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How it Ends?
Travelling through life I currently find myself on a journey through psychotherapy. Recurrent episodes of depression and work related burnout have...
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Well I’ll the Son of a Dude
Well in reality I’m a daughter and, Mother was a bitch. Not all the time, just when it required persuasion to get something done. I never saw much of...
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I Fought the Law (Dead Reckoning series - Part 37)
In which the Detectives move their investigation on, despite D.S. Stone's objections, and Josiah and Archibald gain legal representation, of sorts!
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Don't Jinx It
Am wondering if Green Man is bringing good luck to my door. A weird thought. Can Green Man charm good luck? Have I just jinxed it? [knocks on wood]...
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Assisted Suicide.
I don't listen to the news, nor do I watch the news, but like everyone else this week, no one could escape the topic of the week, assisted suicide. I...
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Of Data, 'Memes,' and Dreams
As per usual, I've been giving a lot of thought to technology and the sciences, though I haven't been writing much for a period. But critical to...
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What it’s like to be dyslexic from personal experience
Academics and experts write reams about my condition but I believe I can offer a unique perspective as adult dyslexic adult myself, self advocacy is...
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Chhota – A cattle herd boy
Chhota – A cattle herd boy Decades back in my village, native the caste system was active. There existed a caste milkman, they are classed. Deal they...
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Imprints
After the slightly harrowing, ‘Thursbitch’, have been reading Marc Chagall’s autobiography, ‘My Life’. Written over a century ago, yet I feel an...
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Adam Hopkins September 1939 - November 2024
Sometimes, panic stops my breath. You’ve always been anxious, my wife says. To comfort me? Or is there a note of impatience? Anxious? Not me. Because...
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How to avoid the seemingly anavoidable
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In a world spun tight with worries, where shadows hint "impossible," we search for ways to slip through the cracks, to dance around the edges of fate...
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People say I'm a dreamer
You meet Walter Mitty at a nondescript café on a drizzly Tuesday afternoon. He’s wearing a beige cardigan, slightly wrinkled, and looks like the kind...
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Oven.
Sunday night I was excited. I was due a text to tell me what slot time our new dishwasher was going to be delivered. Their delivery times were...
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Perverted Wisdom
Perverted Wisdom Born and brought up in a remote rural setup in a village curdled by rivers inhabited by mostly farmers other professionals were a...
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More — or less?
Oliver Twist came some kids to meet, to ask if they’d had enough to eat …
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Bus Pass [but mostly BPL] Get into a Fix
Bus Pass noticed that BPL was not quite herself ever since their last top decker on the X bus. Usually fabulous and scintillating company, BPL had...
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The Calm Before
Friday was the calm before the storm. Calm Ernie, before Storm Bert. The sea in post-workout stretch-mode, was a particularly beautiful grey-green. A...
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The Last Night Chapter 8 Where the sun never sets
The Last Night Chapter 8 Where The Sun Never Sets 25 The cold light of a trillion distant stars speckled the infinite blackness The Strion Concord...
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Isolated (Ch 5)
That dinner felt like a blur… Dear old dad must’ve slipped a perc in between dinner and our usual dry-blunt rotation. Sprawled out, inconsistent...
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Pasture-Cleaners
Beetles that roll up balls of their favourite food source … cattle imported but their poo wasn’t suited to the native dung beetles …
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