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Steve Mason and the Last Day of School (Part One of Two)

This is the fourth entry in the series of stories at: https://www.abctales.com/collection/steve-masons-school-days Steve Mason and the Last Day of...
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Wait! Go! Tell!

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] What a task for group so weak: God will send them out to speak. Hostile world has not yet heard news they...
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Goatie 35
Another cop appeared juggling two steaming mugs of tea. He wore a short-sleeved shirt taut over a thick red neck and round ball face. He plonked a...
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Arms and the Man

Bullet points.
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Catching Up
Writing was not necessary No cause or even is Just something you did Made mistakes Learned to sneak away And play Games with different rules Grateful...
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Snapshot
His snapshot-update Chandler shot through with sadness, an outsider's take on big city madness, sitting there with time to kill, it's a solipsistic...
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His Bit of Fluff

'There's Dave with his bit of fluff,’ The four men all turned their heads towards the entrance, stared for a few seconds, made a few mocking grunts...
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The good life

It is often stated in response to the question on what we are supposed to do as graceless creatures on this elegant earth. Be a good person. And...
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Autumn Rebound
Driving through the country-side has its moments like right now- eyes at rest silence within a mystery. It struck the hillside with a band of bright...
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Mind Over Matter.

I was at work recently, I was emptying the bin, I was going down the long garden path to the large bins, ready for the binmen to come and empty them...
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Puppy
You were a Chihuahua and you were my pet. You died even though I took you to two vets. Two days from now will be my 52nd birthday. But it will be...
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cello suit no.1 in g major

Some chilling flash fiction
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E.T. ,call us !
Where are E.T. and his pals when we need them? Cell phones are the new karaoke. You have only to watch an over loud performance and you will see the...
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1:4:3 Republic (Part 1)
Treacle. The gravity in The Occam’s Razor’s hangar bay was much heavier than The Destiny’s making every step uncomfortably difficult yet only Lore...
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Missing You (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 31)

In which Archibald makes a shocking discovery and Amber tries out her womanly wiles.
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Flood, then and now

Flood, then and now The providence, I must thank having been born on a riverbank the mighty is the river, miles wide then overall seasons she never...
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Goatie 34
I was the only prisoner to get out of the van when we reached the Police Station at Clydebank. A car blocked the entrance so the van couldn’t reverse...
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Clarabelle and Friends

A close friendship - Free image: from 123F: postage stamp printed by Bhutan, that shows Clarabelle cow visiting Lighthouse at Alexandria, circa 1991.
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The Loneliness of a Cuckoo

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