Cherrypicked stories
'You shouldn't have opened the cap!'
‘These have hatched overnight.’ Derilda gasped, panic streaming in her eyes as she scanned the laboratory floor. ‘There’s more over here, these ones...
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Fruit Basket
A sequel to ‘In a stew’ In a stew | ABCtales It’s Oliver onion’s second allotment meeting as chair and already it’s proving to be as sticky as the...
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Goatie 6
The cells below the station. A place of grey and dark colours. Banging doors and the shouts of ‘Turnkey, Turnkey’ and the stink of a dog fight to the...
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The Birdman of Alcatraz
A feathered friend - (200 words)
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Lying in State? (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 15)
In which Josiah, Archibald and Chantelle pay their respects and get a surprise, for very different reasons.
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Hawthorn
Anyone know if this IS a Hawthorn?? Anyway, it's the one I can see from the window of The Writer's Den. Image photo taken this morning.
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Goatie 5
All of a sudden your life is not what it was. Your brain does its best to catch up. I don’t know what’s happening. I feel like greeting, or giving...
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Sonnet for Philbey
I used to hold her in one hand...
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Hereafter: A Holodog Story (Part Three of Three)
Part One at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/hereafter-holodog-story-part-on... Part Two at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/...
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That long nose!
Starfish Girl suggested that as I had written on Nose, and she on Trunk, I should try one on the famous nose. This is a revision of an old one …
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Excerpt from Sunset (a short story)
I was 14 years old, content with the notion of having no ambition. Life was a flow of empty thoughts that I dragged along behind me. School was a...
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The Picture Ranch 71
'So you don't know anything about what happened?' Eleanor G blew some smoke into the air. The sky was turning as red as her lipstick. 'No more n'you...
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The Picture Ranch 70
70 up. Reckon I know where I'm going... Does Fisher? Image created by me at canva.com
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Hereafter: A Holodog Story (Part Two of Three)
Part One at https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/hereafter-holodog-story-part-on... Hereafter: A Holodog Story (Part Two of Three) The last...
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Cheers!
Builders abandoned their half-finished house, meaning two husbands arrived, to add to mine. Loaded, with sixteen cases of wine, one loo roll and a...
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Hereafter: A Holodog Story (Part One of Three)
Hereafter: A Holodog Story (Part One of Three) Before the midwife had even finished making sure he was breathing, Harold Newman’s fate was sealed. He...
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The Picture Ranch 69
Bet you've given up on this! [I almost did, too]. But I'm going to KDP it when it's done - and I've pulled the loopholes tight and rescued the dangling threads. Image source is Pinterest, but the image is PD... and yes, that is Buster in drag.
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Am I a Snob?
Am I a snob, of sorts? I was driving home from work on Sunday (if only people were still paid double time, I might even get close to the average wage...
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Joy Of Connecting To The Land
Leaning on rake I stand motionless, mind adrift on thoughts of meadow grass and flowers; observing half hidden robin unclasp writhing worm among...
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