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World Thoughts
A little waif calling in the wilderness- I hear the strain in his voice – the fear of hunger of loneliness and I hurry to assure him that someone...
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Ugly Puggly 8
I took Agnes a sausage-roll for lunch. Seventy pence from Villa Bakery. You couldn’t beat that. She’d rolled out of her bed, and she wasn’t looking...
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Climbing up from Minton
15/4/22 Rolling Shropshire hills ‘little Switzerland’: humps and valleys with Caer Caradoc standing sentinel on the east; Stiff climb up, but...
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The 2nd of April (8th April 2022)
What do you do with the birthday of one deceased? A life that's ceased Has no punchline nor birthday drinks. If I die, then wish no more sad...
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Chasing Moonshiners
It was the surprisingly loud and unexpected explosion, that accompanied the shattering of my rear windshield, that gave me the first indications that...
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Imagine Focusing
Sitting in garden with eyes shut tight, breathing deeply while enjoying meditating on a beautiful scene. Tall mountains stand naked; but for the...
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14.4 Infidel
Nobody was braced for the moment. It took an embarrassing turn at the Parque de los Periodistas – the park of the journalists – near Hotel Saint...
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Pointless Boris (Part Two of two)
This is the ninth entry in the satirical series at https://www.abctales.com/collection/pandemic-tales-bojo-and-co Part 1 at: https://www.abctales.com...
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Pure and White
It’s such a delight to see one flake then two and ten thousand more to follow soon. Whiteness tumbles from blue and neighbours know what to do-...
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Ugly Puggly 7
Dave said with the kind of accent that rubbed your nose in wealth, ‘Makes you think.’ I hadn’t noticed that before. I didn’t care what he did with...
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Now I Have Seen Everything!
A work colleague, after many hours of hard work, went to her car in the car park and saw that both her car registration plates had been stolen! How...
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On the simple things in life
oh the simple things in life are free like a flying bumble or a leaf that falls down from a tree gently sailing down on a summer breeze oh the simple...
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The Straw Hat
The Straw Bonnet July 12 , 1811 What a day I’ve had. It was frightening but exciting too, and I want to write in my diary all about it. My father,...
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Tooting Beck Yeti
There is a yeti in the toilet Of tooting beck train station He is seldom seen But often heard at night He Swings from the rafters in the great Hall...
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- 415 reads
Ghost House (Chapter 7)
A week later, the second week of my grounding, I was watching ‘The Brady Bunch ‘on TV , just after school , when the phone rang. It was the ‘Wifie...
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14.3 Infidel
The Daimler rolled savagely through a flow of traffic, from calle to carrera, in the so-called ‘Red Light District’, bumping its wheels into potholes...
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Photograph
You stand outside an orange door, you are wearing wide leg, white trousers, if you weren’t wearing boots they would graze the floor. The camera round...
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Cages
Light makes shapes in shadow, bright cages laid out across the floor and up the walls, highlighting marks and scuffs and unclean moments. The...
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Teashop Trip
I joined the visitors and went on a day trip today, but it wasn't the sort they usually enjoyed. I had sat down in the teashop with my cake, coffee...
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Ugly Puggly 6
I fell asleep in the chair. The telly was on mute and a finger of whisky left in the bottle of Glayva. I’d slobbered down the middle of my dark...
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