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Practice Night

A story of how hope springs eternal in the band room.
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Amanderellaand the Punctual Ghost Chapter 4.
Chapter 4. At Boddals. The landlord accompanied Amanderella to the door. “Sorry, “he said quietly “If I turned him out, I’d have to give him his...
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Banished To Earth Book Two, A Dragon King? (40)

Chapter 68 137 The search for Stayner suddenly felt hollow, pointless. Killing him was serving them. Ruling this planet was also serving them. He was...
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Monkey Puzzle
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Searching for love
Searching for love by Paul McCann Searching for love it’s so elusive : leaves me wondering every day and night. Between me and you it’s unobtrusive...
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Chapter 11 - The darkness of one's mind
Darkness. I can’t see anything. Only us… The voices. Familiar. Scary. Friends? Only us… It’s true. They’ve been there with me. There for you. For as...
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Heatwave
A breeze rustles reeds, greens almost white caught in the incessant sun. Even the blue of the sky seems faded. Too many washes. Are the birds there?...
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The Alfred Muggins' Diaries : June 2026 Part 1 : Trumpy's Search For Peace, and The World Cup
26/6/2026 Sitting in an English Garden, not waiting for the sun to shine, for the sun has been here all day and they are all in the middle of, or...
The Way We Heard: What Do You Want (December 1959)

"These youngsters, these days, they think they know everything." Maybe that's cause for hope.
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Wirl's End Chapter 6.
Chapter Six. The Cottages by the Gate. The cottage on the right of the Gate looked to be the cleanest, so they went inside and made themselves as...
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Amanderellaand the Punctual Ghost Chapter 3,
Chapter 3. Nether Bramblewick. She had not gone more than a hundred yards when the peaceful lane was disturbed by a deep, throaty rumble behind her,...
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Banished To Earth Book Two, A Dragon King? (39)

133 Banished To Earth, A Dragon King? Chapter 67 Several days before Davin escaped from Chase and reunited with Pry, Chase and Mabel stepped out of a...
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The Way We Heard: Wannabe (1996)

What Fran wants is peace and quiet and a Chicken Tikka Masala. Or does she?
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Little Christmas Tree (IP)
Faith, Hope and Love In this house we always made a big thing of Christmas with a tree and plentiful colourful decorations and the traditional...
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Wirl's End Chapter 5.
Chapter Five. Calizone. When they reached the place where Brian and James had first met, the riders stopped and dismounted. “Right,” the leader...
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Amanderellaand the Punctual Ghost Chapter 2.
Chapter 2. Amanderella gets ready. Lady Amanderella Gottsnobbler had been giving lectures in all sorts of places from dusty schoolrooms to draughty...
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The Tea Break

Before 1952, most of the popular music on BBC radio was from the American hit parade. This is a story of how it influenced every day life in war torn Sheffield. I didn't post it under The Way We Heard title, as it doesn't technically qualify.
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Undisturbed (3)

The cutters pulled her right shoulder down and she changed hands at the door of Building Two and changed back. Concrete held the cold and gave it up...
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America's Joe Biden was a misunderstood success, not a flop
America's Biden Administration, from its top embodiment in merry Joe himself, to the thousands of energetic and educated civil servants that was its...
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A Better World

Remembering the most recent US election in 2024 A Better World I dreamt of a better world, of Satchmo and red roses too, no slings and arrows hurled...
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