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Chhota – A cattle herd boy
Chhota – A cattle herd boy Decades back in my village, native the caste system was active. There existed a caste milkman, they are classed. Deal they...
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Imprints
After the slightly harrowing, ‘Thursbitch’, have been reading Marc Chagall’s autobiography, ‘My Life’. Written over a century ago, yet I feel an...
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Adam Hopkins September 1939 - November 2024
Sometimes, panic stops my breath. You’ve always been anxious, my wife says. To comfort me? Or is there a note of impatience? Anxious? Not me. Because...
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How to avoid the seemingly anavoidable
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In a world spun tight with worries, where shadows hint "impossible," we search for ways to slip through the cracks, to dance around the edges of fate...
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People say I'm a dreamer
You meet Walter Mitty at a nondescript café on a drizzly Tuesday afternoon. He’s wearing a beige cardigan, slightly wrinkled, and looks like the kind...
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Oven.
Sunday night I was excited. I was due a text to tell me what slot time our new dishwasher was going to be delivered. Their delivery times were...
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Perverted Wisdom
Perverted Wisdom Born and brought up in a remote rural setup in a village curdled by rivers inhabited by mostly farmers other professionals were a...
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More — or less?
Oliver Twist came some kids to meet, to ask if they’d had enough to eat …
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Bus Pass [but mostly BPL] Get into a Fix
Bus Pass noticed that BPL was not quite herself ever since their last top decker on the X bus. Usually fabulous and scintillating company, BPL had...
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The Calm Before
Friday was the calm before the storm. Calm Ernie, before Storm Bert. The sea in post-workout stretch-mode, was a particularly beautiful grey-green. A...
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The Last Night Chapter 8 Where the sun never sets
The Last Night Chapter 8 Where The Sun Never Sets 25 The cold light of a trillion distant stars speckled the infinite blackness The Strion Concord...
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Isolated (Ch 5)
That dinner felt like a blur… Dear old dad must’ve slipped a perc in between dinner and our usual dry-blunt rotation. Sprawled out, inconsistent...
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Pasture-Cleaners
Beetles that roll up balls of their favourite food source … cattle imported but their poo wasn’t suited to the native dung beetles …
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Yard Sale Chapter 5
The next installment in the book 'Yard Sale'
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Turning on the Lights
bulbs flash across the country
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The Quaint Cottage
The Quaint Cottage By Paul McCann Anto would be there every day in his quaint little cottage by the ocean . You could hear the waves crashing down on...
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Liberal Disaster! by Alfred N.Muggins
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12/11/24 Liberal Disaster, electoral failure, They were so hoping, a woman would actually win in the macho States, But no chance, they prefer the...
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He's
He's a jazz poet and a blues poet He's a nothing to lose poet He sits there smoking, sometimes drunk Listening to Miles, Mingus and Monk Scrawling...
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Off the rails (IP)
I did not come to Dr. Jennings of my own volition. It was my wife’s idea, and she insisted upon it with such an air of resolve that I had no choice...
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My Not So Humble Opinions
When I was a child, there were certain big events that sent the atmosphere shimmering. The new Bond, being one of them. (Or, Bond being the Big...
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