Cherrypicked stories
Ugly Puggly 51
I felt on the other side of chaos. It was in my head and bones. And I couldn’t catch a breath. Tears gather at the back of my eyes. I heard myself...
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S T Vasectomy Clinic - 18
Bizarrely he was back at The Driffold in what seemed like a fraction of the time it had taken on the outward journey to the paddock. He wiped the...
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The Picture Ranch 62
What is going on? That makes Fisher, you and me who don't know... Licence CC-SA 3.0 Photographer Lars-Göran Lindgren, Sweden
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The Miracle of Maldon (Part Two of Three)
Part One at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/miracle-maldon-part-one-three The Miracle of Maldon (Part Two of Three) Mr King jiggled a key...
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Going on a Way-hunt!
“ Can’t go under it, can’t go through it, we’ll have to go over it … or variations!”*
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Ugly Puggly 50
I heard the playboy’s phone ringing. I was tempted to answer before the answering machine kicked in. Put on one of those female robot voices (perhaps...
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The Picture Ranch 61
Short and sour, like a bad cocktail.
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Ugly Puggly 49
Cold outside with a hint of rain. Smirry. Our conversations usually involved the weather, even though most folk now worked inside. Dave was at my...
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Ebreon
They always drowned the men. That’s what she was always told. They looked into their eyes and then they swept them down into the depths, they mated...
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Goldenrod and Wild Aster
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Chemo
Of all the treatments associated with cancer, I have been most apprehensive about having chemo. You seldom hear people say that it was a good...
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The Miracle of Maldon (Part One of Three)
Draft for a 3-part story. The Miracle of Maldon (Part One of Three) The moon hung low in a blue sky, an intruder on a twilight horizon. The day was...
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Ugly Puggly 48
I went outside to have a gander at where we’d buried the body. The grass around the decking was overlong, more like weeds. A chestnut tree on the...
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Boxing Clever?
Josiah surveys the competition whilst Archibald edges forward.
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Let me share your tears
don't shut me out i am here won't you open up inside and let me see the real you don't be scared i am here i am not going anywhere i am here will you...
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Harvest Mouse
Within fields of wheat, corn and barley; there's hushed efficiency, seeds shall be gathered and consumed; sometimes emerging in daytime's summer heat...
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On Oddicombe Beach
The furnicular glides you down into the blue busom of the sea, delivers you almost into the changed lap of the now green waiting wave. A quiet...
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Ugly Puggly 47
Things were going better than I hoped. I’d gone to the shop and got a Daily Record and rolls. The shopkeeper was waiting for me, edging forward to...
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Snow White
Audio version at: https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/snow-white-mp3 Snow White Fiery, phosphorous sun arced lower, day summoning the arrival of...
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Time Crystals
Recipe: Ingredients 1 x Magazine article with click-baity title 1 x Completely unrelated memory 1 x obligatory Schroedinger's Cat Reference Method Free write. Break up the lines, arrange them on paper or screen in as allegorical a scheme of shapes as possible. Half-bake only on Regulo 3 and a quarter until it starts to smell bad. Image created by author from PD elements at canva.com
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