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Ashes to Ashes (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 52)

We're at the gates of the crematorium and time is definitely running out for Frankie, but there's a shock in store for Samantha, too!
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Moon Over Armley
Moon Over Armley An angry cloud converses with the lunar. The sixpence sphere will always rise above. In Armley prison darkness arrives sooner. A...
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Cheers

Another gone. Per Ardua Ad Astra, Blue skies.
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'A bump of originality'*

… an unexpected twist, insertion, a catch in the rhythm a …
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Silent Mystic

January 25 th sees the first Full Moon of the year, colloquially known as the Wolf Moon. Silent Mystic Silver light cascades on a tree-lined panorama...
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Just Deserts

The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Seven.
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New Directions (5)
The tea arrived on a small silver tray which looked like the ones that get experts excited on endless antique TV shows. If the tray excited them, the...
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Parcel for you..Part 16
Spencer pulled away from Pat and began putting the finishing touches to the table. ‘It’s nearly ready to eat,’ he said flatly. ‘Good. Please sit down...
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Act! A Poem for Basildon
Act! Looking from the window above, like a story of love. Can you hear me? — Yazoo, Only You. 1982 I'm lonely here. There are no poets here. Oh yes,...
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The Glowing Man ( Adam Maxwell-Farquhar - Tale 5)

After my experiences in France, I returned to Aberdeen, and being somewhat distressed by my experiences there, I was deemed to be ‘distressed’ by the...
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Sparrow Hawk

We had this visitor recently, while sitting in our conservatory enjoying a coffee and watching birds feeding in our garden. What inpressed us was how swiftly it arrived and the same when it departed. (Image courtesy of Ebor from Pixabay)
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Razzmatazzed in Yaz’d

The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Six.
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Granite Noir
Ryan had never been particularly good at solving problems in his life. It was always left to someone else to pick up the pieces after the event, if...
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Parcel for you...Part 15
Over the course of the next few days, Spencer became thoroughly preoccupied with his role as dinner party chef, browsing recipe books, researching...
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Body and Soul (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 51)

In which Archibald complains about his future, and Chantelle worries that Frankie might not have one!
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Fear of Flying

They call it civil aviation, but is it at all civil...
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"Unwanted Magic" 2

The dad stared at the big dog and shook his head with confusion and concern. “I thought I heard that dog speak,” the dad, Jack, whispered to his wife...
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New Directions (4) re-write
No Paul now. I hope this is clearer.
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The Iran - Tie Rack War

The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Five.
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The Muse

Aptly summing up my many lost inspirations, when I thought I'd remember that line in the morning; instead of getting up and writing it down. ( Image of Calliope courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
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