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Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (21)
Part 20 at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/prophesy-immortal-witch-20 An effusive afternoon sun splashed across library walls like...
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Where art thy Foe?
Your foes are beings that feed from your naivety and need for comfort leaving you to slave away your virtues for a grain of rice. Let your heart not...
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Paradise through the eye of a noose
I do not wish to alarm you with my ghastly contemplations about my demise, but I thought it be wise to share my misunderstood thoughts. My fellow...
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The Power of Poetry
I racked my brain, words never came, I shook my head, I thought the same, I believed I spoke what they call a good game, The game of poetry. I...
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The Torturer's Apprentice
The door was more than anything Mika could have imagined a door to a dungeon could be. Much more. Then again, he'd never seen a door to a dungeon...
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Glenda the Wendle Chapter 5 part 2
Glenda looked carefully at the creature in front of her. It was about half her height, covered in long white hair. It had long arms and very large...
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Glenda the Wendle Chapter 5 part 1
Chapter 5. Glenda the Wendle Gets Cold Feet. Like many of the creatures of Feggy Wood, Wendles pass the winter months fast asleep. Glenda and Glen...
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Amanderella Gottsnobbler and the Bangolin Tree Chapter 14
Chapter 14. Up the River Burko. Brimblewick brought the Good Intentions alongside a small jetty where the river narrowed into green shadow. “This is...
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Fear, fear the Reaper
Some say "don't fear the reaper" but I say fear, fear the reaper The reaper means no more pho soup with friends, no more plum offices or career...
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The Boffin
This poem won 3rd prize in the “Inner City Life” Literary Competition 2004 and was inspired by a visit to Boffin's Books in 2004. I have sadly learnt...
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Banished To Earth Splintered Souls Book One
Banished To Earth Splintered Souls Book One Chapter One 1 Chase Gillette was only twenty-two, but he already had a substantial bank account and a...
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Another Brick In The Wall: December 1979 - January 1980
Winter arrived, sharp-edged and grey. Frost clung to the pavements and frozen puddles shone like thin films of glass. The bitter air smelled of coal...
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Forty days after Easter Sunday …
Jesus – once dead – alive again: for 40 days met, ate with them but came and went with powers new and taught them that they’d work to do to … So today is called Ascension Day …
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Glenda the Wendle Chapter 4
Chapter 4. Glenda the Wendle and Big Bad Bob the Fenwangler After lunch, Glenda looked out from her home across Feggy Wood. It was one of those clear...
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Glenda the Wendle Chapter 3
Chapter 3. GLENDA and the sad noise Glenda woke very early. It was a lovely, sunny morning. The night before, the wind had howled and shrieked around...
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Amanderella Gottsnobbler and the Bangolin Tree Chapter 13
Chapter 13. Harbour Hopping Part 2 Amanderella spent the rest of the day watching the gulls circling over the ship’s mast and wondering how they...
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Murder Most Foul
Damn. I just killed her. Just like that. She forced me to do it, of course. Her actions, her tendencies, her personality. With a terrible inevitably...
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Tell
I promise to write him letters. I promise to write letters that use distinctive quotes from literature. I promise to use footnotes to firmly embed...
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Chains Forged in Life
Dickens was on to something; these chains were forged alone. Not of greed, nor malice but of guilt and regret. Feel their weight, the tension that...
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Glenda the Wendle Chapter 2
Chapter 2. THE Wendle ball. Glenda the Wendle wended her way through Feggy Wood. She was feeling very sad and sorry for herself. Try as she might,...
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