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Certificate 15

Tribute to Bee

By Deliberately Evolving on Sun, 17 Jun 2018

2 years since Bee passed. Here is a tribute to one of her poems with her beautiful granddaughter Mia.

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Choose One Cake Only

By drew4payne on Sat, 16 Jun 2018

We were having a family picnic, that Saturday afternoon, but mum always wanted to stay close to home, so we were having it in our garden. She had...

Drama

Certificate 12

Lurranus Stories: The Unknown

By Trans4mer on Sat, 16 Jun 2018

2119 The view was breathtaking. Looking out, Craig Donnely could see thousands of stars. Each and everyone one, a distant world. Thousands of...

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Where I Belong

By Dogstails on Sat, 16 Jun 2018

..I am the sea. I would live and die here (With grace, as our ancestors did) If I could outswim the spike Embedded in my side..

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The Princess of Odd Numbers

By london_calling79 on Sat, 16 Jun 2018

It’s getting dark. The cypresses, slender, respectful genuflect to the sunset, a horse’s eye in all its majesty. In their junctures, iced from winter...

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One hundred years

By Parson Thru on Sat, 16 Jun 2018

When time means nothing

Miscellaneous

Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)

Certificate 18

Cowboys

By rosaliekempthorne on Sat, 16 Jun 2018

The musical inspiration for this one was My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys . Perhaps with also a little bit of The Games that Daddies Play. She sat...

Certificate PG

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Vamos España

By Parson Thru on Thu, 14 Jun 2018

Evening. There’s heat in the sun as it banks across the square. They said it wouldn’t be long. Things all fall into place. No row of bells or...

Travel

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This Beeston Morning

By ralph on Thu, 14 Jun 2018

One magpie, Beeston's little park just outside work. I remember the rhyme and I’ll take its sorrow with a cigarette. The memory of this morning’s...

Biography

Mirror World

By PoetonaHill on Wed, 13 Jun 2018

Personal...

Autobiography

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The Devil's Surgeon Part 6

By Scorpio88 on Wed, 13 Jun 2018

The Apothecary dictates his terms and decides to keep an enemy where he can see him. Image free from pixaby.com

Historical Fiction

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The Devil's Surgeon Part 5

By Scorpio88 on Wed, 13 Jun 2018

The Apothecary is shocked to see how the disease is taking a firm hold of the town... Image free from pixaby.com

Historical Fiction

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Barbury Castle

By skinner_jennifer on Wed, 13 Jun 2018

Tuesday 12 th June 2018. Silence lasting No schedules, Submissive To wild Gathering Of sheep, Where Mice in Meadows Of green Hideaway From Kestrel...

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Dictated access

By justahuman on Tue, 12 Jun 2018

Picture the scene.. people, traffic, lives... whizzing past my eyes leaving behind light streams.. as they travel at light speed.. like a sped up...

Surreal

Certificate 15

The Queen of Spades

By rosaliekempthorne on Mon, 11 Jun 2018

The Queen of Spades was nothing like the Queen of Diamonds. She was her opposite in every way; she was base metals and ash-infused dirt, she was the...

Miscellaneous