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In the mix
She was on the spectrum Hated waiting never laughed She scratched her arms With a ball point pen And laughed at the scars She could articulate The...
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Says what?
Here’s a puzzle on a building, How and why and when fixed up? Can you work out – read its message, no, not Latin, nothing deep. Bottom right , then...
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Watching You, Chapters Seven and Eight
Chapter Seven Black loafed into the car park, deserted already, but there was a rusty portable rectangular frame enclosing a message chained to the...
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I Am A Sinner
An old poem revamped and re-submitted.
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Bus Pass Has an Adventure
In Scotland, bus passes are available to everyone over sixty. This summer I thought I’d take mine out on some adventures, like the ‘Famous Five’. ‘...
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Heavy as earth, light as straw
You thought it would be different. More eye-catching? Like athletes are welcomed in their hometown when they have won a gold medal at the most recent...
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1:5:2 Fate (Part 1)
Roaring. The engines above howled as Char and Destiny double checked their limits. Data on the screen, they sent it down to The Slingshot team below...
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- 474 reads
What Becomes of the Brokenhearted (Dead Reckoning series - Part 11)
In which both Archibald and Josiah have reason to feel chipper but Samantha less so.
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Sometimes I just text. Sometimes I want to call. Sometimes I end up here...
Hey human, Sometimes I just text. Sometimes I want to call. Sometimes I end up here... writing to myself just to get you off my chest, not like I...
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The Viper
Witten 2014 – Combines the Terry Waite story and a Blakes 7 opening scene as it’s inspirations. The hood made my world dark and the ropes that bound...
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Spontaneous
It was a Schiaparelli pink day. Briar roses and campions deep pink against the dove-grey sky. Thunder wanting another roll with us. North wind...
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The Collection Plate
The Collection Plate By Paul McCann There were two collections back then by the confraternity men, with their wooden collection plates. Standing...
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Celia
She swam in a lake of cliches Repeating tired phrases Whilst looking up to the moon She laid on a bed of daises Looking up at the sky She always...
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Pulp Fiction
A pile of CDs in the bedroom of the house that you still live in, in your dreams. The first wedding you go to as an adult, You look at the bride and...
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If Only
The bombs that never went boom The aeroplanes that couldn't fly The bullets that refuse to fire Because no one wanted to die The war ghouls of landed...
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Bill or Bob?
If William Shakespeare and Bob Marley had a fight, who do you think would win? There’s only one way to find out…
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That's Lucky
Yesterday I picked a few hedgerow plants to use for cyanotype images. A dandelion clock, buttercups, ground elder, grasses, cow parsley. The more...
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Choices
Will you choose a veggie meal, or will you choose the meat? Will you choose the savoury, or no, preferring sweet? Will you choose to drive, or will...
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Oiled
All the while I'm holding back From drinking From eating From loving Heart beating Breathing Running I'm holding me back A Spring oiled Baked, coiled...
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