Cherrypicked stories
October 1st, 2020
It's National Poetry Day, after all. Licence CC BY 2.0: photograph of the Calder Hebble Navigation by Tim Green on flicker.com
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Today and Tomorrow
My leaves shuffle life and broad branches shelter shadows- the forest a domain. Eagles patrol as updrafts send them soaring wings trembling in their...
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The wind's indifference
Page intentionally neo-Romantic
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Bro Ken
Bro ken this space must fall unto silence again, a simple truth, because there are no words to frame such pain, no sentiments, that here, can long...
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Adopt a Tiger (6)
Susan counted ten tigers in the room, not including her own. There were all in cages, fortunately. The man in front of the nearest cage walked over...
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To boldly go
How does a mortal explore the universe? This is the problem every civilisation has when it looks up at the stars and contemplates exploring them. The...
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Deus Ex Machina
A conclusion ought to be logical, make sense of a narrative; there is no lowered god to resolve an end for me. I should have been born in Ancient...
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Everyone's going to the opticians
My optician was called Ross and he was excellent. They are open until 7.30 now, and that seems late for an optician to be finishing their shift. I'd...
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Adopt a Tiger (5)
The next morning Susan phoned cousin Peter to ask if she could borrow his van to take Terrence the tiger to his TV audition that afternoon, but Pete...
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A Woman of the Swamp - 2
Previous Chapter 2. Little Shop of Voodoo Time passed slow in the fetid heat. There were no sirens, and no alarms. Marie reached back through the...
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A prompt is a cue
Sometimes if I hear an aeroplane I book a holiday. If I hear an ambulance I cancel my next day's plans. You know those few seconds before someone...
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Something You'll Have To Live With (3)
Part 3
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Something You'll Have To Live With (2)
Part 2
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Timeless
Listen to the wind when it chases through cities and open land with unheard messages wander unhindered, let your hair flutter like the migrating...
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Covid 19 Diaries- School Run
22/September/2020 Today is the official day of my work? Or was it last Friday or the Tuesday before? I will prepare a lesson for a year 10 student...
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Sugar and Spice
...and all things nice.
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about a motorway
about a motorway wh o tarmacked the carters’ track wh ere mummers danced with acrobats and pilgrims singing praises, telling stories, making babies,...
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Descend
A t first , I was only half, the other half as in a mirror’s reflection , which always remains inside a groping, a secret, Yes, once I was half...
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"The Other Half is a B-Movie Screenplay" [Mister Martínez Part 32]
And the whole of this is... Image source needpix.com : image creator Lernestorod (pixabay.com) CC.2.0
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