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Rembrien Chapter 4.
Chapter 4. The Eagle. The next town on Sophrayni’s map was Burnton. The road narrowed between hedgerows thick with berries, the scent of damp earth...
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The Kingdom without a Dragon Chapter 2.
Chapter Two. The Dragon. The following week the Butler told the royal couple that a Dragon would be arriving for an interview at 11 o’ clock on...
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In the Garden

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Christ on his knees, raw human anguish, awareness, dread of what’s ahead; real prayer for help, then full...
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dream of company

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Summer Is A Beautiful Colour
I used to smile at yellow roses. Before you were with somebody and I was with someone else. All that pushing, you weren't ready for me. So I never...
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Frakenplot: Dark is the light.
The wind tried to bury him. Hunted and haunted him, but the desert silence was the food and drink he needed. If he hadn’t been so tired. Squinted and...
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The Amazing Instant Novelist

In 1994 I was on worker’s compenstion due to a back injury. Having all this spare time on my hands—after my wife had gone off to work and six year-...
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Write Club (1)
I first met Terrence Oblong in Salubrious Passage, a dark, narrow, dingy, twisty alley that led to the church, hence its name. In the middle of the...
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No Deed to Nothing
No Deed to Nothing or do I annihilate - asked at the lectern like a man choosing a tie. An / nihil / ate : to bring to nothing. Whose nothing? You...
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Home-made 3D cards for the elderly

… have regularly produced 3D card letters for her mother … a lovely idea for an older person who enjoys supplementing poor eyesight with feeling shapes and texture … "Feel the fluffy rabbit peeping through the crispy leaves:…
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Worst Case Scenario - Life Gets In Your Eyes (Part One)
The latest mouthful of warm saltwater tasted much the same as the previous twenty. I choked and spat it out, personally insulted, as though someone...
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The Kingdom without a Dragon Chapter 1
Chapter One. A Small Country. Somewhere along The Great South Road lay the Kingdom of Minisculia. If you had closed your eyes for a short nap whilst...
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Rembrien Chapter 3.
Chapter 3. The Empty Spaces. “You knew I needed to come here,” she murmured. Shade snorted softly. “I think we need a night’s rest and a long think...
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Renata ♥ Mark: Chapters 7, 8 and 9

Working on a literary novel vaguely inspired by Diane Schuler, who was a seemingly normal suburban Mom who drunk-drove with her kids the wrong way down the highway and killed them all; she had hidden longstanding alcoholism from her family for years. I was inspired by that kind of self delusion to write a similar long form story.
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The Bungalow-18

Continued from Chapter 17: The Bungalow-17 | ABCtales “Well, I did what you wanted me to do, Budgie. Went to the AA meeting.” “And you got yourself...
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I can swim underwater!

At eight, she learned she only belonged underwater. Smashed egg. Her father’s hands were always on her. Shove. Yank. Twist. “Lift your bum.” His...
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Saudade*

Among many potential meanings -- "A profound, bittersweet emotional state of nostalgic, melancholic longing. It combines sadness for the absence of a person, object or time with the joy of having experienced it." -- Image from wikimedia commons.
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Money for the Circus 16

A bit more. Slow going, isn't it? Ah well.
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Messages

Once for her it was all books and art. Long talks about the rights of women and workers. The poems of Rilke. To be clear she wasn’t oblivious to the...
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Rembrien Chapter 2.
Chapter 2. The House on the Hill. Sophrayni sat with her hands in her lap, watching the steam curl from the kettle. The unicorn horn lay on the desk...
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