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Hansel and Gretel - An Update
An updated fairy tale.
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St Berchan's Wood
Once he lived within a wattle cell, this streamside priest who pressed his hermit's brow to prophesy. I see (as he foretold) the sea unfold mysteries...
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- 1586 reads
Lust Loses All
A goose a golden egg had laid, and so the farmer’s bills were paid and every day he’d gold to trade, but then for greed, the goose he slayed – of...
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Woodland Lullaby
Hush a bye, my rowan red, darling dear one in your bed. Hold the branches high and low and do not mind the world below. Your daddy's dying on the lea...
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Flying Saucer (iv) Another day on the island
I spent a wondrous day combining short bouts of frantic exertion followed by lazing in recovery position. By the evening the Lass had worked her way...
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W_W
Some times there is a flicker in the passing pages of years, a golden sparkle and bright colour reaches out from the black and white makes a reader...
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The Chair
I like that empty chair placed square, so it looks me in the eye. I see dust recognises the places I never visit anymore should I worry – should I...
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Cacophony On Holiday
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Cacophony On Holiday Grandchildren all with Ipads, Adults with mobile phones or Ipads, All going at once. Kids’ TV, nursery rhymes, Wrestlemania, You...
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Elegy
To the memory of all the fellow writers who have left us.
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Thoughts from a cluttered space
For a friend
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Our golden, fiery ball
Boldly arcing across the blue, rivers a-glitter, sparkle anew, colours awakened, vivid the scene (– moonlight just paints with a silver sheen), rays...
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Sultry Days And Nights
In coolness Of night I sit alone With eyes Shut tight, Imagine Submerging In pool of Sparkling Cool water, Palms cup Each clear, Sun drenched...
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- 2455 reads
Extremadura
Home to Pizarro, Cortéz, Carlos and Javier
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The witch, the bear, the brute and the bullied
Following graduation Hermione feels the need to reconnect with the Muggle world for a short while. Being widely, and constantly, recognised as the...
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Big Man (Part 2)
He started by asking a lady who ‘Linda’ was. Her mother, came the answer. And why was it that Linda’s presence was causing him to feel a harshness in...
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Big Man (Part 1)
There was the low murmur of a hundred conversations as we entered the half-lit theatre. For a while we stumbled about like blind people, long enough...
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- 457 reads
Summer Storm
SUMMER STORM I love the moments just before a summer storm. You know the kind - your weather app's been showing little lightning bolts all day but...
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The Blue Box
It stood there at the junction of two roads, at the entrance to my Grandmother’s street. It was a tall, oblong, Royal Blue coloured wooden box, which...
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Flying Saucer (iii) The Lass
I walked round the island to get my bearings. It was about two miles in circumference. Apart from one house, which was obviously where the Lass lived...
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Single track Heaven
Going north in single track heaven, a black line through the Highland Line, was what we did each summer. Dad banged the horn to blow away the crows...
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Yggdrasil
Once upon a time there was a prince Or was it a dragon? I don’t remember. This is what happens when you find yourself in the wrong story.
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Poirot meets Miss Marple, Lord Caterham and his daughter, Bundle
Poirot met Miss Marple in the little shop for tea. ‘Mon ami, Oh, I am distressed at these recent movies on TV supposedly of me! They change my...
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HERE I SIT
in the living room of my deceptions TV an instrument of choice in different zones of human emotions— should I watch an old Western or reality issues...
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In Character
A succesful actor is confronted by the downside of fame in a supermarket aisle
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The Maiden and the Maze
She watches over her garden from above. From the window of an impressive, twisted tower, one that is made out of marble, roofed in slate, its window...
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The Girl in the Photo
She’s just a girl in a photo We hold the corner and her gaze And whisper, ‘Don’t look down.’ There’s frailty hidden in the frame Cracks opened in our...
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Holt: The Andalan Affair Chapter one (wip)
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Cairo 1956 A mosquito hovered lazily, moving in ever tighter decreasing circles, its drone nothing but a whisper. Sebastian Holt was awake and lay...
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Dust Never Settles
Soft and cool, my young legs stretched and toes splayed in a JC Penney palace beside you in the old bed. The blue room, where four decades later you...
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Seeds of Elder Days
She sows seeds of the past. She sows memories. Her life is a quiet one. She made it that way on purpose. So that she could think, so that she could...
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Monster
We know a monster when we see one. Picture: Pixabay Creative Commons
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The King of Italy
Leave a coin or just pass by Image source www.bankstone.co.uk No known copyright issues.
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Untitled
Both day and night he bore the sight Of a wife trapped in her bed; He'd never tell her rancid smell Upon his stomach fed. He never heard each...
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Angelo’s cows
A country excursion - sorry, couldn't wait until tomorrow
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Lost in a space
More overblown nonsense
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WE WALK IN SHADOWS
that swell with sunset passing as seasons stack one above another-- celestial images scudding by passing summers and always cars whistling along at...
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I Called Z Passably Pretty
And she was unhappy about it. I am either pretty, or beautiful, your choice. But you've always called me the latter, And so with you, in the sanctity...
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A Period of Quarantine (after Stevie Smith)
I’m radio active. It’s for my thyroid, you see. They say it’ll work wonders. That those things will disappear. The sweats, palpitations. The madness...
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Distance
Thoughts on changing times
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The five doorways
Three tales …
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- 2853 reads