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Swan Song

Swan Song The mirror was cracked and smeary. Some of the lights around its edge flickered as though trying to send some sort of Morse Code message...
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Yarns and Yawns
A good start with Bonkers TV today. A certifiable bloke popped up asking the questions. Every point made was accompanied with windmill gestures (not...
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They have decided they might get a dog
It had been their ‘on the way home from work’ pub conversation. Let’s both make a list of pros and cons. Long walks in parks hand in hand, saying ‘...
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Marc with a c
He reads out the long number of his card, the sort code, the expiry date, ‘422, Natwest, Marc with a c, Martin with a y, Jonsson with no h and two ns...
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(two tall mountains)
A series of postcards of mountain ranges, the Appalachians and the Southern Alps, all of them stamped and posted to an address in Glasgow’s Southside...
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Five days before he was crucified

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] The King, a kind and gentle King, rides in upon an ass – a borrowed ass – he nothing owned: The prophecy had...
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15.2 The Silver Fox
After two hours, he was steered to the minister’s private office. The walls of the entrance hall and the rest of the interior walls were painted in...
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When Did Our World Become SO Complicated?

Over the years, we have bought cheap new cookers always gas. Usually when we have bought them, they have a dent in them or a scratch on it somewhere...
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Ralph Monkton Lives!

Okay, a bit of cheek, as in not being quite a nonce word, but I may be forgiven for inventing a nonce character, who has at times since come in handy. This is a (mostly) a true story, the facts have only been changed to enhance poetic licence.
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Boy meets girl
Boy meets girl. First week at uni. Boy and girl indifferent to each other. Boy introduces girl to another boy. Boy meets another girl. Girl drinks...
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Wordrush, thoughtcess

Shoot from the hip, quick have your say so many openings to comment today, don’t pause for thought, or listen – you ought to think of the reasons...
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Is this the real life?

These are the most beautiful moments of his day. When the blue-white light falls gently and benevolently on the worn cherry wood parquet floor. So...
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15.1 The Silver Fox
Angelozzi Tetriverdzi was born to a poor family in the village of Mamati in Guria, western Georgia, on 25 th January 1928. A hardworking lad who...
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Dear Life,
Life: Dear Life, isn't it any wonder? Life is filled with pain, Pains that can be turned into powers: When we realize and accept its necessity,...
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1:4:10 Crait (Part 1)
Silence. She hadn’t spoken since. For that matter, she hadn’t woken up since either. She slept the sleep of the dead. Sam had tried everything to...
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Noble Friend
The righteous will grow as a great cedar in the promised land planted by flowing waters, deeply rooted as a mighty oak May God grant you good health...
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I Shot the Sheriff ('Dead Reckoning' series - Part 3)

Detective Inspector Wood has a 'war wound' in need of attention whilst D.S. Stone has spotted someone 'known to the police'.
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14.3 Journey of Ascension
Those New York papers that he contributed with his articles over the years remained silent after learning Tyler Friesen was missing since March. John...
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What's Not Written
How can I prepare to welcome new verses when lapse of memory chases days and nights; voices floating; emotions longing to be carried in flight,...
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The Spa
The Spa I blame him. Why didn't he see? Surely there were enough clues. At first, in the beginning, we were so close. Soul mates! What a ridiculous...
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