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yeah well, sticks and stones and all that... sure... Image source is flicker https://www.flickr.com/photos/londonmatt/27634194840 photo by Matt Brown used in acc. w/ Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)
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Carry On, Richard

Maspeth, Queens, NYC 1967 We moved to the borough of Queens in 1967 when I was thirteen years old. It was the first time we lived in a house. An...
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The 3DO
I remember what happened 24 years ago. I went to Walmart and I bought a 3DO. The 3DO was a video game console and it was 32 Bit. Contrary to what...
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Chapter 3 Excerpt-Ad Memoria
A fleeting light. Where was she. A dream passing through a dream. Awakening. Reaching the surface as she felt the dream beginning to drown her...
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We need a new earth

… However much our world puts right pollution, wars, can’t clear all blight …
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The Wind Sways
in a wildwood of breaths pushing handily against tall-stemmed lilies. Yellow colours adopting attention from a vase of inspired energy until...
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Orange and blue
Still trying to get my head around something
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If Video Games Were Like Crack
If video games were like crack, I would've been dead long ago. If video games were like crack, I would be buried six feet below. If video games were...
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Talking to My Mother

Talking to my mother is easier now she is dead - she’d put me into orbit but I was more of a spin-off - not an asteroid or meteorite on a trajectory...
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No ghosts here

My grandad’s house – I went there so many times in real life and so many times in my dreams. Then it was remarkable, that pebble dashed ex-council...
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Colours for Kids 10)

Coal and soot and the sky at night (before the moon has risen to shed some light), the patches on a panda, dark stripes across the zebra, the telly...
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Green Eyed Monster

They say everything is temporary, But with money families should be wary! He’s having money troubles, but aren’t we all? When she gives him money, I...
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Why I Never Woke (Sleeping Beauty Speaks)
It is not a kiss I'm waiting for. Something less. The palace is deserted, servants dead. When heroes came to break the spell, the threat of...
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Paved with Mirrors (Part 3 of 3)

Solshae had taken Lin to be joking or fantasising at first, but she realised quickly that she was in earnest, on both of their accounts. “How?” she...
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Paved with Mirrors (Part 2 of 3)

Life was easy in the Omnion household, as easy as she’d been promised it would be, and Solshae was given all the trifles she’d been lead to expect:...
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Paved with Mirrors (Part 1 of 3)

She worked at the mill when she first came to town, and nothing was what she had expected. She had imagined in Adrios a city of wonder, of light,...
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All Them Monkeys, All Them Bears

All them monkeys, all them bears, O my goodness, how they stare. How they gnash, to what effect, call the doctor, fetch the vet! Please sedate that...
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The Wind 2
is a whisperer evolving from stirring at birth to ruffling dormant leaves shaking with glee and a garden of trees meld into newly acquired shapes...
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The Picture Ranch 54

Where else would you get rid of an "Admiral's" body? Image source is U.S. National Archives and Records Administration and dated 1923 normally that's PD for U.S. sourced stuff. I guess the USN would be more upset about the content than the use of this graphic.
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Autmn's faces

Autumn – a time of change and chills. Sometimes a glowing summer glimpse … sometimes a sodden grey …
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