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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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Sweaty
Sweaty was jumpy. He reached for a wrench. Rubbed grit from the window and squinted his one good eye to look through plastic into the yard. Neither...
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"Unwanted Magic" 1
A blue ribbon of light flew over mountains and grasslands, raced through a forest of trees glistening with morning dew and slipped into the window of...
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Original Sin
The original miscarriage of justice
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Wasn't that a party
It is inevitable. She knows for sure that there will be a day when she cannot say no. But how does that work? She is burying her head in the sand...
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Original
After hours in the kitchen I toss words in a salad. Caesar’s romaine head, some Greek, One wedged trojan. (Homer wrote of men With their heads in...
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EAT YEH
Chained outside McGinlay’s coal yard—a dog called EAT YEH, the size of a small bison. Howling, choking and mad eyed to get at you. EAT YEH had a...
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Parcel for you...Part 14
There was no arguing with Spencer’s claim. Vanessa was quite thrown by it, she opened her mouth to respond but something stopped her, a feeling that...
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Enoshima (Part Two of Two)
Part One at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/enoshima-part-one-two Enoshima (Part Two of Two) On a fateful Friday afternoon, Kai was walking...
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Only Here for The Poets
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Four.
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Beyond
Beyond the politics of it all and the snowstorms that slam our souls with waves of words that contradict everything we are, the morning glories will...
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Ghost Writing
It won't last, I'm sure. Before long readers will discover that I am a fraud. That the writings published under my name, are not mine but have been...
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Enoshima (Part One of Two)
Enoshima (Part One of Two) Some marriages aren’t meant to last. People meet in circumstances that create a fairy-tale; a confluence of chance...
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New Directions (3)
3 The middle of Cambridge is well off for pubs. Dev seemed to know the place better than me. I half followed him along a short pedestrianised street...
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Lovely Palace, Must Fly
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Three.
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Beginnings
Joggins Nova Scotia presents layers of history finally uncovered within ancient rocky sheets of civilization as drawers in office settings. See the...
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Parcel for you...Part 13
After the update, Vanessa received another email from Cybermate Worldwide, advising her from now on to only place her husband on low functional...
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