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The Man in the Funicular
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. - Author: Chris j wood
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Cancer Log 3
Brain cancer 3 I feel like it is time for an update I finished my 10 days of taking my steroids, and they took away almost all of the symptoms that I...
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Do I know you?
I thought to meet her on Sunday morning. Is she a stranger, or not? How much do I know her now, or of the years past, her life before? Friendly, warm...
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Kit Handsome and the busy day at the Big Hotel 6
“Sorry to interrupt guv, and other guv, but we’ve found four garden gnomes and a tortoise. We believe them to be suspicious.” “Speedy!” said Kit in...
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Splendour Of The Woods
Through woodland in silence we ambled, nature's interlacing branches converging; traces of enchantment dressed to impress, drawn softly into shadows...
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The Only Way To Go
What a lift I get from shopping. Time to catch the retail flow. Dropping in with things in mind. The selection is divine. It’s the only way to go. It...
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Kit Handsome and the busy day at the Big Hotel 5
The second cycle ride to the Big Hotel was harder than the first, by now Kit’s trousers had started to chafe his thighs rather seriously. At the...
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Rainwillow Crossing (part 3 of 4)
A man came to the cottage the next morning. Shorgbran, he was called. He adopted an aggressive stance as he waited for Yondel to answer his knocking...
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Song to the Siren: A Titan Story (Part Three of Three)
Part One at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/song-siren-titan-story-part-one... Part Two at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/song-...
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Kit Handsome and the busy day at the Big Hotel 4
The man in the penguin costume was standing outside the main door of the hotel, seemingly waiting for someone, “If you’re here for the mayor’s ball...
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Kit Handsome and the busy day at the Big Hotel 3
“Mr Griffiths has been murdered?” said Kit. “Yes. Shot in the head. I went to ask him about the penguin he reported following him around. He didn’t...
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Song to the Siren: A Titan Story (Part Two of Three)
Part One at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/song-siren-titan-story-part-one... Song to the Siren: A Titan Story (Part Two of Three) “No...
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Kit Handsome and the busy day at the Big Hotel 2
" Morning Kit,” said Mrs Wemborne. “I see that Sally’s got you cycling now, is this part of a fitness drive? It’s nice she’s taking care of you.” “...
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Kit Handsome and the busy day at the Big Hotel 1
“Morning Kit,” said Megson, “I like the cycle gear, Sally’s trying to get you fit again?” Boonhill was a small island, and although Kit Handsome...
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There's Still Enough Time
He looks so nice; an unfolded smile, harmless eyes. No thoughts at the front, only the manners, his mother wrapped up and gave him, when, as a boy,...
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Jumping Trains
Jumping Trains They call this room, ‘The Pod’. Outside. It’s slatted, curved. A brown tortoise shell. Inside. I distribute Mirtazapine, Tramadol,...
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June Roadsides
The leggy surge of waving cowparsley obstructing the view for drivers on the lanes is wilting, the view clearing; now there’s the sudden surprise...
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Summer Holiday? (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 21)
In which Josiah and Chantelle find a mutually beneficial arrangement and the Detectives get all their eggs in one basket!
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Rainwillow Crossing (part 2 of 4)
Rainwillow Crossing had gotten off easy. There was no real other way of looking at it--unless you take survival as just another curse, just a longer...
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Song to the Siren: A Titan Story (Part One of Three)
Song to the Siren: A Titan Story (Part One of Three) Crows perch in a line along a telegraph poll. They seem to be either staring at me or peering...
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