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No Rules Today
We are alive in the moment of our desires the touch of your scent like a flower inside my favourite woodsy trail- a path for me to your lips my dear...
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The Bottle is Back
The bottle is back, The bottle is here, The bottle is with me. I thought it was over. I thought we would never dance with one another again. I...
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R.I.P. Tony Selby
He was an English actor and Gina Sellers was his spouse. He guest-starred in "The Avengers" and "Bless This House". He was a very talented man and he...
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The Adventure of the Bishop (Part 2 or 2)

Part1: https://www.abctales.com/story/maddan/adventure-bishop-part-1-or-2 Dated just nine days later than the telegram is the following letter. It...
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The Adventure of the Bishop (Part 1 or 2)

The following manuscript was found among my father's effects some years after he passed away. The family connection to John Watson was a matter of...
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One Way Ticket

I am writing as a man in his mid--sixties who simply wants to say 'thank you' for my time here on this planet...
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‘Why do you love darkness rather than light?’

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Why preoccupation with the dark –- shivers, shudders raised just for a lark, children teased with ghoulish horror tales – troubled hearts and fears such laughter veils. … Who is hiding message of the Light? …
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The men in the mountains
It seemed a normal village when I arrived, friendly enough to strangers and I soon found employment assisting the village elder in his numerous...
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The Black Crow of Purgatory (Part 3 of 3)

Draft for a 3 part short story Part One at https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/black-crow-purgatory-part-1-3 Part two at https://www.abctales...
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Washed ashore on an isolated island
I will not tell her of the three days I spent adrift alone at sea following the shipwreck. Just be aware that while three days may not seem long, it...
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Marcus

I stare. I know I shouldn’t be doing it, but I just can’t help myself. There is something so perfect and precious about him. Blue eyes like oceans...
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The Mirror Of Dreams
. The Mirror Of Dreams by Paul McCann Got to find a way today to make time for my dreams, there’s always so much to do and no time in between , I’m...
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The house at the end of the cul-de-sac...
Bonnie skipped innocently ahead of her brothers and mother and thought the night was particularly dark and spooky but then it was Halloween and that...
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"Willow's Tail" 21
“Okay, try this one,” Martha said hopefully, pouring the tea into the tasting cup in front of Perfidia. "You know I love tea but Martha my taste buds...
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"Willow's Tail" 20
Martha stood by the window in Perfidia’s kitchen staring out at the vibrant garden bathed in morning sunlight. A gentle summer breeze tickled the...
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Hail
Hail to the fleet harbour’s here at last and the lobster traps are coming home – a successful jaunt upon oceans’ swells. From a settlement of...
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When It Gets Late Earlier

As my hemisphere gets darker The men who wind up the world Decide to make it darker still Just days before my birthday When I always wish for more...
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Forest Terror

My attempt at a poem for Halloween Midnight hour in eerie forest deep beyond; cold air circles essence of spirit trees, those dark deformed;...
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A Boss, rare

A Boss, rare With obeisance, with reverence, with gratitude assuredly accrued over past half a century teeming over the memory, with pains at the...
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