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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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
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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.
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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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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...
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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...
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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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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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