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The Doll's House Chapter 6.
Chapter Six . Siddly. Siddly was quiet. The houses were close together, their roofs sloping low as if trying not to be noticed. The streets were...
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The Ashton Road Gang Chapter 7. July Part 2
All the buses had gone, as had the ambulance. Mr. Peach was bent over a car talking to someone inside. As I ran up, the door opened and Mr Plunkett...
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The Ashton Road Gang Chapter 7. July
Chapter Seven. School Sports. At the beginning of July, the Headmaster of my Junior School stood on the stage. Mr. Plunkett took Assembly every...
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Keep On (6)
The man looked at his watch again and then at the room. He took it in the way he had taken in the little room downstairs. The calendar with the...
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Keep On (5)
The first thing he did in the dark was find the switch. He knew where it was. End of the bench, front of the gray box. He leaned for it the way he...
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Flashback
Memories flood in from meeting old friends at a funeral
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Old Walls - Part 5
‘It’s funny how the brain works isn’t it, Roz. Memories locked away, sequestered, I don’t mean important memories, just mundane things, details, you...
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The Doll's House Chapter 5,
Chapter Five. Bilton, Darrowmere, and Hestlewick. Bilton was a small town, not far from the edge of the Dark Forest. Rows of neat cottages lined the...
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The Ashton Road Gang Chapter 6 June.
Chapter Six. Fits. While the rest of the gang had to make do with second-hand or home built bikes, Simon had a brand new, drop-handle bar racing bike...
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The Bungalow-21
Continued from Chapter 20: The Bungalow-20 | ABCtales Chapter 21 It was no golden evening Clouds ramped up against the ridge of the hill. Crows...
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Our Metronome
He walks, our metronome, like a well-made poem past our kitchen window each day, 12.20 one way, 3.15 back again, surprisingly light on his feet and...
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Keep On (4)
For a while he only held the microphone. Under the hiss, on the other end, he could hear the room the man was in. A chair took weight and gave it...
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Frankenplot - The Gentleman's Wardrobe Part 2
As their son’s wedding approached, two things happened. Ian and Sylvia began struggling to sleep well. They considered the reasons why; latent...
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The Ashton Road Gang Chapter 5. May Part 2.
For the next ten days we saw nothing of Mrs. Blaggard. I overheard Mum and Stew’s mother talking about how bad tempered the old woman was becoming. "...
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The Ashton Road Gang Chapter 5. May
Chapter Five. Roller Skates and Boards. I was in trouble again. Not with my parents this time, but with old Mrs. Blaggard. "You wait till I see your...
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The Doll's House Chapter 4.
Chapter Four. The Search Begins. Sophrayni left the clerk’s office with the names of five towns echoing in her mind: Wilford, Bilton, Darrowmere,...
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Poem IV · The Bill of Sale
Poem IV · the one who supplies and profits Bill of Sale The bystander world: the ones who look away in Poem III, and what they do with their hands...
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Whitechapel Via Monto
I had tasted exhaustingly distinguished and mad company before in Dublin and elsewhere during Patrick’s travels with the Gaelic League. Didn’t he...
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Keep On (3)
He said it a third time, word for word, and let go of the bar. The hiss came back. He had begun to hear things in it. A rise and fall like breathing...
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cotton
Stir before first light Last until last light A man forgotten Hard pew on a Sunday Abraham and Isaac The only sitting Preacher say black man be free...
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