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Mission Creep
Oh, please, not yet. It’s November, for goodness sake. I've got dahlias in flower, the squirrels are burying conkers on my lawn, and the thin duvet’s...
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November Blues
November Blues It was ‘Black Friday’ last week and although a sales event it clashed with Christmas, which starts commercially as early as the summer...
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Papa’s Got a Brand New Chainsaw
The usual rigmarole. Half a month (this bit being the first half of November) described using precisely one hundred words per day.
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Boys' Own Up
Hmm... I'm sure you'll work it out
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FIRE!!
Being an old git, not particularly interested in travel, I normally circulate around cafes and hotels to satiate what's left of my social instincts...
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Cubed
White. A hologram appeared. “If you are watching this, it means one of three things: I have forgotten something and need a reminder, I am editing...
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Shopping to Excess - (2025 Remix)
Sunday , still November Urban urchins, Doric divas, Tik-Tok toerags, Facebook fops from tenement flats and tower blocks all descend, upon the city to...
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a song of africa
bless us as sisters and brothers grant us oh lord, and bountiful love of each to the others let us love the land of our fathers hear our prayer to...
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I prophesy Amoebas
I prophesy Amoebas: mutating, sluggish Zombieish in the living dead university laboratory by the slide projector, the Homo Erectus skull, and a...
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“The people who walked in darkness …
… have seen a great light.” Isaiah 9:2 [Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] When darkness grips and happiness slips a Word of light guides in the...
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In the Forest of Ardenne
In the Forest of Ardenne we are a multitude who hide from different kings and things for differing reasons. Some have found God and take holy penance...
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Dread December.
I can sense dread December about to roll in, and you can too I suspect. In rolling in it will obnubilate the soft November memories that I’m...
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Essential.
I thought it would be easy, I had written it down as one of the things on my to do list. But when I got to that on my list, it wasn’t in the first...
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Lily (Chapter Six)
Eli followed Keeper through the night. The woods seemed to shift around them. He had lived in these hills his whole life, but he didn't recognize...
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The Waiting Room
The vertical blinds tapped against the open window, casting striped patterns on the floor that sharpened and faded with the passing cloud. Lizzie...
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Female. Human. Accident
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My mind is a barrel of snatched blurbs, tweets, quotes Addled fear of a trans future where nothing is safe, women are lost, dismembered body parts...
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Singing In My Hometown
Singing In My Hometown By Paul McCann Belfast city centre was blocked to traffic so I left the car around the University area and took a walk into...
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The Leaf Blower - Part 4
On the bathroom shelf, a shabby box of Shobna’s migraine pills caught his eye, the blister pack had slid halfway out and there were only a couple of...
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Inca Ice and Lupins
How do you do? I’m in Peru!
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