Cherrypicked stories
Love Story 10
Mum floated about smoking between the kitchen and living room. Da ruffled the sports’ pages of the Daily Record to show he was reading and didn’t...
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Blue Haunt
"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it." -- Oscar Wilde
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One Good Turn
...deserves another.
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Parcel for you....Part 6
‘We can’t do it at the table!’
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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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