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9.1 On the Rock
Sabo popped at the door to my kitchen quarter office, “Kawla! Do you mind if I cut some branches from the drumstick tree hanging over the roof?...
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The Courtier From The 21st Century Who Would Be King : The King Behind The Throne : King Henry VIII (Alfred the Great II) : Ch.5 by Alfred Muggins (himself) Part 2 : Wives
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Part 2 : Wives 4/5/23 / 8/7/23 Alfred, who is not one to ever force a woman to do what she doesn’t want to, relented. The real Henry might have used...
The foxes are at it again.
Today’s rawky afternoon has given way at last to an evening sky of pink and baby blue. The mephitic vapours that hung around the trees all afternoon...
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The Provincial Little Caterpillar
The caterpillar hatched from his tiny yellow egg, which was on the underside of a large leaf. He hatched at exactly a millimeter long, and I’m...
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Then, My Village
Then, My Village The pathos of a passerby in his call at a pitch high scared by his loneliness, and beasts howling in the darkness in the late hour...
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Devil's Advocate (Part Two of Three)
Part One at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/devils-advocate Devil’s Advocate (Part Two of Three) It had been a long day and nurse Abbott...
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Grizzly Tragedy
Just a few feet off-trail was all it was- he heard the snap in his ankle – falling across an avalanche of rock brought his hiking partner – spent...
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Beneath My Favourite Tree
In summer that's still and so silent, squirrel munches till rustle of swish from tall hazelnut tree as blackbird catches sight of me, my intention...
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8.2 In the Deep
I got dressed without even washing and zoomed on my motorbike up the Havana streets to Orange Hill taking Camino Costero in the rush hour. I couldn’t...
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Raymond
Raymond The season brings the oldness of a year. A light straining out from a coal morning. The radio wears a cardigan with news of how much the...
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Mother Of Unending Love
Mother Of Unending Love By Paul McCann Mother of unending love Just like the sky above you are always there within view , In that high place there I...
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Trees
Ancient, iconic and majestic
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Authority
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] “All authority in heaven and on earth to Me is given”. While on earth, Jesus, the Lord food created, sight … one day …
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8.1 In the Deep
I heard those bangs on the door loud as thunder. I opened my eyes buried in naked skin of a soft woman. “Mish! Shoppie! Mish!” “Stay calm! Don’t open...
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I’m A Twenty First Century Man
I’m A Twenty First Century Man By Paul McCann I arrived on a hill from my travels far away from the places I’ve seen to here where I’ve been and gone...
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Time Reversal
A friend of mine watches his wedding videos saturday afternoons but he looks at them in reverse. He says he always cries at the part where he gives...
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7.2 Thru the Fire
Sophie Nadz addressed the attendees, “Alright, we are gathered here this evening to renegotiate on the matter of the exchange of lots where I dispute...
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Diaspora
When evening slides downward and shadows creep into view you can hear the lilting tunes from loons hoarding a night sky. There is no comfort in...
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1:4:4 Cyenzeit (Part 2)
A lot had changed for them since The Three Year Month; there was a confidence about Luscillus that had not been present the last time Lore...
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The Parasite: Chapter Five - Final Chapter
V: Sin-Eater His father led the way, meandering out of the hamlet and onto the steep track that led to Alice’s. Cillian watched his father’s head, a...
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