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Abaddon - Chapter 25
4: In The Lists The crowd roared, and bayed for Percival's pasty white flesh. He wondered how many of them were actually human.
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Abaddon - Chapter 24
3: The Obedient Servants of His Lordship
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Beware of the Ides of March (part 2 of 10)
‘There is a strange man outside the door’
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Scents
I breathe in the smell Of clean laundry still Being washed. Its scent Reminding me of the Good Old Days, when Grandma would Cook dinner on Saturday afternoon And let us sit on the bench
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Here kitty, kitty
I found it on the way home from school. I almost walked past but a fluttering caught my eye and what I had first assumed was a discarded sock at the side of the road was, in fact, a tiny kitten.
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The Piggledy-Poo
Have you ever heard of the Piggledy-Poo?
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The Mercy on Silver Street
I remember the exact moment that you and I fell in love. The Italians have a word or saying for it, something about a thunderbolt.
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Abaddon - Chapter 23
2: An Audience With The Management
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Abaddon - Chapter 22
1: Beachcombing He was cold and wet, and somebody was tugging off his clothes. Also, he was inhaling water.
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Abaddon - Chapter 21
Day Thirteen The Smoke has me now. It has probably had me for a long time.
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Is This Yours? (Nine)
Not at first though.
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Othello (Inspiration Point)
Another tanka - a structure which includes a haiku followed by a couplet with seven syllables in each line.
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The bell beneath the water
Children Radio Prize Entry
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Abaddon - Chapter 20
Day Twelve
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Abaddon - Chapter 19
Day Eleven "Quam diu hortatus es", said Percival to the dark, forgetting to talk to it in English. "You are getting more difficult to sneak up on", said the dark back.
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The twins
They are not Roy Chubby Brown, not Jim Davidson, not Victoria Wood: they don’t travel around the country from palledium to hippodrome alone.
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