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Admissions Impossible

A few lines scribbled to occupy the time between going to bed last night and getting up this morning.
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Borealis

This is a poem posted this week at a weekly challenge on X/Twitter by the account @TopTweetTuesday. Whilst your first love should always be ABCTales...
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Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (5)

Part 4 at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/prophesy-immortal-witch-4 Billy pondered the day ahead. He knew a trip would come down to one of...
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Discovered old postcards

My sister found a pile of postcards – some to me, some unposted by me, over sixty years old. Many memories, some mysterious (who was that friend?) … - birthday greeting from over 60 years ago…
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Poem of the week

Our Old Girl… Remembering Coral

I knew Coral (seashore) for only the final two of her eighty-six years. Around our love and sadness for her late daughter Julia (Overthetop1), who herself had been a dear friend forty years before, we formed an incredible bond in that short time. She once described herself as an old crock. To me she was an old crock of gold.
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School friends

I was never much for friends. In primary school I was a loner, though I didn’t have the word for it then. My younger brother was the one with a...
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"Art of Trouble" 4

Jade finished her coffee and croissant sandwich of ham and cheese as she scrolled through information on her phone regarding the artist, Casper...
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Xion Island Zero ... The Final Chapter.

The sky above Lake Windermere was an impossible blue, a colour that was too beautiful for grief. But grief and joy twisted around each other as the...
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Xion Island Zero: Chapter 46

Kelvin crouched beside Nash. ‘He’s in good hands, Si. They’ll help him.’ Nash shook his head. He’d seen enough to understand what was happening. The...
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Story of the week

Worst Case Scenario - Being Peter To Save Paul (Part Two)

His world was falling apart. Everything he knew to be true, everything he believed in and was certain of, was a lie. What was the world coming to,...
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Do angels deserve to die?

It's when no one's watching me. Then I see my opportunity. How many times have I been on the verge of doing this? How often have I replayed this...
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Xion Island Zero: chapter 45

As they finished their meal, a bread roll sailed across the restaurant. It landed against Nash’s chair. The boy and Toby, who was probably his...
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Xion Island Zero: Chapter 44

The team waited for Nash to be released from the hospital before having their end-of-case celebration. They agreed that, while he was a grumpy git,...
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Above, in 10 minutes!

Walk five minutes past the houses, over the road and past the mown hayfield, up the hill, past the view of Titterstone Clee hill northwards of the...
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The Patrolman - 35

Williams Ranch was bigger than Lacey expected.
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The Vale - Chapter 5

It was so much colder back then, nothing like the soft, Southern air which I find myself gliding through so easily these days. I remember frequent...
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Conscience

This war, with allies unified (reminds of German genocide), leaves mandates, empty, purified, (as human flesh is nullified), enticing persons (pale,...
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Untitled Condom Play

(Messy bedroom of a young man who lives alone. Full size bed. Laundry on the floor. Night table. Female nurse scrubs are folded atop them.) (At rise...
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