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The Tiny-Handed Dwarf: Jebediah Knickerthorpe's Unexpected Gift
To compensate for their short stature, dwarfs were gifted with large hands and feet. (They also had the ability to grow long, flowing beards within a...
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The Waste of Space
After a heave, there appeared a bloater. Wobbling around, a spectacular floater! Any bigger, and I could install a motor. If it stood for Parliament...
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I. Deep Storage - Part Two
Friday. Three-ten. She told the supervisor she needed to check a lot number in Section E for a discrepancy on her cataloguing sheet. He was eating an...
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The Stand In
St Peter, having stood sentry at heaven's entrance for two millennia, took a break (gone fishing in the Celestial Lakes). In his stead, a cat stands...
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The UFO Bible 8
At last Matthew was on board the huge spacecraft that was going to take him and his team to preach the gospel to another planet. There were bright...
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Properties of Cantor's Ternary Set
First I describe two different constructions for Cantor's Set, then investigate some of its very special properties. It is not hard to prove these...
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Lonesome Dove
Note : spoiler alerts Some time ago HarryC recommended the epic Western novel Lonesome Dove to me. It took some time but I got it out of the library...
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in the wake of Ozymandias
consolidated collected, disassembled escaped; a shuffle construction, random displacement and absence. and it all swirls around, using up time. slate...
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Easter Sunday
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] So many believe anything that is odd, but deceived, won’t believe in an almighty God, and think it absurd...
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I. Deep Storage - Part One
The gloves were her own. The county provided a box of disposable nitrile, blue, size medium, restocked every Monday in the supply closet beside the...
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Is Kerry Katona a Cat Owner?
Marching on together through the first fifteen days of the month at a steady rate of one hundred words per day.
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Please Jesus, What kind of self-indulgent, delusional, and immoral monsters do I see before me ?
Do not fear monsters, my friend...
an empty floating
echo space expanded extensive extended a simple drop of water blue purple crystal in a shattered sphere and the glint of something hidden drifting in...
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Bron-28
Continued from Chapter 27: Bron-27 | ABCtales “Well, if I had a pound for every bugger who said what a character he was I’d be … well, I wouldn’t be...
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Artemis Too?
I saw their projected track, the one where they'll lasso the moon: a figure 8 to the dark side - and back? What if they don't make it? What if it's...
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Crisis
Crisis is their chief export Unrest their unloved child The promises they make broken Huddled masses long to be free of them We are such a deafened...
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Since April
The mockingbird on the gutter has been running through his list since before the sun came up. He does not stop for traffic. He does not stop for me...
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McCann case 3
In a world of nothing, the social-work office was the centre. Being a social-work client stripped away humanity. Left a covering layer of dignity,...
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A List
Dogs and their expressions, Holidays in Greece. Taking music lessons, The chance of global peace. Sunlight on a summer dress, Laughing with a friend...
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