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An Unexpected Response
An amorous pursuit.
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the ten-minute bore
Christmas-Eve was a big thing in the Blaksketts. We are at the proud tip of a long peninsula leading to nowhere. You had the Christmas lights on...
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The Weather Sensitive
'He breaks his bread and the dark river swells...'
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04.4 The Wolf Pack
That night, at the house 1051 on Route 604 in Santa Rosa, there came a telephone call and Castillo was engaged in a hot unfriendly conversation. Tony...
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Wishes
yes, wishes. image source pixabay.com
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Triptych
watching. image is public domain.
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Overheard in Elland Park Wood
...but only by listening very carefully. Image by Richard Kay / Gateposts in Elland Park Wood licence CC by SA 2.0
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Teddy
‘Daddy, daddy, daddy,’ Louise repeated tapping her father’s shoulder. When he opened his eyes, she smiled at him and asked him to bring her to the...
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Maria and the Bellasis Family 28
I am enjoying my work with the Royal Embroiderers. I recently met a very interesting widow, Mrs. Henrietta Grace Smyth Baden-Powell. Her husband...
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All that Matters
Kin could have been Kinsom. Jadda found it disturbing. Every time she looked at him, she would at first see the young man who’d come to her on...
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In My African Childhood...
In My African childhood We lived next door to a ‘church’, could hear their fervent chest-beating, shouting at all times of the day and night. So...
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Hidden Capacity
Yesterday, we met. For the first time, we actually spoke to each other. How long have we been together? And yet, yesterday was the first time we...
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Don't You Just Hate It When.......
You go to someone’s house and they say to you, “You have to take off your shoes before you come in.” I went to my brother’s house last week and that...
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04.3 The Wolf Pack
Four in the afternoon, the Volkswagen parked in front of a liquor bar on Ayacucho, a few yards away from the side entry to Avenue Palace Hotel...
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Het Bonhe
Audio version at https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/het-bonhe-mp3 Het Bonhe As spring emerged from winter, Russian scholars, teachers taught the...
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Obscurity
I remember wishing the days away, Because we only ever met in the dark. Often the wind scathed my skin, And the rain relentless in its nature...
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Conscious
I wonder how it must feel To be a subtle accomplice To one’s own trajectory. A myriad of mannerisms And social graces, Manipulated solely By timely...
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Warm welcome
sparkles, soft smiles, and strident heralds along the lanes
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Where the Rivers Meet - 2
Days later, the lords were making their own departures. They had a treaty in their pockets – half of it each, cut jagged down the middle so that the...
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Where the Rivers Meet - 1
They negotiate treaties here. They sat it is because the magic of the interweaving rivers sees all, it knows when the truth is missing, the bubbling...
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