Cherrypicked stories
Afternoon Delight
Dear diary...it's Sunday afternoon, 14 th August 2022, and the temperature keeps on rising. Sitting in my garden den, thinking of the wild green man...
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Pretending to Believe
I didn't even know people did this on-line. Image is author's own fault.
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The Wayward Noodle 4
“I didn’t say that quickly! Are you okay?” “I don’t mind telling you, I’m feeling pretty al dente right now.” Noodle lay, gathering what was left of...
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The Wayward Noodle 3
Soon, Noodle was back at ‘Mon Plume’. It was completely closed. He came to a two-point landing on a ceiling fan over the restaurant floor, which he...
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An Original Obsession
Undercurrents ensure the power of waves by scouring beneath for anything which may impede Northumberland Strait’s drive and bouncing crests are...
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Rites of Passage
Rites of Passage The chilly winds swept over the Lake Erie ice. The mist and damp, of an overnight cloudburst, lingered and added to the feeling of...
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The Wayward Noodle 2
In Cincinnati, a woman sat at an old switchboard. She had fifty years in with Ma Bell as a payphone operator. It was one of the more stressful jobs...
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The Wayward Noodle 1
Noodle lived inside a box with a thousand other macaronis, in the name-brand pasta section of a Gem Supermarket. But, he was no non-count noodle. He...
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Bless Me Father
In the confessional.
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Chemo 5
I had an email from my brother-in-law today. It was headed “Sympathy”. It rather startled me because he is a cancer epidemiologist and statistician...
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The Book of Love
Did you write it? I don't believe in him upstairs either. Whatever the book says. Image created at canva from pd elements.
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The Gift
The Gift (14.08.2022) Here, hold out your hands, I have a gift for you that slips like sand. Quick, don’t take a breath, you’ll let it fall and make...
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Charmed (Part Two of Two)
Audio version at: https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/charmed-part-two Part one at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/charmed-part-one-two...
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At this time
mid-season doodle
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Ulf and Sven and Eurovision Song Contest
Sven: ( offstage ) "Ulf. Ulf." (enter Sven) Sven: "Turn the TV on Ulf, it's the Eurovision Song Contest." Ulf: "Surely you don't want to watch that...
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Something Stupid
I've been going through some older stuff and came across one I never used. Thought I'd put it out there. *** Something Stupid Betty flipped the...
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The Tip of a Fur Coated Iceberg
Four thousand Beagles set free from a Virginia company breeding then for medical research (Pic of my Beagle as a pup)
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Onset
Onset Coiled within verges of back-roads in the petulant August tarmac heat hiss England’s ancient snakes. Waiting for their prey, boiling up the...
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"The Coffee House Spy" 4
Emily poured more wine into her glass and stared at the man casually lounging in her home eating pizza. She didn’t know a thing about him and she...
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The Witch’s Daughter
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