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Dust and Echoes/In the Immediate Distance - Chapter 2 (pt. 2)

Luckily for Brandon Cailan, large and shady corporations attracted a cloud of young Bounty Hunters with very fast ships. Of course, there were always...

Dust and Echoes/In the Immediate Distance - Chapter 2 (pt. 1)

Brandon Cailan walked along the dim light of the pier, still foggy from the previous night and just bright enough for the automatic lights to start...

The Price of Holding On

A short poem about learning the hard way of having to let go of our first love.

To Live and Die - Chapter 1 / Persona non Grata (2 of 2)

He opened his eyes and there was a low moan from the struggling engine under the colossal weight of two and a half tons. The driver slowed down to a...

To Live and Die - Chapter 1 / Persona non Grata (1 of 2)

It happened when the farmers had already set out across the barren landscapes with their tools in hand, unsuspecting. The sun was fast rising in the...

Indira and the Dhole

Once, in India, there was a little girl named Indira who always wore a sari of green and, one afternoon, she was sent through the forest with cooked...

The Spectacled Bear: The Panda of Peru

Who is the Andes Panda bear? The Panda of Peru? That particular bear is the Spectacled bear; a spectacular bear, its true. But why does he wear...

The Silly Season

I spent my entire adult life working in the political arena. I have long ago become inured to the nutty and irrelevant comments, charges and counter...

My name is Nature

My name is Nature; thats who I am; the running river; the rutting ram; the birds that flutter; the fish that swim. My name is Nature, I am him. My...
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THE BOY IN THE BACK OF MY CAR

Another day, another dollar! I sighed, switched on the engine, wondering what this not-so-bright new day would bring. More of the same, no doubt. I...

Dust and Echoes/In the Immediate Distance - Chapter 1

A woman pushed her way out of the dark confines of a stark, industrial-type building and strolled into the bright city square, ringed with benches...

The Red Leaf

There is one red leaf on the tree hanging like an open mouth whilst a pea-green one is on the verge of growing up into yellow Tinkling’s of rain...
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Story of the week

The Rock is broken

Mohammed watched the girl snap the stick of rock in half, then present him with the two broken pieces. “This rock is broken,” the girl said. “Yes,”...

Dogs

“Splotch is only supposed to have wet food, but I’ve tried what his owners gave me and he wouldn’t touch the stuff. I experimented with a couple of...

Knowing that God is Real

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] God is real - how can we know? Skies and flowers his prowess show; Christ, the Son, came here, revealing,...

The Tent

I am the master, the chief, el supremo, numero uno, king of my domain, emperor of my tent. I can do anything I like in my tent. For ten hours a day I...
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Vinegar Showers

(CC 40)

Gone in a flash

Getting lost in Twain's amusing Roughing it Carriage rattling in the praries enduring a female chatterbox, later come across a jackrabbit, huge ears...

Hello America On September 11

Hello America On September 11 By Paul McCann . America trusts in God and virtue has grown from bitterness . Forgiving is a Charity and a living sign...

The Window

Once, there was a man named Ted. Ted looked out his window as he had many times before. He had seen many things out that window; hope and love -...

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