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Grafting Haddock in the George
Haddock, haddock, haddock, all I ever see is haddock. My life revolves around haddock. I'm haddock-grafter at the George, which is an intensive role...
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I've Lost My Mummy 1
I had just moved into some new flats on a council estate. I was concerned about one of my neighbours. She was a woman in her 20s who was called...
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Fallen Leaf
A poem for a story I'm writing
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Measuring Temperature
What is the definition of Temperature? How is it measured? What is the temperature of a vacuum? Does it make sense? - At other extremes plasma, such...
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'Morning babe'
Monday 8.10am ‘Morning babe, how was your shift?’ ‘I love it that you call me babe, even though I’m 54.’ She smiles. ‘You’ll always be my babe, even...
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Florida (1987)
Audio version at https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/florida-1987-mp3?si=2c3f333ebb2a4a0... Florida (1987) Rays of sunlight glint through blinds,...
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Good Bye My Friend
As the alarm clock buzzed on Saturday morning, I hit with such gusto that it fell to the floor with a thud. I was kicking myself that I hadn’t turned...
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"Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the Earth" Albert Schweitzer
we breathed each other's breath. It was enough once you sheltered within me. We were one before fences. I grew to know burning, soon you chose to...
Visions of Hope
“Very risky business.” It came closer. “Saving one universe by sacrificing another. Not always achievable but you did it.” Almost no-one present had...
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Crumbling to Dust
Their arm fell. One lucky blow finally did it. Crait’s Lore brought their staff down and instead of stopping it, the metal plating that held Lore’s...
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Joie de vivre, lakeside, Coniston
Quietly skimming stones, today I'm in the best of moods, I will maintain it for as long as I like. The live long day will stretch for as long as I...
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Men of coal
Miners live and die above a seam of coal Where houses disgorge dark acrid smoke Into the very veins of their humanity Dry and bent from endless years...
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Another Man's Skin
The long street wound like a tired snake - an anaconda by choice rusting cars wasted by the curbside his new shirt out of touch for the occasion well...
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Oblong of Dreams
"Where do you get your ideas from?" people often ask me. I've written 500 stories to date in spite of (and I quote my English teacher here) 'no...
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Sustenance
here is some flash fiction. picture from pixabay As light issued under her cell door she lay in wait of the hatch in the bottom of her door to open...
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The Tale of the Six Swans
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Ode on a whippet with a twig in its jaw
( late-stage capitalism) Gone to the dogs? Going to the races? Betting on Sorrow? Not a chance guv'nor, my master is kind of lazy, he follows where I...
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February Shropshire Woods
In the copse’s sere tangled undergrowth, mulch and crumbling ginger bracken below bare brown branches splashes of bright white snowdrops – burst –...
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The Path I walked
The Path I Walked As I slowly sank into my late sixties, I realised how much I look back and reflect on the choices I have made as well as the times...
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The Olive Branch
Dave sat inconspicuously in his black 2004 Peugeot 307 overlooking the harbour. The tide was in but the current was changing and he watched as the...
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