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Runaway Mother chapter 9

Could it be? Is Mary finally sticking up for herself?
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Snotman in Trouble: Part Two

Snotman rocked to and fro, eyes blinded and breathing laboured under a blanket of bubbling excrement. He waited for the inevitable coup de gras; a...

Ambition, At school days

Ambition, At school days During my days at school essay- writing was a tool to enrich the skill of expression then to aid the art of contemplation...
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You Smell

The flickering, fluorescent lights hummed. Charcoal and candyfloss scented the air. Alice winced as perfume invaded. Lucy was kind but pungent. Alice...

Sleeping With The Moon

Sleeping With The Moon By Paul McCann Hello Mr Moonshine it’s nice to be with you, I’m sitting here all by myself with nothing else to do , I’m so...
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White Feather

White Feather He was only sixteen When she handed him a white feather Not yet in uniform Trudging through the wet winter weather He was tall for his...

Beautiful Mary

family so far away don't see them it is just the way it is i wonder how you are how you still feel beautiful mary your world getting harder every day...
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Batman The Murderer

Batman took Aunt Harriet to the Batcave where nobody could hear her shout. She learned that Bruce Wayne is Batman and she was rubbed out. When Bruce...
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The Last Door

“One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.” Friedrich Nietzsche The Last Door The moon shone in a pitch-black sky, its...
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Bronte's Inferno XXIV (I Don't Dream of Dollars)

So, The Editor-At-Large reveals a little, if not much. I made the image at canva.com

Runaway Mother chapter 8

After Mary sits Ethan down with his snack the next day, she almost jumps at the phone the second it starts ringing. Zach and I had a conversation...
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Chinese Water Deer

Glancing around in silence, extreme weather at start of evening under strange winter sky; that's bruised in colours blackberry and gold, hiding...
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Ivy

The curse kicks in every September. I wish my family had warned me but they don’t like to talk about it. Maybe they’re ashamed – our dirty family...
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Guard!!

Fire, fire burning bright in the forest day and night damaging the national park – from where came igniting spark? … ( with apologies to William Blake)
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Good Morning c/o Hurricane Fiona

It’s quiet. 5 am. I had a good sleep for the 7 th night. Power still out in our apt. A disaster they say with thousands of trees fallen in our Town...

Humans. Part One.

From teething to growing pains. From severe acne, to hormones. There is worry, stress and ulcers. Arthritis, tennis elbow, and clicking fingers...

Life and Times of a Priestess : Ch.14 : The New Lovers : Part 3

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Priestess Danella and Wealthy Industrialist Valery encourage their friends to further exploration in traditional Dumis, the capital of an Empire without a monarch. This is set in an alternative world, not dissimilar to our own, perhaps a century or more before now.
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Wildflowers

"There are too many of them growing. They're in the wrong place. If you aren't careful, they'll take over." Resilience and strength are ignored...
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Wealth

The water doesn't matter And neither do the trees The earth is ripe for fracking Who cares about the bees? Don't worry for the future We're living in...
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Poem of the week

Legacy

One day the room you are in will be here And you will not. The tidying you have not done will remain, A reminder that no-one dies with a completed to...
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