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Penny's Pass The Story - Part 10.
10. Sheriff Milton eyed Polanski with suspicion. He’d never trusted his junior deputy, who was far too pretty for his liking. He adjusted his hat for...
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Bows
Bows after Stevie Smith You see. I have a pair of old scuffed shoes. Together we walk around, here and there. The shops, the gallery, my friendly...
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"Where Is My Husband!"
Raye: 8th to 14th January 2026 Part 1 of 9
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Food for Thought
The future of dining out for us all, perhaps!
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Chapter 21 - Paul Oakenfold at The Escape - Part 3
My eyes search the room to survey the scene, and I feel a gentle smile deep inside. Suddenly, I feel calm and at one with the world. My eyes rest on...
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Jesus, alive again meets …
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] … the sad, the puzzled, the sceptic … 1. Grieving Mary’s loss was such – loved the One who’d helped her much. First to meet the Saviour risen,
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Vacuuming
Vacuuming With every pull toward your body you expect obedience. Expect each tiny micron of dirt to be sucked up and away – captured. Tied neatly in...
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Flight of the Flightless
It came from the sky; silence shattered as it fell. A domino unknowingly set by persons no longer present. Tense silence followed in its wake. Waves...
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Ridgeline - Part Five: Flinch and Hold
She didn't move. The dog didn't move. Ten feet of gravel between them and the dusk thickening into something heavier and the dog sat on its haunches...
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Between the Gold and Blue
From the clifftop they soar The rocks and ocean below At least Icarus tried Never too high nor too low Expectations a cooling updraft Melted wings...
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Blues Moon Haiku Set
Thinning blonde hair streaked with grayish silver here and there divine, dabbled paint Spilled Prozac pills; thin cup-boards, and worried brows...
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A Strange Feeling
Walking back to the car, I took a breather on the High Street. My bags were large and heavy, and my lungs were small and light. Downhill was fine,...
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Penny Pass the Story - Part 10
Polanski, the too handsome cop, with a face you wouldn’t forget, stepped into the Sheriff’s office. “You look baffled, Chief. What’s up?
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Delighted to get out!
6 April Such a bright, warm day, a walk along a little river in Bucknell village. Sunlight glinting on the water, and the tumbling, bubbling sound of...
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Bron-30
“That all you have, Bron?” Grace pointed to the plastic holdall and six overstuffed carrier bags on the landing of Flat 3 on Great Cumberland Place...
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After You'd Gone
After you'd gone, sometimes we would wake and find you still there in the favourite chair, in the dust-ridden front room alive with the sunlight...
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Ridgeline - Part Four: Wrong Direction
She picked left. No reason. The trail forked where she stood — not a real fork, just the loop continuing in both directions — and she picked left...
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Penny’s Pass the Story Part 10
Part 9 at: https://www.abctales.com/story/penny4athought/pass-story-chapter-9 Penny’s 'Pass the Parcel’ Part 10 Milton wanted to flick another rolled...
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Joe - a dinosaur theme park story with hotdogs.
Joe This morning Hodges tells me I’m on triceratops. I don’t do triceratops I say and he says you don’t do triceratops there’s a million other smart-...
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