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The Less Miserables Cross a Line (1)
The Sharpie was still warm in Tanner's pocket when the cop car rolled past. He watched it go—slow, deliberate, the officer's head turning to scan the...
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The Last Step
This is the moment. Or it isn’t. Or it never was.
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5. Secondhand Prose
What it says, really. A piece from years ago that I've rewritten to fit with something new. Next morning, I sat down with a pot of coffee and rolled...
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Bron-17
Picture: Peter Thwaite Continued from Chapter 16: Bron-16 | ABCtales “You be OK?” said the Australian woman in the Notting Hill Secondhand Exchange...
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GOODBYE, SOUL BROTHER 2- cont
2.172. Trooper Bowers means Papa Clem’s personal be fruitful and multiply bible. The one he highlights and incumbers with annotation . Papa Clem gave...
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Signal Failure
He holds the door for her without comment. She presses the lift button for both of them. He steps aside on the pavement so she can walk on the inside. She slows her pace when he falls half a step behind.
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A Recipe for Life
Into a pot place a modicum of strife With a splash of dry wit, reflective of life; Then a sprinkle of caution, just to be sure That humour and...
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Last Week's Oranges
In our local book club last week, we had a quiz, to kick things off. The book club theme was Oranges, so the quiz had 9 purported titles. You had to mark the ones you thought were real books, who wrote them, if you marked them as books. Others were films, LP- I mean albums, or other cultural things. One was a red herring. (Should have been orange, eh?) Last Week's Oranges. Now, that answer is a real one. [Image source Wikipedia Commons placed in the public domain by Downtowngal ]
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Inspiration point ( IP )
Inspiration point (IP) Recipe… …behind screens, soft light, handing over to night shift caring and sharing TLC agreed tender loving care administered…
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Moment
Everything happens at once, or seems to.
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