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The Way We Were: House of Fun, May 1982
Goran’s house was perfectly located, it was on the edge of the Old Court estate where half of us lived, and just a playing field away from the...
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Favourite Quotations of Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) was a German-born physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for...
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The Way We Were: Abba-esque EP, June 1992
I like blondes. Agnetha From Abba, for example, or Yvonne, from my philosophy tutorial group. I’d liked her all year, but it’s difficult to chat...
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Amanderella Gottsnobbler and the Bangolin Tree Chapter 7
Chapter 7. A bunch of lilies. Algersome Eartrembler arrived at Mrs Gaffletter’s with a bouquet of damp lilies and a voice that rumbled like a heavy...
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Bron-38
Continued from Chapter 37: Bron-37 | ABCtales ‘This is the 08.03 from London Euston to Holyhead. Calling at Rugby, Tamworth, Stafford, Crewe, Chester...
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Hard Time Killing Floor - Part Two: The Bentonia Tuning
The Bentonia school was the work of a man named Henry Stuckey, who learned a guitar tuning from Black soldiers in France in 1918 — Bahamian troops,...
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"Answer Me"
David Whitfield: 11th December 1953 to 7th January 1954
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Ghosted: A Meteorology
Clouds live on average for about ten minutes. His cooking pot is pigeon grey and sturdy with non-scald handles. It still has a glass jar of rusty...
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Lung Biopsy Result
Dear diary...it's Friday 8 th May 2026. I woke this morning in a better mood than yesterday. Last night I was able to sleep through the night, unlike...
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Amanderella Gottsnobbler and the Bangolin Tree Chapter 6
Chapter 6. A Letter arrives. After Mrs Thimblewick left, Amanderella’s mother sat for a long moment in the garden chair, the newspaper clipping...
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The Way We Heard: Way Down
1977 The screened porch was hotter than the kitchen but at least it was hers. Wanda sat on the metal rocker that didn't rock anymore and worked...
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Singing The Blues: January 1957
The frost had settled thick on the rooftops along the terraced row, turning the slates the colour of pewter. It was still dark at half-past seven, on...
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The Nameless Ones
Floating from place to place, free as the wind itself; known unknown travelling networks invisible, roots placed unseen yet life thrives. Every step...
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Black Mushroom Soup
We were walking down the street, on our way home from Shadow Pines Bistro. It was Saturday and our monthly meet up. Myself and three mates, all...
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I heard the cuckoo sing today …
I heard the cuckoo sing today … this welcome gentle sound of spring …
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Sunday Morning
She had some choices to make, and not just what’s for dinner-cheesy pasta as always when there were far more pressing matters at hand. What is she...
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Amanderella Gottsnobbler and the Bangolin Tree Chapter 5
Chapter 5. The Lecture. Amanderella looked at her lecture notes and slides. “I need a map of the Amazon. My own maps, though accurate, are muddy,...
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Teeth of Many Colours
All the things I saw, did, said, tasted, felt or read about during the latter fifteen days of April.
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The Way We Heard: Singing the Blues
This short story was inspired by Singin the Blues (Tommy Steele) It was written a long time after that , but for some reason the song was played on...
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Bron-37
Continued from Chapter 36: Bron-36 | ABCtales “Bit of a bummer, the landlord finding out about Petouche, like that,” said Grace. “I mean, we always...
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