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Hope Street
Umm... it's about... being disappointed - by the high heid yins, I suppose.
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Selworthy
Weather sleeps here, Alighting softly on ancient gates; Cosseting leather; percolating Bone and shadow; distinguishing Medieval brick. Beyond the...
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Morning Music
A poem that sets morning to music...
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Amanderella and the Gooseberry Mystery.
Chapter One. The Woman in the Third Chair. Amanderella Gottsnobbler sat before her mirror, studying her reflection with the calmness of someone who...
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The Unknown Enemy.Chapter 2.
Chapter 2. Fear wakes a village. Nemon scrambled down the stairs so fast his boot slipped on the smooth stone. He slammed against the wall, his...
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MUSSELS
MUSSELS Miran worked the pocket knife like a lever, sliding it up and under the mussels until they came free of their moorings. She held each clump...
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Fewer Each Time (3)
The cold went through his coat at once. He stood on the walk with his back to the door and his hands in his pockets and looked at the square. It was...
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The Bungalow-23
Continued from Chapter 22: The Bungalow-22 | ABCtales ‘Theatre, pure theatre.” The old man pronounced the word with an upper-class drawl – ‘the-ar-...
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Hoard (Episode 41 - The Further Chronicles of a Young Lady (and her Maid)
Dolly enjoys her time in the shop but there is dirty work afoot, in the garden!
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Frankenplot: Carny
Carny They call her carny. She disagrees. But deep down she knows it to be true. Deception runs in the family. An emerald-coloured heavy tent flap...
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Fewer Each Time (2)
When the woman turned the stroller and went off along the square, the children walking beside her, Odell went back to the office. He sat down in...
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Friends Reunited
The pub smelled of stale beer, cigarette smoke and Shake’n’Vac. The kind of pervasive smell that had clung to its fake timbers for more than three...
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The Ashton Road Gang Chapter 12 December. Part 2.
"Bless you, no," replied the man who had been examining Simon, very gently and carefully. "He looks to have broken his leg and his wrist. He will...
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Mysterious
Memories can sink, forgotten: suddenly can rise, unbidden, deep from somewhere in the mind. But when flesh weakens with age, clouding much we fail to find, surely they’re not lost – for …
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Winstanley’s Folly
A story of engineering folly...
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The Unknown Enemy.
Chapter 1. The Light that shouldn’t be. The sun was dipping behind the mountains, casting long shadows over the village, but for Nemon, the day was...
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The Ashton Road Gang Chapter 12 December. Part 1.
Chapter Twelve. A Bike for Christmas. "Billy, go back to sleep. It is only half past five. You are not going down stairs until we all get up and I am...
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Fewer Each Time (1)
Odell Tesh unlocked the front door of his father's shop at twenty minutes to nine on Halloween morning and stood in the doorway with the key still in...
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ode to a red rose
red rose, rosa roja, red garden rose, flamboyant rose; vivacious red rose; You are true inspiration's flower: the purest genius of botanical colors,...
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A Day in the Life - Part Four
I’m writing this from the front porch of my mom-in-law’s house. Molly James is eighty-five years old and fitter than I am at seventy-two. She’s a...
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