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17.1 Domino Effect
Torrential rain wreaked the city in the beginning of November 1962, riverbanks crumpled and suddenly, River Vardar flooded the city and its entire...
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Treachery at Wuhan. Ch. # 10 Freeing the Lads
Chapter # 10 - Liberating the Lads Two nights later, another full Special Ops “A Team” would follow Captain Gengler, onto the beach at Wuhan. The...
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Such is Life and Life is Such
When once I sought the Holy Grail, I'm now more likely to piss in a pail. Moved before to rapture by the endless dale, I put up two fingers to the...
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Above Pencombe, a cold day

23/3/24 Ramble around Hegdon Hill in the cold, views over gentle country east to the Malverns, west to the far Black Mountains, sunlight rays...
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16.2 Active Measures
According to the report, Bradley withdrew from forwarding sensitive information after the Cuban Missile Crisis. In October 1962, an American U-2...
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The Doves Cou
The Doves Cou By Paul McCann See the dove high up above asleep in the old oak tree . Secure she'll be until the dawn sleeping quite contently . Sleep...
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Radio Caroline
Radio Caroline By Paul McCann Radio Caroline you were just so fine, a pirate radio station back in time . like sunshine on the airwaves from up above...
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Capture Happiness
Capture Happiness Held in the place where it always abides. Here in the presence, often absent. There's a yearning to be apprehended. And to bring...
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16.1 Active Measures
A week later, Colonel Ram received a fairly large package from Moscow. As a very methodical person, he cut open the package with extreme care and...
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Swan Song

Swan Song The mirror was cracked and smeary. Some of the lights around its edge flickered as though trying to send some sort of Morse Code message...
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Yarns and Yawns
A good start with Bonkers TV today. A certifiable bloke popped up asking the questions. Every point made was accompanied with windmill gestures (not...
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They have decided they might get a dog
It had been their ‘on the way home from work’ pub conversation. Let’s both make a list of pros and cons. Long walks in parks hand in hand, saying ‘...
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Marc with a c
He reads out the long number of his card, the sort code, the expiry date, ‘422, Natwest, Marc with a c, Martin with a y, Jonsson with no h and two ns...
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(two tall mountains)
A series of postcards of mountain ranges, the Appalachians and the Southern Alps, all of them stamped and posted to an address in Glasgow’s Southside...
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Five days before he was crucified

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] The King, a kind and gentle King, rides in upon an ass – a borrowed ass – he nothing owned: The prophecy had...
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15.2 The Silver Fox
After two hours, he was steered to the minister’s private office. The walls of the entrance hall and the rest of the interior walls were painted in...
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When Did Our World Become SO Complicated?

Over the years, we have bought cheap new cookers always gas. Usually when we have bought them, they have a dent in them or a scratch on it somewhere...
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Ralph Monkton Lives!

Okay, a bit of cheek, as in not being quite a nonce word, but I may be forgiven for inventing a nonce character, who has at times since come in handy. This is a (mostly) a true story, the facts have only been changed to enhance poetic licence.
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Boy meets girl
Boy meets girl. First week at uni. Boy and girl indifferent to each other. Boy introduces girl to another boy. Boy meets another girl. Girl drinks...
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Wordrush, thoughtcess

Shoot from the hip, quick have your say so many openings to comment today, don’t pause for thought, or listen – you ought to think of the reasons...
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