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Angola Gaffletter Chapter 2
Chapter Two. Miss Ganner’s Finest Pupil. By the time Angola Muppert turned twelve, she had become something of a local legend. Nether Wintle was not...
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Another attempt at Bloody, Brawling Business CH5
Newton fiddled with the lighter in his pocket, turning it between his fingers as he sat in the living room, anticipating the doorbell’s ring. It came...
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The First Letter
Early one morning the small green lights went out. No thunder in it: only the hush a house makes when the furnace quits. They lifted their phones...
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Lessons from Elijah
Keen sense of the majesty of Him whom we serve… for service better equip.
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Remember Love
Remember Love By Paul McCann If you feel unwanted there’s something i want you to know remember love is looking it will not let you go Without love...
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My Car
PHOTO: Off to a party (1988) in my Oh-so-trusty chariot. My Car Red used to be my favourite colour. I’d just get Tinkerbell (my 1983 Mitsubishi Colt...
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Count Twice (1)
The first bus came through at five fifty, and Dail Prosser was folded and swept before its headlights crossed the depot fence. He worked in a fixed...
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Thus spake the Angel Anarchica
Let there be darkness, also, to hide secret things, and to give modern eyes rest from the constant light, public exposure, moral judgement,...
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Kazakh Stan and Kazakh Olly
Proving to the world that there was more to my life than Kazakhstan dancing ladies during the final sixteen days of July.
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Blackpool
Blackpool The weight of it is still present. A dropped book from a tenement. Sealed and unread, dared to be slit. A music hall town of tea leaves,...
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Guffin Gary Grover
The Wilcox gang was the most feared in school. Their leader, of course, was Barry Wilcox, Baz if he liked you, and you’d better be sure he liked you...
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The only man in the convent.
Fiacre gets off his bike and leans on it to watch the beginning of another day, the making of a morning. Not the slightest, quietest breeze rises to...
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Lost
When the worst has happened, how do we find our best? When the rest just drifted away— screamshot: days and nights of false-flag bar fights, keeping...
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Smooth
All the men wear straight leg chino shorts in tan and khaki and beige. They pair them with a polo shirt, usually navy; sunglasses with gold logos...
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The Aquisitioner of Sound
We sat back to listen. He put the CD on the sound system – state of the art, sounds emerged from every corner of the room. “Jake Liscombe, Trumpet...
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Luke & Finley go to the zoo
Luke and Finley go to the zoo It was a special day for Luke and Finley. Mom and dad were going to take them to the Buffalo Zoo. Neither of the...
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1.1 The Male Rate
Mr Rat settled into his usual spot by the window. He was dressed meticulously in tight blue jeans, a white shirt and brand-new, high-top sneakers. He...
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He rose early every morning
Enricho rose early every morning to rob the tourist buses. He set his alarm for 5.45, it was still dark outside, even in the height of summer. He’d...
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Micah or the end of Magic. Chapter 5.
Chapter 5. A Dragon Calls. Jek would not stay in Calizone’s cottage when daybreak came. As soon as the sky began to lighten, he slipped back into the...
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Angola Gaffletter Chapter 1.
Chapter One. Beginnings. In the year 1872, Corning Muppert’s draper’s shop stood proudly on Nether Wintle’s High Street. Its glass windows were...
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