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The Quality Circle (Part 1)
The rating terminals glowed in the break room like confession booths, blue-white screens waiting for judgment. Marlene Vickers had passed them a...
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Merry Christmas, Mom - Part XIII
After living for sixty-four years, you had to depart. You were a terrific mother who had a huge heart. You were one of the world's greatest mothers...
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Growing
Vanishing. The room again disappeared around them. Lore was beginning to understand Catherine’s disorientation warning; the cube, so far, had been an...
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CEPHALALGIA.
In covid time, if a person had, a sore throat, fever, aching bones, sneezing, coughing, runny nose, or eyes, wheezing it was clear before the covid...
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Advent Promise
Advent Promise A long the halls of time D eclaring hope for all mankind V ision after vision sending hope E ach prophecy following on N ew hope...
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Shadow's Echo.
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
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
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
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
Hmm... I'm sure you'll work it out
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FIRE!!
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
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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- 304 reads
Shopping to Excess - (2025 Remix)
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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a song of africa
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...
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I prophesy Amoebas
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 …
… 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
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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Dread December.
I can sense dread December about to roll in, and you can too I suspect. In rolling in it will obnubilate the soft November memories that I’m...
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Essential.
I thought it would be easy, I had written it down as one of the things on my to do list. But when I got to that on my list, it wasn’t in the first...
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