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New Directions (14)

‘Christine, Julian and Margaret worked on this until eleven last night. They wouldn’t go home until they found something.’ Dev stayed calm, but I...
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Now

Nothing happens outside of now. Things that occurred in the past occur (and occurred) only in so far as they are brought into this moment. There is...
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Clehonger to Ruckhall Circular

24/2/24 I do like 3-dimensional walks, with ups and downs (though the ups not too long, but bringing new views throughout the little walk). We hadn’t...
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"Willow's Missing Tail" 13

Perfidia looked at the large tome on Martha’s bookshelf. “This thing is going to follow me around? For how long?” “Until it decides you’re a capable...
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"The Coffee House Spy" 15

Thies and Brent shared a look that telegraphed they were at an impasse with the non-agent, fake, fat guy. Thies narrowed his eyes on the smug captive...
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Conscript

This was a true story (the name has changed). For a twenty year old it was National Service by conscription, the yearly intake chosen by birthdays. (Image courtesy of Wikemedia Commons)
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New Directions (13)

With Dev hanging on to the door handle with one hand and thumping the window with the other I couldn’t drive away without injuring him. Before the...
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Unsaid (A Villanelle-ish)

Unsaid (A Villanelle - ish ) Jennifer Pickup 2 6 .02.2024 I have all these words that remain unsaid , They disappear when I pick up the phone –...
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Poem of the week

Muscle memory

My father never went away he just became a yesterday he told me people swing the bat he wasn't willing to do that his father taught him to be free...
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Story of the week

Land of Make Believe

Being human, what pain, what peril! I can probably count on one and a half hands the times I’ve felt truly happy, at least as an adult, and they...
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The Fish Hawker

I wonder! Did Mary Kelynack's strength come from the briny? For as weary flow of watchful tide fishing boats did arrive, then waves bringing ravenous...
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Catch-me-if-you-can

Painting of Will-o-the-wisp by Herman Hendrich from wiki commons
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whispers.

Everything seemed perfect. It is not. I am strong. To everyone else they think I am. I am in control. Someone all powerful controls me. I had a...
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Weeding

Who decides what enhances? Speed doodle
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Going Sape Shit again

Nowadays, we sapiens are the only humans who walk the earth. We proud of dat. We survived. We got fire working for us. We the top of the chain. That...
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Damp cloth

All cellophaned up in wraparound plastic nothing left of it, just dust and German Shepherds English-speaking watchmen. This weather’s like a damp...
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The moon is all bluish tonight

It is a fierce, hard blow. I close my eyes in fear, my hands hold the steering wheel as if it were a lifebuoy. My breathing is heavy and difficult...
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Like What You See?

As an admirer of M R James I thought I'd try a tale in the same mode - the unacanny and fatal, found in the everyday - for the unwitting victim!
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Parcel for you...part 20

There was a headline, just a small one, alongside the main headline which was about the phasing out of car ownership. In the news sites, on Facebook...
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