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Winter Refuges

Tiny folded leaves encased in tough scales … protected from the burning frost … waiting there to grow, unfold … And the bulbs are safe as well … hibernating like the tiny dormouse; chemistry on ‘slow’ ’til switched to ‘fast’ with …
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Love Story 16

We’d arranged to meet by the coal cellar, when it was dark. I’d already checked. The lights in Mrs Connolly’s house were out. Apart from the one in...
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Being Better Ch1 - How we met, as far as I remember
(Rough draft/Thank you airyfairy for the format tip, it worked.) I first met Olivia in our first year of high-school. It’s far away from my home, far...
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The Changing of Seasons

The Changing of Seasons Skies painted silver Rain drifting on breezes. Cumulus roiling in the distance. The sigh of mountains Heaving in silence. A...
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Rustic entertainers

Rustic Entertainers Entertainment of modern day with casinos, multiplexes’ play a man can relax and enjoy at his will sweet opting from options...
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Murmuration - Chapter 21 (Part 1) 1992
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“DJ Sasha!!” Manny is screaming as a large and expanding group of us walk towards the Escape club opposite the pier roundabout. “Come on 24-hour party people”, he continues “DJ Sasha in the area!”. Katie wraps her arm around me and pulls herself into me, holding me tight, The night seems light and open under the full moon. I look at her and smile, still lost in my thoughts about tonight's gig. It feels like something important happened tonight. I can’t quite put my finger on it.
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P-p-planning

Party planning, picking pals, piles of posting, phoning – purchasing plenty – pizzas, pittas, partly plain pâtés, pasties, pretty pastries, puddings...
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Philosophical Daze

Image is of The Penrose Stairs (Escher's work came afterward). Image is PD
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Life & Its Goodness
What looks like sunshine on my bed space is really moonlight from the busy nightscape that filters through a curtain beside my bed. It highlights a...
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Artemisia’s Hammer

A man and woman contemplate a scene of violence. Inspired by Artemisia Gentileschi.
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Love Story 15
Ali came to my room after dinner. It was too cold to do anything. So we rolled about my bed, cuddling and kissing. She moaned a few times. Flashed...
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Inside the mind of the home secretary
Homelessness was my lifestyle choice ? Does cosmo tell you which cardboard boxes are in this season ? I do nt want to be seen in the wrong soup...
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Halloween Dance

Halloween dance (inspired by Oscar Wilde’s poem The Harlot’s house) In the moonlit street Halloween's embrace, Dancing footsteps set the pace. From a...
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Parcel for you...Part 7
In the days that followed, Vanessa resolved to keep an open mind about her new spouse, a healthier mindset, free of jealousy and unrealistic...
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Seriously?

Last week on the news, I heard the story of an estranged Wife. The estrange Husband and estranged Wife, were no longer together they divorced in 2015...
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Artificial Intelligence (Hay Eye)
The two blokes sat on the steps of a disused library. They weren't actually identical twins, but looked it. Both had large stomachs which made...
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Invisible

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chemo 2 - session 2

Cheo 2 -session 1 day 5 I suppose if this is supposed to be an honest story of what it is to live with and no doubt die from cancer, it is important...
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The Book of Alfred the Great II (Muggins!), as written by that famous prophet of Past Present and Future!
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(which unfortunately did not quite get into the Bible as it was written 2,000 years too late! Neither did it get into the Torah or the Koran! – so...
The Fisherwoman and the Sea
THE FISHERWOMAN AND THE SEA For days I watched her. Every morning when I looked out to sea the trawler was there in exactly the same spot: about half...
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