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Sean Happens 13
Miss Dill went to run the bath. She sat smoking on the on edge of the tub, dipping her fingers in to the water to test the temperature. Mr Martin...
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Parcel for you...Part 29
‘Has Annie sent you the tickets?’ Vanessa had just returned from work and she could see that Spencer had a look about him, a buzz which suggested he’...
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An Anarchist Evening at the Magic Theatre
What do you mean you don't understand it? I was hoping you'd explain it to me! More Sack-like than Hessian... Image PD from wikipedia
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Malice Aforethought
The elixir of (eternal) life.
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The things we do for love
“So, if I hear one more time that you have comments on Alexia's piano playing, I will be on your doorstep again. Do you understand? But then it will...
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Words (Dead Reckoning series - Part 17)
In which Samantha takes control, and loses it, at the same time!
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Kilimanjaro
In the ice fields high above, cold, remote, like fading love, crouching with a frozen stare, a luckless leopard lies up there, the scent it followed...
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Life
Once I was a glit in my fathers eye A part of both my parents constitutions And one day I shall be Ashs or a corpse Though Hopefully not today or...
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The Broken Lady
She doesn’t move The broken lady At least when the mortals are passing She may contemplate much From the bounds of her post She’s more than the...
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Next Year, I'm Going to Travel
Travel as metaphor? Probably not... Image: Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0 < https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0> , via Wikimedia Commons
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Holding Onto My Desires And Dreams
Dear diary...new beginnings, expression sagacious as this wisdom prevails, cutting through deep emotional peaks of sickness. When all of nature...
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Extract!
Little (molar) tooth so ragged, broken now just small and jagged: need to take out what remains, anaesthetising likely pains, but the roots are odd...
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Orange Is Not the Only Colour
In 1993, Holland thwarted the English football team in their bid to qualify for the final. In 2024 the situation has been reversed.
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rain
I stood in the rain today...
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“If we shadows have offended, think but this and all is mended.” Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream A Midsummer Night’s Dream Sarsen stones stand...
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Poppies
Poppies Jennifer Pickup 09.07.2024 Amongst the summer crops they each raise a head – Reminding me it’s time to visit the dead, The poppies are...
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Imperfect Beauty
... and by that token, this is very beautiful indeed. Image author's own.
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The mine is dry
“The mine is dry.” So saying Mendip held up a hard, dark nugget. “The last in the mine. There is nothing more.” I took the nugget from him. “Is this...
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Watching You, Chapters Nine and Ten
Chapter Nine ‘It’s that stupid bastard …’ McCain growled through his teeth, then jumped from his chair. ‘No, McCain, it’s okay. I’m the one who’s...
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