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Fingernails
Sun bathes, spraying lotion in great swathes across pallid skin. Water takes the shore back in. Endless motion, grains beneath fingernails your teeth...
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Wonder II
I wonder what you wonder. My hand against your shoulder blade, sweat binds our skin. Fingers connect but I cannot know what is there. I guess, I...
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Neverland
What fiends are we That creep in file? What monstrous rage Transudes our bile? Clowns and Fools Our savouries Asthenic minds Confectionary We foment...
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Amanderella and the Casket Mystery Chapter 6.
Chapter Six. Constable Mogg. “What,” she said, her voice like a cool breeze in the sweltering room, “did you do next?” Tom cleared his throat. “We...
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Spellbound Chapter 11.
Chapter Eleven. The Fire Demon. “While we wait for the Fire Demon,” said Calizone, “I’d better warn you, don’t get too close. His heat would fry you...
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5.2 Volatile Reputation
A red and black GSX250 Suzuki motorbike on its stand outside the gate of Boduberu would mean that a top-ranking military officer had gone in there...
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999
You saw And rang 999 With a dialling code In drunken disarray Not knowing It would later Be broken down Reduced Into a bite-sized story Adapted...
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you cry, you die. chapter 4
The humidity in the night market hung like a wet wool blanket. Neon signs bled neon pinks and sickly greens into the slick, rain-washed ground of...
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the Monster of Poverty
El Monstruo de la pobreza consists of rice and bean dinners, of hard up saints and hard-up sinners, of cracked concrete and gasoline rainbows, of...
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Chevrons
The work order said chevrons, eight of them, on the bend below the Ferrell place. Yellow, reflective, galvanized post. Dale had the spec on a...
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Chapter 16 - Miséricorde
Morgan came rushing as soon as she heard the thrashing. Peeking from under her hat, she noticed Lumen, shaking violently on the ground. Without a...
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- 56 reads
Gottle O' Geer
" All writing is Ventriloquism" David Shields Is it though? I'm sure the thinking behind this is the same as the CW dictum (maybe that should be...
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The Ballad of Reggie's Bonce
I've recently reread a book of Spike Milligan's poetry that I bought in the sixties, so I couldn't resist having a go..
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Amanderella and the Casket Mystery Chapter 5.
Chapter Five. Terkins Marmalade Facility. Mrs Gaffletter, who had been silent long enough to chill the air, now spoke with the calm severity of a...
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Spellbound Chapter 10.
Chapter Ten. Bone Setting. Sophie continued to be careful not to let her aunt see her using magic for chores. From the knowing grins she got from...
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The Call of the Night
The Call of the Night Dusk brings the darkness, covetous with its shroud, where once there was light, now stillness in shadows. In the distance – a...
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The Bungalow-11
Continued from Chapter 10: The Bungalow-9 & 10 | ABCtales “I’m not being racist. I’m merely pointing out some of the more glaring deficiencies in...
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Easter 2026 (Part 4: The Fall Of the Roman Empire (sorry American/Western Empire!) by Alfred N.Muggins
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19/5/26 The Fall of Afghanistan was a shock to Alfred, as it must have been to millions of western citizens. The fallibility of western power and...
My Mother
My mother went a long time ago I want to remember her eyes before they go the sound of her voice echos in the air and her ghostey shadow is...
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A Fork in the Road
A Yogi-ism.
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