Cherrypicked stories
Ugly Puggly 93
I’m not sure how it came about that Dave and Darrell ended up saying they’d stay the night. Maybe it was because Darrell uncorked a bottle of white...
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The Day Before the Internet
On the day before the internet the vast stone cogs that drove the analogue world groaned with foreboding. Birds flew backwards in the end of days sky...
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Climate, Change.
IP Interesting times.
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Bronte's Inferno XVII (Probably In His Underpants)
More of this? Afraid so. Image is free to use from clipart library.
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Bronte's Inferno XVI (All The Terrible Books)
Remember this? Hoping to get a novella out of it. Image made by me at canva.com. People component from clipart.com, free for non-commercial use.
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Interesting Times
There's life rendered from happy days engraved in music; sustaining familiar recollections, essential as each breath taken; manifestations surface...
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Above Old Downton Lodge
– nice to so quickly get on top of the world! …
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Ugly Puggly 92
It wasn’t often I was glad to get out and go to an AA meeting—it didn’t matter where it was, I’d have went—but I was glad to get out the house. I...
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Centre of its own Universe
Smol Doodle whimsy
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The '70s Look And The Battle For My Soul
Caution: Contains self-indulgence.
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Winter Stripped Bare
The branches sway On a windy day Among helpless trees The leaves Do a dance of death Like a stripper’s last striptease As they fall to their fate And...
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So long Sweet Cygnet
So long sweet Cygnet You never got to get The chance to kiss Or to hiss At passers by So long sweet Cygnet You never got to get The chance to roam Or...
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Walk With You
Walk With You Where you walk, I walk; Where you go, I go; Whether it’s light or dark, Whether you’re fast or slow. I’ll be in your heart, I’ll be in...
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salt
A pathway forms like the parting of the sea, crystalising woe across your cheek. Written on your face with salt, is everything you feel. Words...
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Kyessing Game
You’ve heard about the nos And you’ve heard about the knows And you’ve heard about the yeses But what about the kyesses? sort of like knowing but...
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Her story
I took a rose from another's garden I twisted it off its stem, careful not to prick myself on its thorn I took it and placed it in a vase, to be a...
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Tom's Swiss Cure
No clues, I'm afraid, except the image. If you do figure it out, you might say to yourself "how dare he?" And I would not argue with that. Image from Wiki commons.
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TRIALS OF AN ANGEL Part 8: A Good Start
It was lucky the “The Big Green” (as our people called it) occurred in June. The summer perfect; a wonderful mixture of warm sun-blessed days and...
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Hunsbury Hill Country Park
A local haven at Fall Hunsbury Hill Country Park Falling leaves drift; autumnal eddies, amber blankets billow in breezes, dragonflies hover over fans...
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Alien Murmuration - Chapter 4 (1989)
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Back to Chapter 3 I don’t mean to upset mum but that doesn’t override the fact that my shirt and tie are strangling me. We’ve arranged with the...
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