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s13ep study
The suburb was a dead giveaway— too many people, too few people, elm trees, a jack-o-lantern on a porch with its mouth caved in. A street that exists...
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When your world wobbles ..
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People of the desert
The Bushman or San are peoples of southern Africa who traditionally lived a hunter-gatherer lifestyle and speak languages with many click consonants...
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Where the Bushmen Came from
Days bygone long, long long ago there was a great grand-mother ma-gogo who's name was Um-Borose. She was our mother and she came from the Sun and...
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Last Night's Weather Haiku
Dark and stormy night Cliche filled weather warnings- It's the mad march wind!
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III. The Body Box - Part Three
The roads got smaller. County to rural. Rural to gravel. The gravel to a dirt track with grass growing in the center strip. The truck barely fit —...
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Idiolectic Idols
Idiolectic idols running wild on city streets Cause friction with diction you wouldn't like to greet. Shouting and swearing, haranguing with F-words...
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Listen to the flowers!
Their language is colour, and shade, scent, and delicacy, texture, complexity – what do they say? with eyes to see, and mind to think, you’ll hear...
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Bron-21
Continued from Chapter 20: Bron-20 | ABCtales Chris and Geoff were well into their second pints in the front bar of Ye Olde Mitre; it was nearly one...
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If only.
I bared myself to the doctor today: body, mind and soul. He’s new to the job, very young and most thorough, but he’s earned my confidence and trust...
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III. The Body Box - Part Two
He asked questions. I let him. "How long?" he said. About an hour after I got in. "I don't know." "A week? A month?" "Longer than a month." "How much...
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Spring Haiku Set
Radiant sun beams illuminate a cheerful blue sky and green park Near, in a tea house, poets recite Shakespeare and Rumi, Keats and Frost As if in...
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Electric Grace
Danny & Julie's Story: Part 10
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My Soldier Father's Body Brush
Mind’s secret tool. Sole that has ceased to work for decades now, but in the past received impressions of dark war paths, overcast skies of Russian...
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Teeth Tales: Brian's Mayans
A sorry tale about Brian and his obsession with Mayan tooth decoration.
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The Last Goodbye
The Last Goodbye by Paul McCann If no one should care if I live or die , all I ask is at my final goodbye , that you would be there , because I love...
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Watching You, Chapters Thirty-Seven and Thirty-Eight
Chapter Thirty-Seven ‘So you’re telling me you’ve no idea.’ Preston stared at Jacobs, then raised his eyes to the ceiling. Absolutely not.’ Jacobs...
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Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (13)
Part 12 at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/prophesy-immortal-witch-12 After sunset, temperatures in a desert plummet heralding a very...
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III. The Body Box - Part One
The truck was a Peterbilt and the cab smelled like coffee and diesel and one of those pine tree air fresheners that nobody believes in but everybody...
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Purple Mountain - Part 4
‘I made a stew for our lunch but I’m afraid we’re going to have to take it to grandma and grandpa’s now.’ ‘Oh really?’ Arty glanced over at Dill. ‘...
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