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Late Summer Garden Haiku
Sunflowers rising, Hollyhocks tower above bees, butterflies, birds.
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107!!

She sleeps a lot … not unhappy as in younger years … when …
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Amnesty for Midgley
‘Move your feet, Thomas!’ Ruby waited for half a second then tutted and smacked the broom straight into his ankle. ‘Hey, that’s my worst foot,’ he...
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Watching You Chapters Thirty-Seven & Thirty-Eight
Chapter Thirty-Seven ‘So you’re telling me you’ve no idea.’ Preston stared at Jacobs, then raised his eyes to the ceiling. Absolutely not.’ Jacobs...
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Amanderella and the Mystery of the Silent Statue.Chapter 2.
Chapter Two. Radboon Manor. Amanderella slowed as she passed through the village. People did not scatter, as they once had when she arrived on her...
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Problems with time. Chapter 8.
The next morning, Calizone woke early, though not as early as her host. The widow was already up, moving briskly about the hearth and preparing...
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The Bungalow-6

Continued from Chapter 5: The Bungalow-5 | ABCtales It was getting on for dusk by the time Hawke gained the end of Church Lane; the session at the...
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Blæc Sunne

People said the eclipse would be partial. Nothing dramatic. Nothing like the total ones he had seen on television, viewed from foreign deserts or mountaintops. There would just be a dimming. A bite taken out of the sun. Enough to make the morning feel strange, perhaps. But not enough to stop him going about his day.
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Amanderella and the Mystery of the Silent Statue.Chapter 1.
Amanderella and the Statue. Chapter One A Sudden Death. Life for Lady Amanderella Gottsnobbler had settled into a fairly regular routine. She went...
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Problems with time. Chapter 8.

Chapter Eight. Out of Time. A group of weary travellers sat near the hearth, clay mugs in hand, talking quietly. As Calizone passed them, she caught...
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3.2 The Paper Trail
The new Human Resources Manager had joined Mauris Bank a little over a month ago, stepping into an executive post with a private office on the top...
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The Paper Wasp

(Image link: https://media.australian.museum/media/dd/images/Some_image.width-1200.e8... ) The Paper Wasp (2006) One morning a good ten years ago, I...
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Silent Suburb

(My own photo - just snapped through the window. ) Silent Suburb It’s a usual Thursday morning in the Northern suburbs, I know because if I pay...
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Chapter 14 - Fond memories
Lumen woke up. The fire was out and had been for a time, and the sun was already high, filtering through the highest branches above him. Trying to...
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The Cherry Harvester

While several brilliant Russian playwrights have been eclipsed by political censorship, Anton Checkhow survived the Tsarist state periodic crackdown.
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Problems with time. Chapter 7.
Chapter Seven. Along the Great Road. Calizone reached Weyrham just as the light began to fray into evening. The distortions were weaker here, a few...
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Save your Water for The Devil
Save your water for the devil Let the young trees die - the future oxygenators, our only hope for cleaner air. Let the flowers die - Don’t feed the...
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Money for the Circus 14

Another bit of this stuff. Wonder how it'll turn out?
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Angola Gaffletter Chapter 11.
Chapter Eleven. Purchases and Sales. Angola Gaffletter, newly married and newly signed, neatly and without smudges, rose at six, washed, dressed, and...
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