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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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No Hand to Hold.
...walking as fast as I could, no collar on my coat, no hood, no hand to hold on to, little face patched blue, teeth chatter...flamenco fairies feet...
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I don't really like Hardy's Legacy
We didn't have the same taste in wine. I wasn't keen on Hardys, didn't like it, I tried it - too spicy and I didn't think it tasted chocolatey. Same...
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The Returned
A photograph. It could be anyone. One of hundreds involved in a 'War to end all wars'. Much cracked and faded now, like the memories. He stares...
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Paint It, Red (Part II of II)
4 The tires of the black ’62 Lincoln Continental dug in and spat out the gravel with frustration. It drew alongside the flight of steps leading into...
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In the Night
Who knows how, in the night, while Super Moon strains, chalk-carpeted deep in weeping autumn mists: might a million golden butterflies voiceless...
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Ladenbox
I might have left it too late for the kenning I.P. and not sure I've got it right anyway as I think they should be more literal. But I was so taken up with the kenning idea that I thought I'd give it a go. Thanks for the idea and hope the I.P. keeps going.
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The Food Bank
The Food bank He helped every Tuesday with the food bank, my father that is. Long after he had quit most things, he would pull on a bright red shirt...
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The Takeover.
It was Steve Wilson’s first day with the Flowfast Corporation. His small, but successful company Watershoot ,had been taken over by the American...
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A Woman's Story at a Winter's Fire (2/2)
‘I want to tell those stories too.’ Kelpie drew a deep breath. She came closer to the fire, spread out her hands before it, embracing the warmth, her...
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A Woman's Story at a Winter's Fire (1/2)
The sea was great in its surging, but not so great yet. Old Mother stood at the head of what would one day be called Harray Loch in the Orkney Isles...
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Downpour(II:5) The Fighting Pits
5. The Fighting Pits As they approached the center of the city, Nick began to hear chanting. It was difficult to make out, but to him it sounded like...
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Paint It, Red (Part I of II)
1 An hour later I was back in my cell, sweating again, plotting my own death. I missed my wife Katharine terribly. But, above all things circulating...
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Echo's
An empty house with no picture frames The echo's vibrating off the clean walls Feet remains invisible yet still carries through the open doors Still...
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CC 68: The Health of the Salmon
Cuchullain's Castle 68
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Just a Shout Away
Why what Germany does will matter, and why it might not be good... For my own part, I do not accept that sexual assaults on a minority of women are an acceptable consequence of immigration. I am aware that some of the Cologne assaults were committed by 2nd generation citizens. Note, I do not advocate restriction of movement. I would advocate the prosecution to the fullest extent of perpetrators of this kind of crime whatever their circumstances. Whose side do you take? Do you understand the woman in this story?
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