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Suspended Between Two Worlds

Dear diary...writing my feelings down in a poem at this time helps to put life in perspective, with all the niggling traumas that leave me fretful. A...
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"All the leaves are brown..."

"all the leaves are brown And the sky is grey" The stillness of the pond Ruffled by a solitary magpie "one for sorrow" Head down pause to drink And...
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Summer Rain

Swimming in a sea of brain fog bewilderment A not so mellow muggy mist Sluggish and stale And the slow dark throb of a long lost headache A dark...
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Constant presence

A notification, a green circle longing to be read, dread the thought of what's been said. Or what hasn't, isn't that the truth? Pen digs into the...
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Mutability

©©After reading Delay, by Elizabeth Jennings, these lines came to me. (Image courtersy of Wikimedia Commons)
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The Owl and the Pussycat

This image was originally posted to Flickr by Internet Archive Book Images It was reviewed on 21 October 2017 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the No known copyright restrictions.
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BREAK DOWN OF A BREAKDOWN

BREAK DOWN OF A BREADOWN Marooned in his corner, a plum-less Jack Horner, Alone midst the multitude, social ineptitude, Vocal decrepitude, self-...
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Pudding Detective - Chapter 2 - Catch me if you can

Think about this for a moment. If you were making the yummiest cake in the world, one that would blow away all your taste buds you ever had, what would be the ingredient you just had to include...
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Parcel for you...Part 30

‘There,’ Annie pulled the rim down so that it obscured his forehead, ’that’s better, you can’t see his face as much.’ Spencer stopped in his tracks...
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'Unwanted Magic" 7

The family finished the grilled burgers and hotdogs and with their hunger sated, they all felt too lazy to continue on the adventure but it was Joey...
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Tom's Secret

A story I started a while back that needs continuing, I think! Tom was in the kitchen. On tiptoes with hands resting on the sink he was just able to...
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Making Potions

A girl in my son's nursery class had her leg amputated at the knee. ‘Her leg was poorly so the doctors asked if they could cut it off, and she said ‘...
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Tang Hall Beck

Sunny Saturdays with the sticklebacks and my friend John Lancaster. A memory of York from 1966.
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Escape

Even on the tops you can see our hand. There are no buildings to block the gaze, no streetlights, no cars or tarmac. But giant skeletons walk the...
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Hamster and Thatcher (deceased) - the water companies

Sir Keith Hamster, newly-elected Labour Prime Minister, is keen to re-shape socialism for the 21 st century, but none of the policy wonks in his...
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My Girl and Me (Dead Reckoning series - Part 18)

In which Archibald digs his heels in, Mr. Strine offers solidarity (up to a point!) and Samantha tries her womanly wiles.
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Eric’s War

A concise history of World War Two as told to me long ago by my dear old friend Eric. Additional material was provided by his lovely wife Peggy.
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Poem of the week

Rain at the Forest Cafe

A morning coffee stop at a café in a clearing.. Rain at the Forest Cafe Fairy lights glimmer as I drink coffee at a bustling forest café – Dogs under...
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Sean Happens 14

Mr Dill wiggled his eyebrows. ‘A hole didn’t use to be a place where you took money out of…It could have been much more painful than that.’ ‘Could...
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Tripping

I seem to remember one book where the whole cosmos could be explained with a single word. It's not quite the same for me, but 'tripping' seems to...
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