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Shadow's Echo.

By markashley on Mon, 01 Dec 2025

Shadows lost in faint fades and a distant dull thump of something that was never there, right in front in the moment of now. A sea of shining black...

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Mission Creep

By Makis on Mon, 01 Dec 2025

Oh, please, not yet. It’s November, for goodness sake. I've got dahlias in flower, the squirrels are burying conkers on my lawn, and the thin duvet’s...

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November Blues

By forest_for_ever on Mon, 01 Dec 2025

November Blues It was ‘Black Friday’ last week and although a sales event it clashed with Christmas, which starts commercially as early as the summer...

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Papa’s Got a Brand New Chainsaw

By Turlough on Mon, 01 Dec 2025

The usual rigmarole. Half a month (this bit being the first half of November) described using precisely one hundred words per day.

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Boys' Own Up

By Ewan on Mon, 01 Dec 2025

Hmm... I'm sure you'll work it out

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FIRE!!

By drkevin on Mon, 01 Dec 2025

Being an old git, not particularly interested in travel, I normally circulate around cafes and hotels to satiate what's left of my social instincts...

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Cubed

By Lore on Mon, 01 Dec 2025

White. A hologram appeared. “If you are watching this, it means one of three things: I have forgotten something and need a reminder, I am editing...

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Shopping to Excess - (2025 Remix)

By mark p on Sun, 30 Nov 2025

Sunday , still November Urban urchins, Doric divas, Tik-Tok toerags, Facebook fops from tenement flats and tower blocks all descend, upon the city to...

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Anticipation

By luigi_pagano on Sun, 30 Nov 2025

Children's

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a song of africa

By Nolan on Sun, 30 Nov 2025

bless us as sisters and brothers grant us oh lord, and bountiful love of each to the others let us love the land of our fathers hear our prayer to...

Alexander (16)

By Kilb50 on Sun, 30 Nov 2025

Final chapter. Alexander and Alicia try to escape the manor house. Only one will survive.

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I prophesy Amoebas

By seannelson on Sun, 30 Nov 2025

I prophesy Amoebas: mutating, sluggish Zombieish in the living dead university laboratory by the slide projector, the Homo Erectus skull, and a...

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“The people who walked in darkness …

By Rhiannonw on Sun, 30 Nov 2025

… have seen a great light.” Isaiah 9:2 [Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] When darkness grips and happiness slips a Word of light guides in the...

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In the Forest of Ardenne

By seannelson on Sun, 30 Nov 2025

In the Forest of Ardenne we are a multitude who hide from different kings and things for differing reasons. Some have found God and take holy penance...

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