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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...

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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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...

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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"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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My Dead Grandmother

I knew that my late father had created an AI version of his mother
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The Amazing Adventure of Amanderella Gottsnobbler Chapter 14

Chapter 14: Cookery lessons and Lectures. Next morning Amanderella told the explorers that she had finally managed to find and sketch the fabled...

And in the flames

You carefully stack the kindling criss crossing twigs and packing tinder, and you light the fire and let go of thoughts that used to linger the team...
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Skipping the Surface of Time

Every day, a story written, memories added to life's tapestry; time marches ever onwards, it flows in one direction. To return, to travel back, a...

AR-15

I had a conversastion today, with a parent whose son who is sixteen,knows a fellow student who is becoming radicalised by the toxic male 'manosphere'; and I though I lived in a quiet peaceful village.

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