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The Way We Heard: Singing the Blues
This short story was inspired by Singin the Blues (Tommy Steele) It was written a long time after that , but for some reason the song was played on...
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Bron-37
Continued from Chapter 36: Bron-36 | ABCtales “Bit of a bummer, the landlord finding out about Petouche, like that,” said Grace. “I mean, we always...
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Amanderella Gottsnobbler and the Bangolin Tree Chapter 4
Chapter 4. Wealth beyond Imagination. Amanderella set out the next morning in her expedition clothes, which were clean but unmistakably practical...
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Out in the Styx
Like most women I imagine, I have often had males, of all ages, offer me their seat on the train or bus, or offered to carry my suitcase up/down...
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T-Cut on the A-Bomb
All the things I saw, did, said, smelt or read about during the first fifteen days of April.
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The World That Was
‘You have probably read in your history books about what in olden times were called the seasons’ The children nodded their heads. ‘There were four of...
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Ghosts
I remember the jumps of Evel Kneaval. And there was once a cheese with a living weevil. Never a week without receiving a tearful ear full. And...
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Mother of the light
Mother of the light by Paul McCann Mother of the light the sun shimmered and then it spun around in the sky when you came, like the herald of a...
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May Weather Haiku
Five days into May- Blossoms falling like snowflakes- Still the sky is grey!
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'How Bloody Much'
The tale of a Yorkshireman stunned at the petrol pump.
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Amanderella Gottsnobbler and the Bangolin Tree Chapter 3
Chapter 3. Shopping. Amanderella rose early the next morning, as explorers do, and looked over her clothes like a captain checking his crew before a...
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May the Second 1933
The birth of a legend.
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May Day Evening at Trefin
May day evening arrived once more at Trefin, north-west Pembrokeshire coast: evening sunlight on the sea and cliffs, colour erupts on these cliff...
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The Apple
Hanging on the oldest tree, The wind-tossed apple, Nice with Brie. So big and green, the juicy treat, I saw myself in its cheek. On biting through...
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"Answer Me"
Frankie Laine: 13 th November to 10 th December 1953
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Beltane
A Celtic pagan May Day ceremony drove cattle between fires and over hot embers to purify and ensure prosperity and fertility.
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Amanderella Gottsnobbler and the Bangolin Tree Chapter 2
Chapter 2. A Home Visit. The pad was her expedition stationery, the waterproof kind that had once survived a week in the Amazon wedged under a...
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