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Cold Feet in Germany
A long cold journey early in the year
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Slava Ukraini!
Slava Ukraini! A short break in the nightly bombardment – peace of sorts. A woman searches in the only corner left of her destroyed bedroom open to...
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In a Country Church
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Oluwafemi Olaseni.
We just don’t know the twist and turn of our life, and it is just as well! He is very famous in England and in the West, he may have left on a high...
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The Other Side of the Attic Window II
The twins stopped by with a question. “How’d you become a ghost?” “It was my turn,” I said. Halloween being over, I thought I’d have more me time...
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2026
A new year, a new leaf, a new calendar: we are here, time is brief – how and whither shall we wander? …
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My Dinosaur Era Chapter 10 *Rewrite*
the door to the pub is closed it’s already midday I keep walking never breaking stride once more around the block pretend to the world that I’m just...
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ballad of storms of silence
listen to the roar of storms listen to the roar of gales! listen to the hymns of silence do you hear the song of songs? ~ hear the gentle silence of...
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Smoke-Free For Two Years
Something wonderful happened two years ago. On January 1, 2024, I gave up all forms of tobacco. I've been smoke-free two years today. I decided to...
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Mother Of Cleansing
Mother Of Cleansing By Paul McCann Mother of cleansing help us to wash the black marks from our face of tears we have cried in years of disgrace ...
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GOODBYE, SOUL BROTHER -1 Cont
Lef rye lef hada lef rye lef out of the major’s (Zev’s) quarters, back into the boonies. A female FuPeg bows. Tiny creatures. The males are small...
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My Dinosaur Era Chapter 9 *Rewrite*
still editing. not even sure if I have the mental energy to even try and submit another manuscript. the eternal nightmare of the writer. ugh. happy new year
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All the best...
Not such a happy new year, really...
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Winter Landscapes
Dark brown fringe upon blue sky …
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"Of all the trees..."
I thought the Holly and the Ivy might have something to say at this time of year?
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Bron-1
Chapter 1 She hit the surface of the water, arms and legs spreadeagled, with a crash rather than a splash. “MAM!” she shrieked. The cold hit her like...
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On the Patch Where the Strawberries Grew
Remembering my own Angel of the North, my Sunderland grandmother Grace Erskine, on her special night of the year.
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Atlas of the Drowned Country
The realtor calls it waterfront. The water is in the kitchen. We sleep upstairs. We've always slept upstairs. The first floor belongs to the crabs...
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I won’t tell but I know why you don’t like the festive season-
It’s everyone asking, and wanting to know if you’re one thing or another, married or still living in the city- And for as long as you remember, you...
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