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The Mathematician
One could go to his office with a problem anytime. It was correspondence university so there weren't too many students to be a bother. You could ask...
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Never Say Die!
Josiah and Archibald discuss a burning desire
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A New Normal @ 100 years!
“I couldn’t cope if you weren’t coming in, so I know you love me”. … Comes Covid … Will she understand, she can’t hear … a letter ‘big print’ – she loves to read with her one partly working eye if it’s ‘big print’ … accepted as us still visiting, loving. … a new ‘episode’ received every two or three days …
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Anyway
Anyway, those "no dogs except guide dogs" signs in shops, how does the guide dog read that, are we going to have guide dogs sitting in an armchair...
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So Must Night Descend Into Day
Overhead hazy brightness partially fulfilled, sails on leisurely breezes, hardly prismatic...only faint rays in pearls, sunrise dew drops detaching...
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Bat Out Of Hell Part 4
Bat Out of Hell Chapter 4 By Shane Scott With a forty two mile raging trail of Hellfire behind him, now moving at the snail’s pace of two hundred...
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Out Of the Blue (Rimas Dissolutas)
A moment in time.
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I'm Not In The Real World
I'm Not In The Real World By Paul McCann. You’re not living in the real world , that’s what people say every time I’m writing , I always drift far...
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waltz with me dressed in christmas lights
waltz with me dressed in christmas lights a soft sentiment found on a screen the clever words of another immediately it formed as a wish prised out...
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cuddly Pudsey onesie
the care home claims to ‘add quality to dwindling days’ nurses’ smiles mask the reality, stinking, raw, suffering, mortality my turn to visit her I...
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"Something Called a Burner " Mr Martínez Three
Still some smoke coming from the puddle??? Maybe not... Image adapted from one at pixhere.com: no known copyright issues.
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The Spider
After what's his name
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Father God
You are beautiful. Your face a lovely sky and clouds that shape imagination – at times fells a soft rain that makes everything grow even feeds the...
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A Funny Thing
Remember: never dismember a member. (One from the archive).
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"A Man Needs Favours At Times Like These" [Mr Martínez Two]
We'll see how it goes... Image author's own
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the unspeakable grief of a mother cleansing her son’s spilt blood
[tanka format] hot soapy water long gone cold, a scrubbing brush and disinfectant. pavement grit grazing her knees mingles their life-bloods again...
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Snowstorm
Wonder came upon the land in undulating waves - as crystals formed from the sun and rain. Now riding the wind an avalanche sweeps across a valley...
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Masking the problem
I'm so embarrassed about my country and that now that I have to wear a mask in supermarkets, I have to hide my face in shame. Governments are not...
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