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Pad Life 10: Monstrosities
The Dark Shadows are rising. Or maybe I've just broken my glasses. Picture: Pixabay Creative Commons
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Heaven-sent
A (nother) reflection.... Feel free to skip.
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Father Mulrooney Makes a House Call - A Craven Danger Mystery
Lord, get me through the next thirty minutes and I’ll never again rage like a lunatic when I find Sister Helen in my whiskey cabinet. Also, let me...
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72. Domenique
Something does happen. No, really. And you'll get a free earworm again, too. Image Licence: CC-SA 3.0. Photographer: Quist. Source: Wikipedia Commons.
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Break the Child: Chapter Three: The Worst Day of My Life
Chapter Three: Worst Day of My Life I can’t stop crying. I’m not going back to school. I’m not, not ever and they can’t make me. It’s all my mum’s...
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Which Witch Was It?
Wendy was not an ordinary twelve-year-old, in fact she was extraordinary. She knew things, lots of things, more things than most would, or even could...
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Why I Find Such Joy in Her
She is . She is: she exists, And if that doesn’t sound like much, Then you should know that she exists like no other, Carved into the world in such...
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28th April
from a house roof chimneys like trumpet valve keys release a soaring solo seagull's heartbeat into untouched silence beside this pavement wind-lipped...
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English rain
English rain
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Chadpocalypse - 3:10 The Gambler
Need to catch up? Check out the collection here: https://www.abctales.com/collection/chadpocalypse Previous Chapter 3:10 The Gambler Chad had never...
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The Distorted Sky: Part 1
The Distorted Sky: Part 1 My name is not important, I watched it drown years ago. It was swallowed like a breadcrumb by the ravenous waves and sank...
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The Plague Hasn’t Reached Our Parish
Whilst the rest of London was in the midst of the worst outbreak of plague ever, the parish of St Johnsons, although located in the very centre of...
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71. Three Women
Something almost happens! (NB: a miracle: title refers to song less than 10 years old.) Licence: CC BY 2.0; Source: Flicker.com; photographer: RomitaGirl67
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Break the Child: Chapter Two: OMFG!
Chapter Two: OMFG Oh My Flipping God! Oh my flipping God! Oh my flipping God! I am in total and utter discernable shock. I have never wanted to swear...
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70. Do The Stanley
What's this got to do with a Stackridge song? You ask. Nothing, nothing at all. image is from the Van Vechten Collection at the Library of Congress and has no known copyright issues.
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The Pub
It was the sort of pub that you wouldn’t take your wife into. Full of men with flat noses and either a pencil or a cigarette behind their ear. Some...
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Break the Child
Break The Child Katherine Black Beware of the monsters that dwell in the mind. Apologies to anybody who has already read this it's an edit ... and I'...
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69. Oh, Sister Josephine
Because I felt like it. Photograph TheMostInept source Flicker.com Licence CC-BY SA 2.0
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In A World Gone Mad: Monday 27th April 2020: End of Life Partner
Monday: 27 April 2020 I am living with my end of life partner. I hope this statement is true, I believe it to be so. Max loves me, and me him...
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