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The Want - The Bartender

Hollywood. V-J Day - 1945. A nutjob derails a streetcar. A detective investigates. Stumbling across a shuttered speakeasy, Det. Jake Lacey, with a few questions of his own, encounters a familiar-looking bartender. Then the questioning becomes more than procedure. It becomes personal.

Proverbs Of Africa

Proverbs are the daughters of experience ~ To forget a wrong is the best revenge To lose one's way is a way of finding it The road of excess leads to...

Proposal poem

I was hiding quietly in my single life In a perpetual state of too-many-pints All jaded sarcasm and predictable cynicism None of it seemed right 60...

hiraeth

hiraeth often, from nowhere, an unsettling nostalgia takes me unawares for somewhere I’ve never been and ‘the one’ I may meet there. set off by a...

To Catch a Thief - Part Two - A Shady Character (2 of 2)

There's a new thief stalking the streets of Ankh-Morpork, and Commander Samuel Vimes of the City Watch will find that persuing this law-breaker will take him places he never expected. This is a piece of Discworld fanfiction. All characters, locations and concepts are the intellectual copyrighted material of Terry Pratchett and his associated publishers.

Lost at sea

Waves crashing over my head. Saltwater filling my lungs, burning my nostrils. I yell and I cry, all the while trying to float. Attempting not to...

bags of bones

bags of bones in parchment skin he is bald, she wears a wig to cover chemo ravaging the wheelchair rattles market cobbles earth spills from hardy...

The Waltz of the Faceless

I never questioned my presence at this manor at the top of an icy peak landscape that I couldn't place. I found myself sitting in a row of chairs...
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Paraffin heater

Pre-central heating

To Catch a Thief - Part Two - A Shady Character (1 of 2)

There's a new thief stalking the streets of Ankh-Morpork, and Commander Samuel Vimes of the City Watch will find that persuing this law-breaker will take him places he never expected. This is a piece of Discworld fanfiction. All characters, locations and concepts are the intellectual copyrighted material of Terry Pratchett and his associated publishers.

Sweet water roots

perhaps just fodder - baggy descriptive somethnig..
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Only Love

. Only Love By Paul McCann I was walking down the street with the sunshine at my feet and the summer had arrived . We all sat in a commune . It was...
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Poem of the week
Pick of the Month

Illicit Exercise

I’ve taken to running around the field behind my house - you might not call it running - but there is an element of privacy the field affords which...
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Disenchantment 14

***** Persephone awoke. She felt a little groggy, like waking up with the effects of drugs wearing off. She looked around, she seemed to be in a...
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Aleppo Mon Amour

a flickering festoon of broken bulbs and shabby bunting adorns the souk like bridal jewellery amid water hissing and electric crackling a subtle...

Dream You Life

within my arms. And as I lay here thinking of how I pursued you- that glint that smile in your eye caught me unaware how I dreamed of one like you...

To Catch a Thief - Part One - The Deed is Done (1 of 1)

There's a new thief stalking the streets of Ankh-Morpork, and Commander Samuel Vimes of the City Watch will find that persuing this law-breaker will take him places he never expected. This is a piece of Discworld fanfiction. All characters, locations and concepts are the intellectual copyrighted material of Terry Pratchett and his associated publishers.
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Story of the week

I, The First Gurrier

I don’t know why this forest. Or this day, this year, this life even. But here I am. You know, they’ll believe a man walked on the moon but as soon...
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Thinking Out Loud

I've read in ancient forest, sung to Autumn's fallen leaves that blew away with ease in October's breeze, I could recite Autumn by Keats with...

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