Cherrypicked stories

One thread extracted from a sort of dystopian novel from 2015, following the genesis of two characters. 1 Wednesday March 26 72AGF 9.30am 'It's not...

Science fiction

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Bonnie Prince Charlie in London, 1750

By Angusfolklore on Wed, 04 May 2022

Years after Culloden, in the despondent London fog, the fat, failed, drunken Stuart indulged his ancestral homeland with an unbidden visit. The Young...

Poem

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indigo

By Di_Hard on Wed, 04 May 2022

In-dig O, Earth, our slow whirled world here, find waiting flowers of Love everlasting safe-kept all year for two weeks in May, every year whatever...

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Felonious Tongue-Twister

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 04 May 2022

First and fleetest ran the fleecers as the sheriff’s ambush fell flushing gamblers from false gaming – fake their loaded dice, the fleeced now...

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The Past, Passed #2

By drkevin on Wed, 04 May 2022

It's strange the things that are remembered. The arbitrary slice of a mind dismembered. I always loathed the slippery prune. Never got around to...

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Drugs - Where's the harm? - 2

By Ray Schaufeld on Wed, 04 May 2022

After 12 years out of hospital and leading an independent life in the community I went down with post-covid psychosis and had 4 weeks back in. I have...

Autobiography

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Certificate 15