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Goatie 25
I kept my eyes on the door. Aware she was behind me, growing like a wave on the sea, but it would be me that left no trace when she was gone. I had...
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Goatie 24
‘Yeh hink dogs can by psychic?’ Archie pondered. I wasn’t sure if he was talking to himself or me. I was going to keep silent, but muttered, ‘Dunno...
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In A Place Of Respite
In forest dream, I draw on such sensations, my world suspended between sky and earth; where tiny insects crawl, some fly to unhurried silence,...
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Silas Nash book 1: Hush Hush Honeysuckle: Chapter 18 (a)
It was getting harder to keep a lid on things—stories leaked from the incident room every day, things that only the team had access to. Paranoia was...
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Goatie 23
Being in prison was like dossing under a motorway bridge. Constant noise and always something going on. Shaking you up. Droopy Eyes talking about...
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‘As useful as a chocolate teapot!'
I’m a chocolate teapot looking swell; but for tea I’m useless – heat will tell! Collapsing in hot water – I will keep cool and idle, or I’m soon a...
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Goatie 22
Droopy Eyes came back to work in a good mood. It was half-five before she got back to me in the medic room. And she’d soon be knocking off for...
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Shadowy Visions Of The Past
These days you've probably seen more interesting cupboards than mine, but lately I haven't felt the need to shower my taste buds in the joys that...
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Silas Nash book 1: Hush Hush Honeysuckle: Chapter 16
‘Didn’t somebody come to our borough asking about a missing sister in Morecambe?’ Nash asked. He’d come out of the interview two days earlier and...
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Dragon Gate
Dragon Gate They came during the spring near banks of oriental ochre, an amalgam of golden scales, amassed; mighty Yellow River. A brazen sun called...
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Goatie 21
I didn’t know what to think when Droopy Eyes left. I was stuck with Marie Osmond’s classics. I’d the Medic’s room to myself for whole weekend...
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Silas Nash book 1: Hush Hush Honeysuckle Chapter 15 (b)
Nash took the new pictures and put them in front of the ones he already had. Max had a glimpse of the file, and there seemed to be a stack of photos...
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Budapest, Hungary
Wed. June 28 th , Budapest, Hungary and on away home We were up early at 5 A.M. and had breakfast in the main dining room. Then, we readied for our...
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Goatie 20
‘What’s the matter with you?’ she said when she came back. ‘You look a bit jumpy?’ ‘Nae wonder, that was fucking weird.’ I was lying in bed, with the...
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Vienna, Austria
Monday, June 26, 2023- Vienna, Austria We were up early at 4 A.M. We prepped for the day and then breakfasted in the main dining room. Most of the...
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Silas Nash book 1: Hush Hush Honeysuckle. Chapter 15 (a)
Max was fifty-four hours into the ninety-six that they were allowed to keep him before charging him or letting him go. They went through the same...
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The Cape Sparrow
“Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?” Cape Sparrow ( Passer Meralunus ) Afrikaans – Gewone...
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Looking for a happy fix
Immanuel looks at me and seems very happy. His broad arms pause on the threadbare armrests of the easy chair I bought in a thrift shop last year...
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Goatie 19
Reverend Souttar had the soft shuffle of a sleepwalker. Code Blue had come and gone. Droopy Eyes took his arm and helped him sit down on the edge of...
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Walking Through The Fire
For as long as he could remember, Gary had sought solace in music when times were difficult for him.The Bruce Springsteen lyric that mentioned...
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