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The Apple
Hanging on the oldest tree, The wind-tossed apple, Nice with Brie. So big and green, the juicy treat, I saw myself in its cheek. On biting through...
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"Answer Me"
Frankie Laine: 13 th November to 10 th December 1953
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Beltane
A Celtic pagan May Day ceremony drove cattle between fires and over hot embers to purify and ensure prosperity and fertility.
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Amanderella Gottsnobbler and the Bangolin Tree Chapter 2
Chapter 2. A Home Visit. The pad was her expedition stationery, the waterproof kind that had once survived a week in the Amazon wedged under a...
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Ascending Mount Olympus
Ascending Mount Olympus is the lifelong ambition and pursuit of excellence; scaling the marble heights beside Michael Jackson far above his highest...
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Tell The Tales of The Black Sheep
I’ll tell you a tale, but do not be appalled; it is not a mystery, so there is nothing to solve. I do not strive to adorn my finger with a glittering...
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"Answer Me"
David Whitfield: 6 th to 12 th November 1953
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Apeirogon
Apeirogon A therapist once told me that it’s impossible to forgive without understanding reason. For months now, I’ve believed. I’m not a Christian,...
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An appointment
No doctor I’ll not say where it hurts My pursed lips are shut like the lips of a walnut- Oh but my heart is a sponge It’s so full of holes, It...
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Amanderella Gottsnobbler and the Bangolin Tree Chapter 1
Chapter 1. The Lady Comes Home. The SS Pedal Power came chuffing into the docks with all the dignity a steam‑driven vessel could muster. A harbour...
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Hard Time Killing Floor - Part One: The Auction
Skip James was sixty-seven when he died. The cause was cancer, but the body had been failing for years before that — diabetes, blood pressure, the...
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A word, and the stars are made!
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] He made the plants to grow, God made the moon and sun, He made the stars, also – just spoke and that was...
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J C. Jones VII - the Legend Returns
“Good morning. Welcome back to my podcast. Has it really been ten months? Seems like only yesterday that I was in the Awful Office having fire spit...
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"Hey Joe!"
Frankie Laine: 23 rd October to 5 th November 1953
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Bron-36
Continued from Chapter 35: Bron-35 | ABCtales Mary Hinds grunted as she replaced the receiver on the care home phone. It had taken a good half hour...
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The Amazing Adventure of Amanderella Gottsnobbler Chapter 15
Chapter 15 : Home. The jungle rustled, the river shimmered. Amanderella said nothing, only tightened her knapsack straps. She had her own secrets now...
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Ruins
Ozymandias and brick walls covered in green ivy, restaurant robots carrying cups of cappuccino coffee; the painter outside captures the face of...
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What Do We Bury- Us or The Hatchett
Yes, he broke my heart. And I did the same. The words lived like a furnace within me as I looked down at him where his body was supposed to be, where...
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"Look At That Girl"
Guy Mitchell: 11 th September to 22 nd October 1953
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Picnic
Between stone lips I’ll slip this knife To shuck the oyster. I’ll serve it on ice, With rice wine and vinegar, For the frown in your eyes. As it...
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