Cherrypicked stories
The Bradbury
What one would do for a bit of peace and quiet. I enjoy my walks to the library each day, tremendously. Stopping to buy that morning’s paper, then...
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Hot Cross Bun Blues
If only they had a branch of Sainsbury’s in the Mississippi Delta.
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Wow! and How?
… and ponder the many ‘How’s and ‘Why’s. …
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Is That All There Is
Chuck sat on the edge of the bed, staring at his hands. They were smooth, like the hands of a younger man, untouched by hard graft. He was a...
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Po(l)em(ic)s [suite]
Sunny Da y In Humberside A sunny day In Humberside And raindrops fall in hell A trawler sails A youth's employed And Maggie says ALL'S WELL...
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Life's Style
I can visit memories of jostling shrubs with prickles that shook me alive in windy times; Of a new-found cat I named JC who adopted our fam-ily...
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Body Talk (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 32)
In which Archibald and Amber find they can help each other out, but questions are asked.
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Perchance a Dream
Or a nightmare? - (Free image fro Pixabay)
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Re-post of "The Iron Kinger
[ THE IRON KINGER Several decades ago, throughout the Northeast, there grew towering groves of American Chestnut Trees. It was an era before the...
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Nellie the Devilment
How smiling eyes and a Derry accent can get you almost anything you want.
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Goatie 37
‘Tainted Love,’ I belted it out and gave it a kind of twist at the end for extra kudos that Mark Almond in his pomp couldn’t have managed. It helped...
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Silas Nash book 1: Hush Hush Honeysuckle: Chapter 29
The knock at the door was timid, and there was a whirring in Max’s head that wouldn’t go away. The tinnitus was getting worse, but it wasn’t that. It...
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Goatie 36
Being tired, didn’t mean I’d sleep. I was always anxious about it, which didn’t help. I’d heard all the usual stuff about being too tired to sleep...
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Steve Mason and the Last Day of School (Part Two of Two)
Part One at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/steve-mason-and-last-day-school-part-one-two Steve Mason and the Last Day of School (Part Two...
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Spotless in Tennessee
A baby giraffe was born with no spots at Brights Zoo in Tennessee on 31 July. The spotless giraffe is incredibly rare.
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A Dose of Frogs
People confide a lot in me – I have one of those faces, I’m told. It’s not something I go looking for. Today a colleague chose to trust me with some...
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Swathed In Nature's Beauty
Remembering that sense of mystery, recalling woodland swathed in wild childhood memory; amid flowing passage of time, wondering if trill congregation...
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Steve Mason and the Last Day of School (Part One of Two)
This is the fourth entry in the series of stories at: https://www.abctales.com/collection/steve-masons-school-days Steve Mason and the Last Day of...
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Goatie 35
Another cop appeared juggling two steaming mugs of tea. He wore a short-sleeved shirt taut over a thick red neck and round ball face. He plonked a...
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Catching Up
Writing was not necessary No cause or even is Just something you did Made mistakes Learned to sneak away And play Games with different rules Grateful...
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