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Boatman's dream 13
One of us
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Message Seen & Heard

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] We all observe the heavens, their awesome structure see: design, amazing power, how could such wonder be? … But clearer is the message …
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Cloud in head

Although the sun is hanging in the sky like a bookkeeper that just signed up for the workshop 'the art of clowning', I don't feel that way at all. My...
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Dead Men Tell No Tales

He would come to the end of my bed, sometimes, late at night. Late, when the night itself was perfectly dark, but the light coming in from the window...
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Chapter 1 *Edited*
What is a Shifter? A Shifter is a person who has been injected with animal DNA. Although one could be injected with the DNA of an animal, it does not make them a Shifter: only when that DNA becomes one with the person’s own does that person become a Shifter with the ability to change into the selected animal...
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The Difference Between Efficiency and Innovation

A man graduated from a well known university with a reasonably large amount of debt, but with an engineering internship at a solar cell manufacturing...
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My Truth
(A rant of angst the twenty something version of me thought the world should know. I must say that he comes off a little arrogant.) Now I shall speak...
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Lenny Mass's Branhal School Diary - Tuesday 25 November
Tuesday 25 November We didn't have any of our usual teachers today. At form time, there was no Mrs Burns. Instead, there was a tall, glaring woman...
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The Scrambled Detective - A Craven Danger Mystery

The Scrambled Detective All my life has been a silly dream with a lousy pay day and plenty of days off. Maybe I wasn’t born to be a detective at all...
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mcdonalds
mcdonalds we broke the noiseless lift with small-talk. she mentioned copd training, i recommended an Italian restaurant i had not long left. she said...
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the loneliness of the long distance diner
the loneliness of the long distance diner the crisp, white linen almost holds my gaze, your empty chair – silent in the flickering light. we dine by...
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Prerna
It was as if all the time she was with someone else, and for her he rarely existed, and it dawned on her one day while she earnestly sat in front of...
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Sweet and Sour at Number 10

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Hearts Of Chalk

This is (dis)respectfully dedicated to all those teachers in the past who should never have set foot in the classroom after their own schooldays ended. triolet + pentametric chant + 2 haiku
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Lumière de l'amour
Lumière de l'amour, retour à la terre. Vive la voix de la paix mais pas le bruit brutal de la nuit. Chaîne la chien de la haine! Délier le lion d'...
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Ivy

Ivy (A fairy tale for grown-ups) Ivy is taking over the north facing wall of the cottage; working its green tendrils into the loose mortar, wheedling...
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Boatman's dream 12
Down to the real business
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Boatman's dream 11
Formal business
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AN EXTRACT FROM MY NOVEL- UNTITLED
A free spirit Agry village in Turannisia. “The North-easterly wind stirred rings of dust from the parched earth. It brought the stench of death, foul...
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The Apple-elf
The Apple-elf is a strange kind of creature, a little bigger than a fairy but a little smaller than a gnome who steals things and leaves apples in...
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