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The Hall of Glass Coffins
THE HALL OF GLASS COFFINS Every winter in Rome, one of the starlings migrating to the Mediterranean from the northern hemisphere detaches itself from...
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The Other Side of Paradise
The Other Side of Paradise I can still remember standing at the side of a dirt track, a sodium-coloured sun high in the sky. The heat made the air...
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The Buried Treasure
"X" marks the spot. (Image from Wikimedia Commons in the public domain)
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Risk Averse
Or risk a verse... Cartoon by Russell source Flicker.com artist Russell. Licence : CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Deed
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Lacking a Home, Not a Soul
I’d like to share a lesson it’s taken me years to learn. That homeless people are people too. That may seem odd to you if you’re in another nation,...
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'Parcel for you..' Part 2
‘No. I wish I was.’ ‘I’m a bit taken aback to be honest, Vanessa.’ There was a short period of silence. ‘I know….and I’m really sorry. I was having a...
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Jacques in the Box
A mysterious woman’s trunk of treasures.
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Geese
Geese Across an England October zinc sky, they come. Sketched at angles as if to resemble flags dragged. The Geese are migrating. Rain falls and I...
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'Parcel for you..'
‘Parcel for you. Shall I bring it inside?’ Vanessa was puzzled by the enormous cardboard box on the doorstep.’Oh, what is it? It looks heavy.’ The...
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"Spirit of Sleepy Hollow on All Hallows Eve" (short story) Part 2 of 4
Part one was written last Halloween, and its taken me a year to get back to it and post part 2. I've added a link to part 1 here, and hope to post the final 2 parts before, or on, Halloween. https://www.abctales.com/story/penny4athought/spirt-sleepy-hollow-all-ha...
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Personal Pandora
The past is done, the future not yet written
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The Longest Wait
A parody with apologies to Samuel Beckett.
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Is She Really Going Out With Him? (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 39)
In which the Detectives think they're getting closer to their man and Josiah thinks the same about Chantelle!
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I'll Think About Writing
Doggerel, might make you laugh, though. Picture is mine, so there!.
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Poem for the Goalie
Poor Sam Bartram was between the posts in the black and white days. One day he waited too long between the posts when a white out fog came down and...
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A LITTLE BIT INTERESTING
A Little Bit Interesting TIme for an update on my cancer story. When I last wrote I had been given a very good result on my MRI scan for my brain...
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600 Lullabies-chap17 <stripped>
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction - Sir Issac Newton. It’s a vector equation, a type of measurement. What it can’t measure is...
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