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Chapter 3: Forced Recruitment
“Ah, he’s waking up.” A pause. “Heilig! He’s waking up!” “Coming, coming.” As he was joining Aurora, he grabbed some food from a bag and some water...
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Chapter 2: First Dream
I’m floating. An infinite void. Filled with memories. Moments of life. Of lives. Lives I’ve never lived. Lives I’ll never live. Yet, somehow...
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Chapter 1: Kidnapping
A door slammed shut, shaking the wall around it. After bouncing and oscillating for a few seconds, a worn-down sign settled, crooked to the right. “...
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Banished To Earth Book One (40) curtisrjones53@icloud.com
Of course, the bed was a cozy nest of silky material spread over a cloud of comfort and warmth. After slipping into a pair of fur-lined sandals that...
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The Little Lamb
My Scottish grandmother, Helen, had a remarkably efficient system for deciding who was best. The firstborn won. That was it. No interviews, no...
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The First Witch Chapter 4
Chapter Four. The Lake. Das flew steadily over the Forest. Jasmine leaned over his neck, peering down through the trees and picking out the winding...
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Amanderella and the Ppockingstull Treasure Chapter 2
Chapter 2. Home Visit. Amanderella drew herself up to her full height, hat and all. “Mother, Father, I have come home to make something perfectly...
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Tom All Alone 17
I posted a version of this a few years back, as some may remember. It was a factual piece as the incident actually happened. I've rewritten it now as...
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Supper With Sarah...
An unexpected end to a romantic supper...
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Banished To Earth Book One (39)
Chapter 22 142 Neither said anything as they climbed the thickly carpeted stairs, turned left at the top, and slowly padded their way to their...
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Factory Haiku Set
Strong men with wrenches turning and yanking loose screws: teamwork and timing Robot and human minds and "hands," meet to produce sound shining...
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Banished To Earth Book One (38)
“It’s kinda like found footage shaky, shadowy…” Trudy hesitated, “hard to watch.” She leaned forward, snatched the remote, and quickly turned the...
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The Weiver
It wasn't until recently that they saw themselves; the face in the mirror was never their own. They were a mind piloting a vessel, two separate...
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Banished To Earth Book One (37)
Beth watched the two of them walk toward the downstairs bathroom by the front of the house. “Okay, now we have three superheroes. That’s a good thing...
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the arsenal
I watch upper street on the telly almost unrecognisable beneath eruptions of red smoke and the decades of new money the arsenal we are the arsenal my...
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Fin
a wave slurps at a rock just below the mini golf place as it pulls away its lips smack an echo rises up ruffles a nearby cormorant he shakes it off...
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"Oh Mein Papa"
Eddie Calvert: 8 th January to 11 th March 1954
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Cockatoo Chorus
Artwork: Jessica McCallum © 2000 Although actually written at university and included in my chapbook ‘Return of Rainbows’, this poem was first...
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Amanderella and the Ppockingstull Treasure Chapter 1
Chapter 1. A Letter from Mother. Lady Amanderella Gottsnobbler, the famous explorer, discoverer of the fabled whistling blue monkeys somewhere up the...
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The First Witch Chapter 3
Chapter Three. The Witch’s Cottage. The Witch’s cottage would have taken Jasmine all day to reach on horseback, but it was only a short flight for...
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