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The Curse of Eternal life
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Day Dreaming at Night
Just a few desultory observations from recent days. Storm Cuddly caused widespread damage and injury, but one plucky reporter from Bonkers TV stood...
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Rest In Peace, Hazel - Part V
One year ago tonight, I had to watch as your life came to an end. It was sad to witness your demise and I felt so much pain within. You died in 2023...
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Party Election Leaflets : Delivering Economic Stability? By Alfred N.Muggins
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June 2024 Delivering Economic Stability? That wasn’t a phrase he would use to describe any of the recent years. Old wannabe Queen Margaret Thatcher...
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Awake
Almost the worst thing A face that no longer speaks Warfarin and medical wattle One that makes you weep Sloshing around is somebody No need for an...
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The Wizard Detective 2
I tried all afternoon to disconnect myself from the table, but I couldn’t stop it following me around. It went everywhere I went, even when I passed...
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Safe from the cold
I'm sat here on a rainy Sunday afternoon wondering what to do and where this love I had our love has now unravel with time what happen I don't know...
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The Wizard Detective 1
I was assigned Pegarin as my mentor. A long, stra g gly, bearded wizard, who favoured sandals , brightly coloured cardigans and beanie hats over more...
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Parcel for you - Part 42
Vanessa followed her husband into the kitchen and pushed the door closed but not clicked. ‘Hey, stop being so bloody helpful,’ she whispered. Spencer...
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Guests in the House
Annual Posting Guests in the House The 747 circled lazily through the patterned array of clouds that framed the blue of the Atlantic Ocean and the...
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Sandhill Only in Name
The sand hill crane is an immaculate beast I have not once seen on sand or hill, Rather knee-deep in retention water Steaming its belly feathers in...
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Still Life II
Yesterday never really got light. A bleak midwinter day if ever there was one. Sky, a twilit grey-green all day, somewhere between aventurine and...
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The Meeting of the Waters
A few words about my love affair with one of Europe's great rivers and her little sister.
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Why Christmas? (1)
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Nothing, nothing to be seen. Only One, true God, who’d been always, ever and content, but he chose to make, invent … damaged, sad … trust he would appear …
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Little Golden Fishes
little golden fishes that the guiris drop in la fuente on the way to the clubs and bars from the fairground float side up in the fountain
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The Vagabond Heirs of Francisco Franco
They sit in every cafe-bar named after the street on whose corner it squats. Smoking, small-eyed, wall-eyed moustachioed muchachos remembering kisses...
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Roommate
I tightened my grip on the box of books, the corners biting into my palms, as I navigated the narrow staircase to my new apartment. The air was thick...
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On December Nights in 1973
On December Nights in 1973 Our mum, she loved Marks & Spencer. She'd always say, "Ohh.You can't beat them for quality. For value!" Every...
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The Last Night Good Night Chapter 11
The Last Night Chapter 11 Good Night 35 “I see Mama.” Wyatt murmured when he slid from the bed and joined Ariel and Forrest. They were standing with...
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The Rain
The Rain His first memory is when he hid under his Mum’s bed to scare her new boyfriend. The boyfriend had needles. At the time he didn’t know what...
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