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Palm Sunday (7)

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Praise to the gentle King, on a donkey riding in; Many hoping He would bring end of Roman rule. But His work...
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A hundred moments in autism - Terrence Oblong’s Messy handwriting

It was the start of the new school year. I was excited. I was now really old, I was eight, which was nearly double figures. However, as I joined my...
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A hundred moments in autism - Terrence goes to Tescos

I am home alone for the bank holiday weekend, with Mrs Oblong away rehearsing with her comedy partner. I spend the weekend slobbing about in the same...
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A hundred moments in autism - Terrence Oblong's feet

I am alone, watching TV after a tough day at work. Mrs Oblong is out, being hilarious somewhere (she’s a stand-up comic). To help me unfurl, I remove...
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Early

It started in November. 5:15, then 5:00. His body dragged him from the sheets as though a debt had just come due. He made the coffee. Drove to work...
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II. Processing - Part Three

She sat at a table. She drank a second cup of water. She held the clipboard. She watched. The facility ran the way a warehouse runs — calibrated,...
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Different perspectives

No idea what it involves? Not going along with the doom-doom stories Not counting aloud the seconds until daybreaks when our planet deflates like a...

Those Three Words

It was a hot summer night and the beach was burning; a perfect day. She was perfect. The sea glistened on her, salt like diamonds as her heat turned...
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"I Believe"

Frankie Laine: 3rd July to 13th August 1953
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Penny’s Pass the Story Part 6

Part 5 at: https://www.abctales.com/story/makis/pennys-pass-story-part-five Penny’s Pass the Parcel - Part 6 Back at the station, Sheriff Milton...

Drinking Deeply at the Golden Fleece

Public services these days are vast and costly. Some are essential, and some are.... Well. How do we pay for them? Although some government income is...
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Bron-26

Continued from Chapter 25: Bron-25 | ABCtales It was thirty-five years ago, maybe to the very day. They’d all been at Menai Bridge Fair, him, Gwynfor...
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Deadlock Chronicle

Promise me… No matter what… Keep looking up. I shut my eyes, trying to bury her voice where it couldn’t reach me. “It’s not too late, you know,"...
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The Call Of Death (IP)

It was a misty, damp morning when the call came. My mobile sprang to life and woke me from my dreams with a start. The screen was bright and...

Faith, Hope … Love

Faith and hope enable love … F earlessness A rises…
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"I'm Walking Behind You"

Eddie Fisher with Sally Sweetland: 26 th June to 2 nd July 1953
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The secrete temple ordained by God

He told me about the legend of the divine creature which housed breathtaking features, her body molded from clay to create the temple that not even...

The Unconvetional Mistress

Have you no trepidation for the being that graced you with the very epistemology longed for by the creatures subservient to you? Are you the hyena...
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Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (16)

Part 15 at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/prophesy-immortal-witch-15 THE GRIMOIRE Nadeem Potter loved nothing more than time spent in the...
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Splinters uit die Vuur

Ancient Folklore of the San People of the Namib and Kalahari Original Afrikaans and German from oral Khoisan tradition Temporary withheld due to...

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