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Promises Beyond The Veil Of Life ( PT 42 )
Picture by pixabay free images. Part Forty Two Through parallel universes ethereal, dazzling white lights shimmer, an energy of worlds within worlds...
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A Man of the Mountain - The Local Eye
Want to catch up? The collection with previous chapters is here: https://www.abctales.com/collection/man-mountain-2018 3. The Local Eye From behind...
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Winterkill (Part Two)
Concluding part
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Winterkill (Part One)
Five men meet up in Abe Yance's trailer one winter night to drink and play cards. But they soon discover they're not alone... (An old story of mine that I've rejigged a bit. Still not sure if it's quite right.) 3,000 words in total - 2 parts
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Promises Beyond The Veil Of Light ( PT 40 )
Picture by pixabay free images. Part Forty The journey back home from Cornwall had been quiet for Mina and her dad. Kendrick had let her stay up very...
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Again
So, here I am. Standing in this familiar hallway with a suitcase in each hand, wondering if I should be here at all. Turn around and leave again? I...
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Inner Child
To my younger innocent self.
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Put Away Summer
Put away summer Cast a veil upon the sun Know tiredness, sleep away. Wind-withered leaves cannot Hold on as birds no longer Aim the candor of their...
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A Martian in the Closet
The response to my earlier post - 'Gift: A Son's Story' - about growing up with undiagnosed autism has prompted me to post this. I started to write a...
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The Wisdom Problem
I woke early one morning to make Wise Alun his breakfast tea. I quickly dressed and rushed over to his house, where I began preparations for the tea...
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This Is Love
not about much... picture is free for non-commercial use. source Flicker.com
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The Wisdom of the Ages: 100-word story
THE WISDOM OF THE AGES The old man sat on the beach with his grandson. 'Once,' he said. 'my life seemed as vast as that ocean.' The boy considered...
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Entangled Objects
She objects to the object of the exercise. The object of the exercise is to move the object objected to from the objectionable place to another space...
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Gift: A Son's Story (excerpt)
In May 2015, at the age of 56 - and after a lifetime of inexplicable challenges - I was finally diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (Asperger's...
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Parallax
On the morning train the news isn’t good – though everyone’s reading it in their own preferred version: the Mail ’s the Guardian ’s the FT ’s the...
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Promises Beyond The Veil Of Light ( PT 39 )
Picture by pixabay free images. Par Thirty Nine. Continuing Mina's account of her time in Tintagel. It was now the end of the first week of January,...
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Promises Beyond The Veil Of Light ( PT 38 )
Picture by pixabay free images. Part Thirty Eight Mina's account of her time in Tintagel. The Solstice had gone off really well. The three brothers...
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Life In Ties
I stare at the back of the wardrobe door and admire my DIY skills. Two cup hooks, twenty inches apart and joined together with taut string. Hanging...
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Mum's Orange Comb
I spent the last 7 months of her life caring full-time for my mother. Afterwards, I wrote a book about the whole experience. At 140k words, it's the...
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Rolling in the Aisles
I was on the early shift at the supermarket. 5 am start, through to midday. I hated the early shift. I hated all the shifts. But what could you do?...
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Work is the Curse of the Drinking Classes...
Sure, I've had a few jobs. Too many to count. Some I got fired from, some I left. Some I didn't even start. I get bored easily, anyway. It never pays...
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A Man of the Mountain - The News
Chapter 1: https://www.abctales.com/story/macashton/man-mountain-routine 2 - The News The hike back to the cabin was always harder and made worse by...
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Autumn Leaves Must Fall
Watch tremble of Autumn leaves a carnival of colour, feeding, nourishing; a rich buffet replenishing roots, wind takes the blessings of the tree,...
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The Fall
The Fall By Paul McCann The sound of her fall kissed the ground where she lay and her teardrops fell as the snowflakes fell but no one heard at all I...
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Dream
She will shiver as she steps out of the sea. You will wait as she carefully tip-toes across the smooth stone shore, then arms wide open, you will...
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A Man of the Mountain - Routine
1. Routine The snow had just begun to fall when Jonas opened the tired, wooden door of his cabin and stepped outside, the warmth at his back...
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The Reclining Years
My wife and I are big fans of shows about other people doing productive things. Cooking, vacationing, home improvement, etc. If they had a show about...
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Adam In His Garden
The sound of high octane blades/filching daisy heads...
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Heron Haunting
Mist on water always makes me feel pursued. Crossing Iffley Meadows during a chill sunset, I never stop glancing toward the river, where silvery...
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blackberries
prussian purple sprays, each sweet-swollen round of rounds bursts with crimson juice, stalk-thrust out as if reaching to fill Autumn's hungry gaze or...
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Unknown Girl
A true story...
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Manhatten
Come to me October, With your dawn mists and low, heavy boughs. I will thrill to your chill. I will sing at your silence. And when November's icy...
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Not Tonight, Josephine
Included in the anthology "Voices from the Web - 2017/18".
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Promises Beyond The Veil Of Light ( PT 34 )
Picture by pixabay free images. Part Thirty Four Mina fell to her knees horrified to find Kate curled up on the floor frothing at the mouth, her body...
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The Hermit
Peace and tranquillity.
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In the kitchen again
I would start cooking again for you Re-label the spices, re-read the books Use every single pan From every single hook I’d start setting alarms again...
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At sea with you
I want it to happen again I want to wade right out Into the middle of your life No raft, no float, no arm bands
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The Music Problem
I was woken early one morning by a hammering on my back door. I quickly dressed and rushed downstairs to find Alun in an excited mood. "It's my...
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Tangerine static
Butterfly kisses of frost
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