Cherrypicked stories
Automne Parisien
One for Halloween. Image is from pixabay.com. Might be AI... hmm. Didn't come up on Tin Eye
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May 4th (chapter 2)
Did David just meet 'the one?' Will Eoin show up and ruin the night?
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"Willow's Missing Tail" 11
The stink weeds were placed strategically near the entrance and along the path to Avery’s hidden domain. Willow had provided all the felines and...
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October 2023
Shame : so hard to forget this soft word starting with a Sh! as of secrets, brushed under deep carpets and A in its middle, alphabet's beginning an...
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Dust
There are more questions than answers. Johnny Nash 1972
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open your eyes!
bombing your moral high ground (won at such terrible cost) must always be a tricky manoevre to pull off - before you know where you are, history is...
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Parcel for you....Part 5
Over the following few days, Vanessa, very occasionally and cautiously took Spencer out of ‘depressed man’ setting and engaged him in conversation...
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"Spirit of Sleepy Hollow on All Hallows Eve" Part 4 of 4
Caitlyn righted herself on the seat and held on as the carriage rocked over the uneven road. She looked out the carriage window expecting to see the...
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Record
Record And they are spitting bars in the chapel. I watch my back, my moods switched on. It’s chilly. The prison dialled down until November. Price of...
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I sing therefore I exist
“No one will ever know me. No one will ever recall that I existed. No one will remember my face, my voice, my words, my ideas. “ I hear him grumbling...
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Who is who at the Zoo?
Who is who at the Zoo? Simon & Garfunkel are among the nation’s most revered folk/rock duo and my personal favorite. They are known for many...
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All That Glitters
I posted this on ABC in July 2014. It make me so sad to have to post it again. Nothing's changed except the TV is now 4K
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Can't Take My Eyes Off You (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 41)
In which Chantelle gets Frankie ready to 'return to sender' and Detectives Stone and Wood find watching nothing happening, repeatedly, a bit tedious.
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Love Story 9
Jealousy was an accidental sin. Like stabbing your mum in the eye with a fork, while explaining something which you’d forgotten to mention, but she...
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The Birds were Singing
Total meander, having woken once in the middle of the night and heard the birds singing.
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Animal Crackers
It's like when you're visiting friends who have animals, they just assume you are comfortable with unusual birds flapping by year earlobes and a...
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Collaborations don't work
This is enough, all the mums say. Everyone knew someone at primary school who pushed on the roundabout too hard. 'It would be easier if this child...
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Diner
Diner Outside the diner at 385 Sixth Avenue, humanity ebbed and flowed. It would often take a brief pause to eat then continue on in its mysterious...
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Identity
We resent crush, constant news of hatred and horrors
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