Cherrypicked stories
My beautiful sad friend
I got sad news about the mental health of a friend who is extremely dear to me. So I just wrote them down. It's incredible how this kind of circumstance can make it clear how fiercely we love people.
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Beauty awakens the soul to act
“I will finally tell you my big secret,” her mother said. Without emotion, without any embarrassment. As if she were telling her daughter what...
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Parcel for you....Part 27
Vanessa laughed. It was late and she was too tired for anger to surface but vulnerable to silly exhausted giggles. The insinuation was absurd and if...
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9 Room 13
Room 13 Unlucky - or maybe lucky - for some. That's it for the week, maybe more on Monday. Image made at canva.com.
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8 That's Veterans for You
And some more... None of the characters are real, but some of the things they say and do have been done... By someone. Write what you know, eh? Image made at canva.com
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New Moon in Gemini - Changing Perception
It was a cleansed and purified white-blue day. Long walk to the next village, under the new moon. Rain forecast. The light, a shifting combination of...
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This Sort of Thing - May 2024 - Up to the Oche
Words of nuance, words of skill. Words when Leeds have lost four-nil.
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Stop Her On Sight (S.O.S.) (Dead Reckoning series - Part 12)
In which crime is afoot, much to the annoyance of D.I. Wood and his foot!
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Weather
Living in the countryside, you become a weather watcher. Especially by the coast. Not just for planning journeys or what coat to wear, but because...
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7 Cod Dickensian Crap
'More?' Be careful what you wish for. "Ah luv metafiction Ah do" Overheard something as unlikely as that in a pub once. This one's for whoever it was... Book cover image created ad canva. Book mockups at diybookcovers.com
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"exhalt in beauty" -tanka
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Breathatking Beauty and design
Velvety, soft petal, sepal, tepal deepest purple …
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Never Ever Forever Land
Never Ever Forever Land By Paul McCann There’s a place that I know of , I’m sure you’d love to go there , To never ever forever land everyone can...
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The DWQ (Dunk-Whunk Quotient)
I am a great believer that, harming none, and while amongst consenting adults, activities in the privacy of one’s own home are one’s own affair. This...
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The Spice of Life
The musings of an elderly observer of what can be seen in other people’s shopping trolleys.
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Bufo Bufo
Renewed my membership to ‘Gordon Castle Walled Garden’ on June 1 st . Pension day. Drove to the garden centre for long-tom terra cotta pots. Since it...
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As You Wish
If your life is unbearable, what do you wish for? Rewrite of something posted in response to an IP nine years ago. Old IPs never die, they just get much needed edits...
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6 "You'll Hear My Voice, On the Wind, 'Cross the Sand"
1000 words in total today. A long time since I've done that. Anyway, here is more of this. And I hope you've all been ear-wormed by the time you get to the end...
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5 Smokin'
This might be the next one off the production line, I'll let you know. Image made at Canva.com The first 2000 words are here https://www.abctales.com/collection/prospero-vint
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A BUTTERFLY, PT. 2
A BUTTERFLY , PT. 2 He had parked his car on the fifth floor, which meant a lift to the ticket machine on the fourth and then an escalator up. With...
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