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Art Inspired
This artist with nimble touch paints a pigment language, brush strokes in vivid richness blended...embellished essence, gentle curves passing,...
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breathless at the threshold
no storm tonight to clear the smothering pall blankets weigh heavy on failing lungs I lay like a vitruvian gulping at air my soul is drowning finding...
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In a World Gone Mad: Sunday 5th July 2020
Sunday 5 July 2020 We had a karaoke night last night, Andy didn’t join us because he was hung over from the night before when he went to his friend’s...
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Ironing, a woman's half hour
I wrote this and realised that i had a washing machine poem..think i might have read similar before...
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In a World Gone Mad: Saturday 4th July 2020
Saturday 4 July 2020 I’ve done it, I’ve done it, I’ve bloodywell only gone and done it. After umph years, umph days and umph hours, I’ve finished...
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The Human Touch: Chapter One
The Human Touch Katherine Black Chapter One ‘For Christ sake, the dog’s giving birth on my bed. Don’t just stand there, bloody do something.’ Carla...
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Something better …
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Blighted partying and violence, frustration breeding selfishness, think anarchy brings happiness, but joy...
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The Maulter: Part 4-Riddlebrook
To be fair, it wasn’t Riddlebrook’s fault it did little to warrant its place on the map. The town was pretty well situated in the middle of nowhere,...
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new dog for old
After his mum’s death Bob decided to get a dog. He’d been laid off after working for the same company for almost thirty years, his wife had left him...
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"Past and Present" Chapter 1
The newsroom was hectic. It was nearing the deadline for the final print and the last of the articles were due in. Stephanie Mitchell was spell...
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A Working Life
A Working Life by Paul McCann We work so hard all of our life to pay the bills and to provide . Somehow through the thick and thin , we always find a...
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Attack and destroy!
In the mini bus our motto was “Val aan en vernietig!” Attack and destroy! For our away matches the team spirit was more like a rock band than a chess...
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Learning Counting 3, 4, 5 …
1, 2, 3 Breakfast, lunch and tea Mummy, Daddy, me: 1, 2, 3 … Now we’ve got 1 more 3 and 1 makes 4 …
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Break The Child: Epilogue: Through a Father's Eyes
Epilogue: Through a Father’s Eyes I’ve cried a million tears and cried until I thought it would dissolve me. This time I’m crying for a new reason—I...
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Three Ships
Flash fiction - 400 words. (A repost)
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Break the Child: Prologue: In Dad's Own Words
Break the Child Katherine Black Beware of the monsters that dwell in the mind. - Katie Bell Prologue I am a humbled man. My name is Stephen Barnet...
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Break the Child: Chapter Thirty-Eight: The End
Chapter Thirty-Nine I know, I haven’t written for ages. I bet you thought I was dead. You try writing with a nine-week-old baby to look after. I...
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No Returns
I can see you in the moonlight your face and I miss you. The night arrives on a caravan of diamonds- they sparkle bright orbs way out there up-up and...
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