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The Cart Shed
In Sissinghurst, where gardens dream, Cranbrook’s lanes and gentle stream, There rests a place both quaint and rare, A gatehouse old with country air...
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Holidays in Time 1
Some very strange things had been going on outside my neighbour's house. All sorts of unfamliar vehicles were pulling up in his designated parking...
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Merman
Fishhooks in your pocket jangle as you wade away to the fog-pressed pier. You use a knife to descale fish, split bone. The kettle screams, I flinch—...
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Season of Mists
We walk through the park, holding hands, out of habit. Together, apart. The November air has that kind of stillness you only get in autumn. Not just...
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I HATE YOU!!!
I am loyal, through the good times and the bad, the highs and the lows. I am the same with my car insurance, I would just stick with what I know. So...
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Xion Island Zero: Chapter 39
The smell hit Nash. It made his throat close. His eyes watered. Then it twisted, punching him in the throat. It was acrid and human. The stench raged...
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After the Geese
After the Geese The last of the geese have flown, migratory release, a summer sown, snows due soon, polar winds biting, phases of the moon, new year...
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Dazzle us with simplicity
The moment the musician steps from the wings onto the stage, he knows something is profoundly wrong. Where he usually strides with ease and...
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The Old Blue Chair
The Old Blue Chair By Paul McCann Nazareem Deanby was a very wealthy young man who had made his fortune by taking advantage of people down on their...
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Lausanne Epilogue
Some mornings I wake before the alarm. The dog lifts her head, watches me for a second, then exhales and settles back into herself. I sit there in...
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Rue (following on from Funeral Games)
Now that the central figures were gone, the anger hollowed into silence. The performance had ended. No one was left to fight but ghosts. I found...
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Magic Shampoo VI
Derek stared at Kim's body for a long time. -Well, are we going to have sex? -No. I don't want that from you. Can't we just talk? -What do you want...
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Funeral Games
The worst part about my father’s death wasn’t the death. It was the circus that formed around it — a slow-moving horror of corridors, signatures,...
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Collecting Pocket Calculators
I collect old calculating machines for a hobby, anything, like shop counter adding, specialised scientific calculators, financial ones etc. Any old...
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After Geneva
There’s a kind of comfort in failure. It softens the edges of expectation. My father welcomed me home like a prophecy fulfilled. I hadn’t just...
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Watching You Chapters Twenty-Five and Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Five Black’s denims were filthy, dyed the same liquid brown as the canal. They no longer felt soggy, but his legs stung as though he’d...
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What do grown-ups mean by a ‘short’ walk?
Kick a ball and climb a tree – [‘If Daddy says it’ll take about twenty, that means it’s probably twice that far – say forty mins. to reach our car.’] …
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The Patrolman - 32
Mr. Slate hung up the payphone and headed back to his apartment building.
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Travelling to Dystopia (Time Tunnel Tale # 4)
It is funny when you think of it in terms of 2023, but back in 1984, workers still went for a drink at lunchtime, in fact it was really the ‘norm’ of...
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Not Waving But Lunch
I watched my beetles, as they waved their little legs and beetled round the pond. You learn a lot by just watching. For example, I now know that...
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