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Song of the Voiceless Choir
Times are changing and so are the rules. Society protects its own. Outcasts are being created at an alarming pace as definitions shrink in scope. The...
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To the Poet's Eye
To the poet's eye, the grass is brilliantly verdant, and the sky is Apollo's chariot strewn race-course. To the poet's eye, a spell of the blues is a...
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“The Song From Moulin Rouge”
Mantovani: 14 th to 20 th August 1953
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A Hungry Bear Doesn’t Dance
No bears were harmed in the writing of this poem.
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Penny’s Pass the Parcel - Part 7
Oliver Padget had been leaning against his mailbox when the black SUV came tearing up Main Street like it owed somebody money. He saw it mount the...
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Tossing tea bags into the harbor
Tossing tea bags into the harbor. Several million Americans gathered together yesterday for “No kings” rallies. There was not a single violent...
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A hundred moments in autism - playing darts
I stand in line with the 20, dart in hand, lean forward slightly, and hold the dart so that is in front of my eyes, bend the elbow back and throw,...
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Ethel the talking duck
“It looks like a long queue,” I said to the person next to me. “How long is the wait?” “It doesn’t work like that,” the man said. “Ethel will talk to...
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in memoriam
alone amidst the barren heath the bleak and bitter moorland a quiet church a lonely grave silent and still somewhere, somewhere out there in quiet...
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Palm Sunday (7)
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Praise to the gentle King, on a donkey riding in; Many hoping He would bring end of Roman rule. But His work...
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A hundred moments in autism - Terrence Oblong’s Messy handwriting
It was the start of the new school year. I was excited. I was now really old, I was eight, which was nearly double figures. However, as I joined my...
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A hundred moments in autism - Terrence goes to Tescos
I am home alone for the bank holiday weekend, with Mrs Oblong away rehearsing with her comedy partner. I spend the weekend slobbing about in the same...
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A hundred moments in autism - Terrence Oblong's feet
I am alone, watching TV after a tough day at work. Mrs Oblong is out, being hilarious somewhere (she’s a stand-up comic). To help me unfurl, I remove...
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Early
It started in November. 5:15, then 5:00. His body dragged him from the sheets as though a debt had just come due. He made the coffee. Drove to work...
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II. Processing - Part Three
She sat at a table. She drank a second cup of water. She held the clipboard. She watched. The facility ran the way a warehouse runs — calibrated,...
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Different perspectives
No idea what it involves? Not going along with the doom-doom stories Not counting aloud the seconds until daybreaks when our planet deflates like a...
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Those Three Words
It was a hot summer night and the beach was burning; a perfect day. She was perfect. The sea glistened on her, salt like diamonds as her heat turned...
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"I Believe"
Frankie Laine: 3rd July to 13th August 1953
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Penny’s Pass the Parcel - Part 6
Part 5 at: https://www.abctales.com/story/makis/pennys-pass-story-part-five Penny’s Pass the Parcel - Part 6 Back at the station, Sheriff Milton...
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Drinking Deeply at the Golden Fleece
Public services these days are vast and costly. Some are essential, and some are.... Well. How do we pay for them? Although some government income is...
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