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The Provincial Little Caterpillar
The caterpillar hatched from his tiny yellow egg, which was on the underside of a large leaf. He hatched at exactly a millimeter long, and I’m...
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Then, My Village
Then, My Village The pathos of a passerby in his call at a pitch high scared by his loneliness, and beasts howling in the darkness in the late hour...
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Devil's Advocate (Part Two of Three)
Part One at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/devils-advocate Devil’s Advocate (Part Two of Three) It had been a long day and nurse Abbott...
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Grizzly Tragedy
Just a few feet off-trail was all it was- he heard the snap in his ankle – falling across an avalanche of rock brought his hiking partner – spent...
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Beneath My Favourite Tree
In summer that's still and so silent, squirrel munches till rustle of swish from tall hazelnut tree as blackbird catches sight of me, my intention...
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8.2 In the Deep
I got dressed without even washing and zoomed on my motorbike up the Havana streets to Orange Hill taking Camino Costero in the rush hour. I couldn’t...
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Raymond
Raymond The season brings the oldness of a year. A light straining out from a coal morning. The radio wears a cardigan with news of how much the...
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Mother Of Unending Love
Mother Of Unending Love By Paul McCann Mother of unending love Just like the sky above you are always there within view , In that high place there I...
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Trees
Ancient, iconic and majestic
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Authority
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] “All authority in heaven and on earth to Me is given”. While on earth, Jesus, the Lord food created, sight … one day …
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8.1 In the Deep
I heard those bangs on the door loud as thunder. I opened my eyes buried in naked skin of a soft woman. “Mish! Shoppie! Mish!” “Stay calm! Don’t open...
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I’m A Twenty First Century Man
I’m A Twenty First Century Man By Paul McCann I arrived on a hill from my travels far away from the places I’ve seen to here where I’ve been and gone...
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Time Reversal
A friend of mine watches his wedding videos saturday afternoons but he looks at them in reverse. He says he always cries at the part where he gives...
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7.2 Thru the Fire
Sophie Nadz addressed the attendees, “Alright, we are gathered here this evening to renegotiate on the matter of the exchange of lots where I dispute...
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Diaspora
When evening slides downward and shadows creep into view you can hear the lilting tunes from loons hoarding a night sky. There is no comfort in...
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1:4:4 Cyenzeit (Part 2)
A lot had changed for them since The Three Year Month; there was a confidence about Luscillus that had not been present the last time Lore...
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The Parasite: Chapter Five - Final Chapter
V: Sin-Eater His father led the way, meandering out of the hamlet and onto the steep track that led to Alice’s. Cillian watched his father’s head, a...
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Wade in the Water (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 37)
In which Frankie disturbs Chantelle, in more ways than one, and Archibald seeks a fresh start.
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The Misanthropist
Mr. Drabble, Would rather play Scrabble, Than waste his time with the humdrum 'rabble'. Not for him, the tiresome babble. Not for him, the endless...
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The Parasite: Chapter Four
IV: Two Shots That’s what it’d take, he figured. Two shots. One, if the old weathered Mauser hadn’t been tattered and timeworn from years of neglect...
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