Cherrypicked stories
Mirror, Mirror
I was 54 when my eardrum burst. I'd had a cold and my ear began to ache on the way to work and then in the middle of a mid-morning meeting I heard a...
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Rain third position
Rain. I love the near silent sound of rain, Its delicate intricacy secretly overwhelms. Though it never tickles, as it tenderly trickles, forever...
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Other Non Fiction - We Did It Ourselves! (Women's Story from the Dawn of Time to Today)

When bold Lilith * near Adam lay He tried to force her down that way And she put up resistance.. Her backlash came of rage and fear And she's the...
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Collateral damage
Letter to Danny - notes
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Radiation from a Dead Star

2016... All things (including us) must pass, some leave traces behind...
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widdershins

You probably remember that story of the Virgin Mary turning up unexpectedly at her pal’s house, as she’s prone to do, and blurting out: ‘hi, you’re...
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The Waiting Room
He spread the food out over the duvet trying to make up for it. I remember the smell of acrid vinegar from the jar of crinkle sliced beetroot that he...
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Alter Ego
I blame him. Why didn't he see? Surely there were enough clues. At first, in the beginning, we were so close. Soul mates! What a ridiculous...
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The History Of The World (Ch.13b)
Janus comes to a 'dead end' in his attempts to influence people through the Vidbase computer network, finding his histories are not being noticed by many, and his efforts seem quite pointless. Alternative Futuristic World.
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BIG JOHN.

“You...are…having…a…fucking…laugh.” That’s how Big John started every sentence. He would wait for you to speak then with a roar that only Brian...
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November

The clocks turn back, soon dusk will start at four And guttered pumpkins bulk the wheelie bins. Geese fly from Canada on exhausted wings And summer...
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The old Heifer and the Two old Bulls at Peace

‘It’s not age, it’s what comes with it’ The time to cook and to eat well and talk. I have breathed in Pete’s garden His hardy geraniums and forty-...
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Paint It, Red (Part II of II) REVISED.
4 ♯ It's not easy facing up when your whole world is black. ♯ -- -- sat upright in his seat and filled the rear-door compartment of his ’62 Lincoln...
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The Disco

At school today Sarah told me my eyebrows were in a shocking state. I didn’t know what to say. She and a few of the girls smirked and smiled at my...
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November
November you’re the darkest shade Of nothing but a death parade Delight you do in grim decay Cruel winds to blow it all away Make ashes of our summer...
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CC 70: Serpents, Ultimately

Cuchullain's Castle 70
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Downpour(II:7) Leaving the City
7. Leaving the City After visiting a healer, and a magician that was very good at restoring teeth, Nick almost felt like he had never been in the...
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Martians

I don't know what I'm going to do about my husband Jack I got up this morning and went outside and he was on the porch in a chair with a semi-...
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Theresa
Naked. Cold. Rotten. It’s how we all end up. No dignity, no shame, because really - who cares? Once it’s all over, when all the air leaves us, when...
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A Thanksgiving Muse with Audio

I got the urge to do a recitition. So I did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPUADNE0S1Y The annual hug fest is coming upon us though, it's more like...
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