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Flight of the Flightless
It came from the sky; silence shattered as it fell. A domino unknowingly set by persons no longer present. Tense silence followed in its wake. Waves...
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Ridgeline - Part Five: Flinch and Hold
She didn't move. The dog didn't move. Ten feet of gravel between them and the dusk thickening into something heavier and the dog sat on its haunches...
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Between the Gold and Blue
From the clifftop they soar The rocks and ocean below At least Icarus tried Never too high nor too low Expectations a cooling updraft Melted wings...
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Blues Moon Haiku Set
Thinning blonde hair streaked with grayish silver here and there divine, dabbled paint Spilled Prozac pills; thin cup-boards, and worried brows...
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A Strange Feeling
Walking back to the car, I took a breather on the High Street. My bags were large and heavy, and my lungs were small and light. Downhill was fine,...
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Penny Pass the Story - Part 10
Polanski, the too handsome cop, with a face you wouldn’t forget, stepped into the Sheriff’s office. “You look baffled, Chief. What’s up?
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Delighted to get out!
6 April Such a bright, warm day, a walk along a little river in Bucknell village. Sunlight glinting on the water, and the tumbling, bubbling sound of...
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Bron-30
“That all you have, Bron?” Grace pointed to the plastic holdall and six overstuffed carrier bags on the landing of Flat 3 on Great Cumberland Place...
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After You'd Gone
After you'd gone, sometimes we would wake and find you still there in the favourite chair, in the dust-ridden front room alive with the sunlight...
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Ridgeline - Part Four: Wrong Direction
She picked left. No reason. The trail forked where she stood — not a real fork, just the loop continuing in both directions — and she picked left...
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Penny’s Pass the Story Part 10
Part 9 at: https://www.abctales.com/story/penny4athought/pass-story-chapter-9 Penny’s 'Pass the Parcel’ Part 10 Milton wanted to flick another rolled...
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Joe - a dinosaur theme park story with hotdogs.
Joe This morning Hodges tells me I’m on triceratops. I don’t do triceratops I say and he says you don’t do triceratops there’s a million other smart-...
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Sounds of the City
The sounds of the city, mixed with my mind, is all I can take some insomniac nights: the quiet yet throbbing hum of street-lights; the steady, lion-...
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Ridgeline - Part Three: The Cut
She didn't run. She should have run. The Civic was sixty yards ahead and the stroller was built for jogging and her legs had been running twenty...
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Ridgeline - Part Two: The Man on the Trail
Her hands moved first. Before she registered the cargo shorts or the 5K t-shirt or the mask bunched under his chin — before any of that assembled...
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Ridgeline - Part One: The Trail
The walls were doing it again. Not moving — she wasn't that far gone. But the apartment had a way of pressing inward at four o'clock, when the blinds...
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Pass the Penny Story Challenge 10.
Jenny wanted to wrap herself in the bearskin rug on the cabin floor and take refuge in the forest. She didn’t want to kill anybody, but her daughter...
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Three Cinquains
You Glow You glow with love for me. Accepting all I give, never questioning if I love. I don’t. T ears F all Tears fall like rivers of pain...
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Did you know?
This one's from my 1968 Notebook - actually written in 1970. I was 20 and into Astrology. Did you know? Did you know that Cancer was compatible with...
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Don't lose your cheer
Have you lost your cheer? Oh dear! Because of what you think is near? Well I bear good news that you must hear, and I aim to make it very clear. That...
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