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Flattened

The world is round But co vid 19 Makes the flat earth real Not only real but tilted at a 45 degree angle With everyone just hanging on With a lost...
Cherry

tea with Anushka

I was summoned to tea with Anushka she is a notorious acquirer of culture, haunting antique bookshops ‘abstracting’ volumes of art, music, poetry,...

Sing a great song in my ear lobes

Black cats matter, and I thought mine was splattered. Outside I went, my emotions totally spent. Because she usually slept on my pillow, and the...

Manual diagnostic

Here I go, here lies the millionth attempt to write from a place of truth, no song or dance, no scattered attempts of diguise, just a raw recolection...

I'll Call You At Midnight

I’ll call you at midnight. When the guilt is like ten thousand faultless people lying on top of you. I call you at midnight. When you only remember...

E-mail To My Best Friend (About My Girlfriend In Austin)

If you ever breathe a word of this to anyone, even Sue, I will never forgive you. I will never trust you again. Anna is the love of my life. My...

In Search of Accord

Where can we go in the book of Acts to find Christians who are of one heart and soul, who are of one accord? One place is Acts chapter 4, when the...

Princil's Magic : Ch.13 : Reformed Wizard (Part 1)

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Aribor, the barbarian Dark Sorceror, settles in Bricas as a hero, after his efforts to save the citizens. He finds new avenues for his sorcery in healing and preserving beauty, in making people younger, if only temporarily. He continues to find alliance with the Shalirionite Goddess. Set in the fantasy land of Shalirion, which has been partly conquered by the barbarian nations.

Don't look back

Behind your head all the things that you missed congealed, washed away, also stuck mainly in the bulbousness of your neck like things blocked,...

The Marquis

Filtered and matured - bit of a list

Up-Helly-Aaagh!

Josiah and Archibald reflect on the law of unintended consequences.

Living in the time of Corona Virus

These are the opening paragraphs, in a 28,000 word piece, that I am continuing to write about the subject. Anyone volunteering to review and offer...

Nothing Worth Having is Easy

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Nothing Worth Having is Easy By Shane Scott Jessica and Seth lay side by side on the double bed. Sweat dripped from their pores, covering their naked...

Goredale Scar

Nice day out

The Long Finger That Points

The Long Finger That Points By Paul McCann There’s an ugly finger pointing but don’t take any notice of it , sooner or later the pointing finger will...

Safe Space

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] … space for all from fears to hide. Safe because … As you struggle in this place … ’till reach danger-free ‘home-base’.

Disenchantment 9

The breeze made me feel a little colder, so I put my hand closer to the fire to receive the warmth that we often associate with fire, but it wasn’t...
Cherry

Ben and Tillie

Ben and Tillie scraped by in the basement of tinned-up twenty-three I checked them out occasionally as they opened the door the stench of boiled...
Cherry

Disenchantment 8

I did lie to Hornblende. I tried to merely lie by omission, but he asked me too many questions. I was telling the truth when I said that I called...

Happy Birthday, Mom - Part VIII

When you died, I was devastated and didn't know what to do. If you hadn't died, today you would've turned seventy-two. The love that I felt for you...

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