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Other Colours, Other Clocks. After W.H Auden

Other Colours, Other Clocks After W.H Auden A summer funeral home in a pound shop Essex town. The flowers are chemical, the doves bleached pigeons...
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Chemo 2

I took my poison and survived. That might sound melodramatic, but on the consent form I signed, it listed the possible side effects, and death was...
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My First Job

My parents brought us up knowing the value of money. We weren’t deprived of anything we wanted, we just had to save up for it. When I was fourteen, I...
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Ugly Puggly 54

I dreamt about my mum. Usually, she was giving me something, but it was her I wanted and not the gift. I clung to her legs. My bladder got me up. I...
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Hair Today

Hair today. Hopefully not gone tomorrow. Crowning glory, luscious locks, Rapunzel’s saviour, Samson’s downfall. To cut, colour, curl and comb, to...

Belle and Daisy (4)

All dogs need to go to the vet at some stage in their lives. If they don’t then they must have superpowers and belong in a comic book franchise...

1:1:8 Context (Part 2)

“It is now.” Lore lifted their hands, letting their shackles fall to the floor. One of their arms was considerably thinner than the other. It was...

1:1:8 Context (Part 1)

Pain. Lore had a splitting headache as three years of their own memories settled in their head. They had already felt queasy but activating the...

Work Experience

When I was twenty three, I almost qualified to be a veterinary nursing assistant. I had the theory down but work experience just wasn’t what I had...
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Smokescreen Chapter 3

An encounter with Elvis... not that one. Picture is just an illustration of a random pop-culture reference that no-one will get. Image source is wikipedia. Image included for educational purposes.
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Smokescreen Chapter 2

A vip under caution... Image made by me form PD elements in Canva.
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The Miracle of Maldon (Part Three of Three)

You can read part one at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/miracle-maldon-part-one-three You can read part two at: https://www.abctales.com/...
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part 13

When Mary was finding a place in the basket on Regn's arm to fit a purple mushroom like a small frisbee, Regn moved at last, "PERFECT" . They went...
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James "Buster" Douglas Knockout Boxing

If my memory serves me correct, I bought "James 'Buster' Douglas Knockout Boxing" for the Sega Genesis thirty years ago today on July 8, 1992. It's a...

105 Years Young

I see love on her face eyes embedded in skin as a bouquet of caring full of passion. Age is not really seen as she smiles with natural teeth- do turn...
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Ugly Puggly 53

Ugly Puggly’s jaw stuck out, and he ground his teeth. A sputtering noise came from the back of his throat. ‘Would yous two stop fuckin about? I’m no...
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Smokescreen

Believe it or not, I wrote this as part of Nanowrimo 2007. This is Chapter One. A then near future dystopic policier where smoking was completely banned, like prohibition for liquor. You'll probably find this a bit dull, but by chapter three or four I think it has a bit of pull. Maybe I'll post those too. Here is the blurb from when I self-pubbed it badly at Bubok Prohibition: not booze, fags. Ray and Harry get wind of a lorry-load of illegal cigarettes and decide to hi-jack it at the point of delivery. Just outside Parliament. Ray and Harry recognise one of the customers. It's the Home Secretary. What can they do? A slightly revised version will be available on smashwords, eventually.

Belle and Daisy (3)

As I worked weddings with my aunt Fiona, I lived parttime in Dublin, parttime in Waterford. We would go to the weddings with a magic mirror photo...

The Old and the Young

Her Daddy playing music upon his violin for older folk in Home of Care … and gently tap their feet and smile remembering past days … she scampered, pirouetted round to her Daddy’s latest tune. …‘Can we ask the dancing girl again to visit us?!
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Belle and Daisy (2)

Belle and Daisy took to being someone’s animal like a duck to water. They gave lots of kisses to everyone and, no matter how many beds my aunt, Fiona...

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