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Amanderella and the Mystery of the Disappearing Vicar Chapter 3.
Chapter 3. Lower Wobbleford. Amanderella closed the papers, thoughtful but untroubled. “Very well,” she said. “Leave them with me.” Lady Maudy...
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The Shadow Chapter 4.
Chapter Four. The Garden Party. The morning of the Garden Party began as it should. It was bright, sunny and with the promise of fine weather lasting...
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Marta My Deer
All the things I saw, did, said, celebrated, observed or grumbled about, some of which were in Lithuania though there was nothing to grumble about there, during the final twenty-one days of June.
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Tettegouche
Wasn't it supposed to be bearably cold, wasn't it going to be relaxing; I twist and turn in my sleeping bag, the water in my glacial bottle frozen...
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Woman in Black
The woman in Black appeared in my dream last week.
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Amanderella and the Marduk Affair Chapter 11.
Chapter Eleven. All’s Well. A week later, Amanderella was amused to receive a newspaper cutting from Dotty. YOUNG EXPLORER RESCUED AFTER MINOR MISHAP...
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The Shadow Chapter 3.
Chapter Three. Emma Gets Lost. Once a year, when the Taxes had been paid and the Clerks from the Palace had been and checked that everything was in...
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Consequences
IP, nothing to see here. image created @ canva.com
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Bron-58
Continued from Chapter 57: “This is where we first met, isn’t it?” “Yeah, it is. You were fiddling about with that flower-bed.” “I was not fiddling...
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Six beds of restless men - a poem
I’ve been so long in this hospital bed, my QR code has faded, I cannot sleep at night. Six beds of restless men, the detritus of the state, Try to...
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The Dumplings of Count Tiškevičius
All the things I saw, did, said, wandered around, admired, ate and drank, some of which were in Lithuania, during the first nine days of June.
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Re∆ision (3)
Three-fourteen came and went. Three-eighteen. Three-twenty-one. At three-twenty-three the front door opened and Sadie said, "I'm home." The emphasis...
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Re∆ision (2)
Sunday. Dennis made eggs. She heard him in the kitchen before the alarm — the skillet on the burner, the carton opening, the crack of the shell. She...
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Re∆ision (1)
The shelf brackets had been on the list since October. Dennis had measured the garage wall twice, written the numbers on the back of an envelope, and...
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The waywe heard: " Puppet on a String" 1967
Giuseppe 'Joe' Bertolini's ice cream parlour was at its busiest in April 1967 as a popular hangout for teenagers buying milkshakes, sodas and his...
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Fighting Pirates
Fighting Pirates On days when I wake up in tears, engulfing my low tide, the rock pools of a right old life. I have one last trick. They won’t come...
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The Shadow Chapter 2.
The Shadow Begins Aidan had no memory of his parents. He supposed he must once have had a mother and father, but he could not remember them. He had...
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Amanderella and the Marduk Affair Chapter 10.
Chapter Ten. Home Word travelled faster than the rescue party. By the time they reached the edge of Pentegfawr, a small knot of villagers had...
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Litany for the Remainder
Say it again. Say it again. Say it until the saying wears a groove in the dark, until the groove becomes a road, the road a rut, the rut a grave that...
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