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When Botev Peaked
Oh Mother Bulgaria!
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Happiness Of Anticipating Inspiration
Encounters attained are all different, Thoughts upon this day swiftly alter; Linking to what lies beyond. Flickers ephemeral – never repetitive,...
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Dilute to Taste
December tastes of waiting Of anticipating the glow When resting joys resurface For festive roundello The tree stands decked in borrowed light...
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My Dinosaur Era Chapter 39
it gets towards midday, the sun is still blazing away ginny wants to sit inside for a bit, patrycja takes her away to a bar we can still see them,...
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Vignette: Anticipation Mechanics
The trouble with anticipation is that it always imagines itself as an epic. One minute you’re ambling through your day, and the next you’re Indiana...
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The Provider (Part 2)
She took three days off. Called in sick to Evergreen, quit the Citgo outright, burned through her savings in seventy-two hours to do the thing she...
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The Provider (Part 1)
The first time Keisha noticed something wrong, she was too exhausted to think about it clearly. She'd worked a double at Evergreen Manor—twelve hours...
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My Dinosaur Era Chapter 38
Chapter 38 >>
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The Strange Case of Dr Gunchev and Crazy Ludo
The usual rigmarole. Half a month (this bit being the latter half of November) described using precisely one hundred words per day.
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The Tobacco Barn (Part 2)
The cold hit him like a fist. Clay made it twenty steps from the barn before his hip seized, the pain so sudden and total that he dropped to his...
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"Winter Constitutional"
Ghostly breaths of brumal dew Icy mist of petrichor Barren branches sway and shiver Loosening spikes of icicles To stab the frozen earth Subnivean...
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My Dinosaur Era Chapter 37
jesus, I mean, I knew something was up when you came to the flat that time, I say I’m sorry, I feel awful for keeping it from you and now awful for...
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My Dinosaur Era Chapter 36
we find a small shop, buy two beers this time we go down onto the beach start to walk across the vast sands are you ok to carry on, I say she glugs...
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My Dinosaur Era Chapter 35
we walk down to the beach petula drops in next to me patrycja and ginny up ahead we turn a corner at the end of a street the bay opens up in front of...
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Elevate Joy
Elevate Joy. Let’s increase our happiness? With an abundance of joy. That activates you midstream, your aspect of time. And beyond emotion. This joy...
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The Tobacco Barn (Part 1)
The barn was older than the farmhouse. Older than the county records, if you believed the clerk at the Register of Deeds, who'd searched back to 1847...
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The Quality Circle (Part 2)
Wade found her in the parking lot after second shift, leaning against her driver's side door like he belonged there. The security lights made his...
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The Quality Circle (Part 1)
The rating terminals glowed in the break room like confession booths, blue-white screens waiting for judgment. Marlene Vickers had passed them a...
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My Dinosaur Era Chapter 34
the van is spotless, like it has just come from the showroom ginny, no smoking in here, ok, says patrycja she’s sat in the driver’s seat, checking us...
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