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Bronte's Inferno XX (The Sphinx Principle)
The Sphinx Principle is the technique behind one of the great stage illusions of The Golden Age of Magic. Image author's own created using pd items with canva.com
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All Hallows Eve
Audio version at: https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/all-hallows-eve-mp3 All Hallows Eve A cacophony of clocks striking, mordant midnight memories...
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Ugly Puggly 99
Molly said if a job is worth doing it’s worth doing right, or something along those lines. It suited us both. She hadn’t trusted me to pack the...
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Love Conquers Pt. 1
A young Weaver in the land of Outerworld seeks advice from a well worn adventurer and gets more than he bargained for!
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Golden Valley* in October
“ Golden Valley*”: wide, bright green fields, but misty mysterious, atmospheric this day. Far hills, sentinels, peer over from beyond. Up on the...
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Down Pigsty Hill
I love the bus that rolls down Pigsty Hill and sees the city fish-eyed, from the top. Past every crack on every windowsill, it chunters slowly to the...
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4. Belfast Simon Community 1978 - I am taken into the office
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The clean-cut English guy who carried my case and my heavy bag up two flights of stairs was Adrian Clift. He was 23 - the average age for us lot. He...
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The Last Man Left In The Union
After Peter Wyton (look him up, he's very good)'s The Last Man Left In The Air Force. Image from website (BTW we do). Audio here http://writemark.blogspot.com/2019/02/updated-leaflet-for-trade-unions-w... Permission for use requested.
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Ballad of Misery and Hope
The human race with its gullible face Has finally opened its eyes We believed what politicians told us all Despite the suspicion of lies The human...
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Ugly Puggly 98
‘You look nice,’ Dave told Molly. He wanted to take us out to dinner, but I’d said it was stupid and we could just eat in. I found myself glancing at...
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heart string's part two (Emily)
the second part of a three part drama
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heart string's part one (Tom)
this is a three part drama
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Halloween Boris
This is the eleventh entry in the satirical series at https://www.abctales.com/collection/pandemic-tales-bojo-and-co Halloween Boris Thunder cracked...
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World Pasta Day
25th of October - World Pasta Day
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Chemo 12
I am so proud. My Effie has gone through the night for the first time. For those who don’t normally read my work, Effie is my youngest, just 7 months...
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Ugly Puggly 97
‘How’d it go?’ wee Jim sprung up from his seat. He didn’t wait for an answer. He was already racing towards the door and out into the carpark as if...
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Isolated (Ch 1)
He lights up a cigarette and tells me everything is going to be ok and he has it under control. “You promise?” I asked, holding him closer to me as...
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You Never Know
Dear diary...Friday 21 st October 2022. I had no idea that when today started off, it would end so traumatically. We'd done the usual food shopping...
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Our Second Core Belief is Loyalty-Based Leadership
It was an hour into Friday's night shift when our bosses descended to the warehouse, asking if we wanted to be pirates again. We don't know what you...
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2. Belfast Simon community 1978 - I arrive at my work
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Going back, in my story by about five minutes, I paid the helpful and chatty cabbie and I rang the doorbell. I had expected that I would be met by an...
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