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The Food Of the Gods
Chocolate or ambrosia?
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The Lake of Earth Sprirts
Another micro-fiction piece from the 2013 Prose Pentathlon. A repost, but one I think people might like in these times of enlightened views about the earth and our relationship to it.
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Chasing Down the Holidays
He was standing outside the Woolworth’s on 86th and Third; putting on his gloves like he was in one a them Hitchcock movies and something sinister...
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The Adventures Of Miniator -- Chapter 19 Preston Fox
Preston Fox, had just returned to London from a four week expedition in India. Where he had managed to track down and capture two tiger cubs for one...
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The Vault (6) Pool Games
The men were playing pool when I returned from my visit to the Vault. They'd somehow acquired a pool table during my latest trance, which was now...
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Dreaming the Life
Just nonsense, no need to stop here... Image author's own...
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Spaceship Food
a rework of a piece for an IP a long time ago on ‘Skeuomorphism'*
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Higher Ground
New year, new me (and all that..)
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I Dreamed of Hellscapes (2021)
That was not California. That was liminal, my brain healing itself. There was not a trellis in my history. I did not climb down knee scraping brick...
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The Birthday Girl
Brielle led a group of 3 & 4 year olds in what she called a run-run as they scooted in a meandering style to the party table guarded by two...
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What Else?
There’s the proverbial loss of words sometimes, and upon asked to tell a story, all came to mind was : dutch angles, looking long and hard at one of...
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The Vault (5) Tommy's mum's vagina
"There's a Vault," I told the men when I returned from my first visit. An archive. With a woman on reception. She took me to a booth with a hamster...
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Why Bethlehem's remembered
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Now Bethlehem’s remembered throughout the ages vast, for there the Prince was born whose just government...
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The Vault (4) The men in suits
The first I knew of their existence is when I felt their presence behind me while I was cooking spaghetti. It was more frightening than if they'd...
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Z is for Zing
home's in coming, going and holding time between in mud's dark-under, Spring rememberings begin image is by Boris Drenec off Flickr https://www...
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A Nip in the Air
A drop in temperature. (An acrostic poem from my archive)
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Par-um-pah-pum-pum!
In which Josiah comes bearing gifts and Archibald turns to drink.
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The Vault (3) Quack Quack
The woman wasn't on reception the next time I visited the Vault. It was a man, in his late fifties, slim, neatly presented with a finely trimmed...
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The Adventures Of Miniator -- Chapter 18 Hot On The Trail
Chapter 18) Hot On The Trail Neither Swing, nor Narea had been able to sleep. They met in the middle of the night in the kitchen, Swing was drinking...
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From Purity to Mess, to bless
… And now He can burst into any man or woman flood out the strife and mess distress and selfishness with joy and Life.
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