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Dollhouse

By ivoryfishbone on Fri, 08 Feb 2008

I've made a teeny tiny house for two it's all we need, pin neat. I've made the sweetest little bay, a door with stained glass like you like, I hope you get it, this the sweetest thing

Love

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A Class Act

By edmund allos on Fri, 08 Feb 2008

...serious people...

Humour

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Three Poachers and a Poet in a Sequin Beret

By HaiAnh on Thu, 07 Feb 2008

How do conversations like this start? In five-minutes-for-the-haddock queues? Purgatory waiting rooms? A Midland Mainline delay? So that you can imagine it -

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Watchman

By t.crask on Thu, 07 Feb 2008

First story in the Babel series. Part of the book of short stories currently being written.

Science fiction

Certificate PG

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Ode to Tomorrow [Revised]

By ellydawn on Thu, 07 Feb 2008

Today has a funny taste and it smells queer, too and I keep having to move the aerial and twiddle with the knobs. I think today must have his flies down because yesterday and tomorrow

Journal

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Ash Wednesday blog 2008

By purplehaze on Wed, 06 Feb 2008

There is a certain relief to be had when things go up in smoke, and blow away on the breeze.

Journal

Non-fiction

Have You Ever

By Ssor on Wed, 06 Feb 2008

A footnote to eternity.

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What's in a name?

By purplehaze on Wed, 06 Feb 2008

My name is McSporran. I’m Scottish. And if I had a penny for every person who said to me, on introduction, “That’s a very Scottish name, isn’t it?”, I could buy Scotland.

Humour

Non-fiction

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If it's for me, it's for everyone

By Brooklands on Wed, 06 Feb 2008

Here’s what made me think of death: taking cinder from the stove, balanced on a shovel, shaking the dust over a gravelled car bay, watching it expand from breath to mist: a cape unfurled.

Other Fiction

Certificate PG

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Meeting Celia

By edmund allos on Wed, 06 Feb 2008

...another genre experiment...as mills and boon as you like...

Love

Certificate 15

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Limericks

By rokkitnite on Tue, 05 Feb 2008

A strapping young actor named Harris Suffered mortification in Paris When a rip in his clothes Saw his Hamlet exposed As he stabbed an old man in the arras An Eskimo, quite unconceited,

Certificate 12

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Sex Butler

By on Tue, 05 Feb 2008

Sex Butler Gentlemen, I’ll admit The modern world’s a sordid jip Run by grubby little men who like to gloat Everywhere you turn you’re faced with some gaunt slapper’s gurn

Autobiography

Certificate 18

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Clima - his romance

By littleditty on Tue, 05 Feb 2008

sandstorms come in from Sahara - edit

Romance

Afternoon

By ladylazarus on Tue, 05 Feb 2008

The first thing I've written in quite some time, woven from random thoughts on a rather frustrating afternoon at work and composed in under half an hour. An experiment. Comments are appreciated.