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you cry, you die. chapter 2
He flagged down another tuk-tuk and went back to his hotel. He paid the driver, didn't wait for the change, and stepped back out into the streets of...
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Incredible India - Part 4
The final part of the story of my Indian adventure
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Incredible India - Part 3
More highlights of my Indian Adventure - the last part (4) follows
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Rain
Image by nini kvaratskhelia from Pixabayabay
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Looking up
The sky is a canvas, cloud scenes float by …
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Amanderella and the Mystery of the Silent Statue.Chapter 6.
Chapter Six. Back inside. They stepped back into the hall, the door closing behind them with its usual, faintly smug click. Sir Cottam glanced around...
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Spellbound Chapter 2.
Chapter Two. A Royal Summons. They had not gone very far before they were met by a party of Foresters. These men were responsible for keeping the...
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Incredible India - Part 2
The second part of the autobigraphical account of my trip to India in the late 1960s. Part 3 will follow later...
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I Have Other Books
Not much to see here, do carry on. Image author's own.
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Incredible India - Part 1
The first part of an autobiographical account of an Indian experience in the late 1960s and early 1970s
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The Moment You Step Outside
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A literary fiction short story. Our narrator has a terrible secret.
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A Letter To ABC Tales Friends
Dear friends, I'm really sorry I've not been around lately. I'm trying hard to be strong and resilient during my chemotherapy, but it does get really...
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Spellbound Chapter 1.
Chapter One. Decision Time. Calizone sat by the fire in her cottage in the Dark Forest, feeling her age. She had been the Witch of the Dark Forest...
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Amanderella and the Mystery of the Silent Statue.Chapter 5.
Chapter Five. More Mysteries. “Once upon a time, the front door would have been opened by a housekeeper, or a butler. But Werlyn dismissed them all...
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you cry, you die. chapter 1
23 April 2001 The phone didn't ring. It hummed a low, subterranean vibration against the faux-wood of the hazel-rimmed bedside table precisely at 03:...
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What If Challenge - They're Here For the Chickens
Firstly, 'what if' is a game I have recently started playing with my kids to get their imaginations going by starting with one random question and...
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St Leonards to Bexhill-on-Sea
The train was packed with day-trippers. Through a gap in the seats I spied a young woman with an alarmingly contoured face; its soft planes a...
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Problems with time. Chapter 11.
Calizone stepped towards the passage. The man held up a hand to stop her. “No,” he said, his voice shifting from thin and papery to deep and young,...
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Amanderella and the Mystery of the Silent Statue.Chapter 4.
Chapter Four. Inside. Amanderella stepped back into the vestibule. The space was small, barely ten feet deep, with just enough room for a visitor to...
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Fruit Cocktail
im age by David from Pixabay.
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