Cherrypicked stories
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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Alien Murmuration - Chapter 3 (1988)
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Back to Chapter 2 Dad got angry with me! I don’t really blame him. My brain exploded. The lights, the music and all of the records. All those insane...
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part 15
It was like a monster Mary couldn't see, wanting to rip her to bits like tissue paper, and squash her all at the same time. It screamed in her ears...
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Ugly Puggly 91
I slept for a few hours, haunted by the ghost of Bradley Walsh, or I might just have left the telly on. But I gave up and got up about six. Molly was...
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Genealogy for Beginners
Image by Agata from Pixabay
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"Halloween or Samhain"
Candles burning Dripping wax Jack-o'-lanterns Filled with snacks Darkened pathways Ghostly moon Trick-or-Treaters Coming soon Witches cackle Owls...
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Ugly Puggly 90
Molly didn’t get up and say she was an alcoholic. She seemed content just to blend in and listen. She was no longer an AA virgin. I remembered the...
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Walk in my shoes
i wish you could take a moment to walk in my shoes and then your understand me you think I'm ok but I'm not you don't see what I see what going on...
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Musical Chairs
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The Storyteller And The Time Travellers
The Storyteller And The Time Travellers by Paul McCann He awoke with the sound of birds chirping outside the window of the cottage where he was...
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Victoria Mills, West Vale, Elland
It's a real place. Part of It's where they shoot that daytime TV programme with Nigel Havers and the antique experts. Image - author's own.
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tree time
cold admonishment as rain, taps a clean patina of advice - with foreign fluency, saps defiant thought, both truth and lies this, here, is all -...
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Ugly Puggly 89
Wee Jim turned up earlier than I liked. But I shouldn’t have been surprised. He was always early. Molly made him a cup of tea while I got ready. I...
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Hell Puppets
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Ian- the aftermath
Hurricane Ian - the aftermath As we made our way southward, we could see various signs of Ian’s passage. In the low country of the Carolinas,...
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