 Jun 2024

And some more... None of the characters are real, but some of the things they say and do have been done... By someone. Write what you know, eh? Image made at canva.com

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New Moon in Gemini - Changing Perception

By purplehaze on Fri, 07 Jun 2024

It was a cleansed and purified white-blue day. Long walk to the next village, under the new moon. Rain forecast. The light, a shifting combination of...