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The Late Jacqueline Hill
She starred in "Doctor Who" and "Blood Money". She died thirty years ago today at the age of 63. When she starred in those Doctor Who episodes, she...
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1:3:8 Retrieval (Part 4)
They had prepared for a riot but found themselves instead woefully underprepared for the calm and still. All of the extra gear strapped to and inside...
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Do I Know What Love Is?
Still learning about love...
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A Valentine from a False Friend
Image with thanks from Dreamtime free stock
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Red Roses Are For Lovers
Once I was sanguine. Sanguinary? One of those.
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Persephone's first day
I came from darkness into darkness from walls of Earth, veined halls seeping mesh of fresh water down, along, down sought and silent-supped by...
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Human life
Human life Life is a never a highway without humps on the way with prior indications to caution not to deviate from the mission. it has curves and...
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Friday Night at Zhivago’s
Stolen from him at the college disco under a neon moon and Tainted Love. The dance floor became a crime scene. For here was the kiss of the century...
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The Esoteric Few
Whom Byron claimed one of his poems was written for. Not this one, because it's mine, but it's still for the esoteric few. Image author's own
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nothing more than saltwater
nothing more than saltwater at school i was told, with cudgel control by those claiming to educate all the things that make britain great: a common-...
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No-one Found
Nowadays we need closure. In the past, it might have been a long and lingering grief, we have forgotten what it is like not to know, which must make it even harder to bear. Image is PD, YAY!
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The Speech Writer Pt. 6
"Mara stop joking around! If I don't get to work on time I'm going to lose my job!" Pearl laughed. Mara was holding onto her leg as she tried to...
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Working title
Rain poured from the sky, soaking through the leaves and wetting the grass, turning flesh to dirt and dirt to mud. Bootprints vanished, washed away...
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Non, je ne regrette rien! (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 4)
In which Archibald revels in foreign parts and Josiah makes a stand!
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SNORE
I love to hear my sweetheart snore This may sound odd to you But as my baby saws away I'll tell you what I do I'll regulate my rhythm Till our...
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Is this what you wanted for Valentine's Day?
Sometimes metaphors can create communication problems.
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wOr d S
what it s a ys Image created by author at canva.com
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Mr Smith
This came out of nowhere; but I imagine it was Stevie Smith's influence.
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For The Love Of Village Life
Dear diary... From heart of Shire where I was born, no rush to grow away from black and white memories; those sinuous lanes I knew well, are now...
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Any Old Jerusalem
On the laps of our beloved smoking mothers –
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