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Lonesome Dove
Note : spoiler alerts Some time ago HarryC recommended the epic Western novel Lonesome Dove to me. It took some time but I got it out of the library...
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in the wake of Ozymandias
consolidated collected, disassembled escaped; a shuffle construction, random displacement and absence. and it all swirls around, using up time. slate...
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Easter Sunday
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] So many believe anything that is odd, but deceived, won’t believe in an almighty God, and think it absurd...
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I. Deep Storage - Part One
The gloves were her own. The county provided a box of disposable nitrile, blue, size medium, restocked every Monday in the supply closet beside the...
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Is Kerry Katona a Cat Owner?
Marching on together through the first fifteen days of the month at a steady rate of one hundred words per day.
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Please Jesus, What kind of self-indulgent, delusional, and immoral monsters do I see before me ?
Do not fear monsters, my friend...
an empty floating
echo space expanded extensive extended a simple drop of water blue purple crystal in a shattered sphere and the glint of something hidden drifting in...
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Bron-28
Continued from Chapter 27: Bron-27 | ABCtales “Well, if I had a pound for every bugger who said what a character he was I’d be … well, I wouldn’t be...
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Artemis Too?
I saw their projected track, the one where they'll lasso the moon: a figure 8 to the dark side - and back? What if they don't make it? What if it's...
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Crisis
Crisis is their chief export Unrest their unloved child The promises they make broken Huddled masses long to be free of them We are such a deafened...
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Since April
The mockingbird on the gutter has been running through his list since before the sun came up. He does not stop for traffic. He does not stop for me...
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McCann case 3
In a world of nothing, the social-work office was the centre. Being a social-work client stripped away humanity. Left a covering layer of dignity,...
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A List
Dogs and their expressions, Holidays in Greece. Taking music lessons, The chance of global peace. Sunlight on a summer dress, Laughing with a friend...
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GHIGAU 30 (PT2)
The Mercedes certainly was a beautiful car, if you liked that sort of thing. It was whisper quiet, with seats that cooled and massaged their...
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GHIGAU 30 (PT1)
Lenny was still towelling his hair dry after a shower, when his phone rang. “Lenny? Sam Tate.” He pulled the towel around his waist and sat on the...
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Things that he took to the Afterlife
Clutching his dog's ashes, his grandfather’s watch chain and a recipe for toad in the hole, he joined the queue for the afterlife. His last few...
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Bonnie Prince Charlie (Slight Return)
You saw him at the foot of the ancestral staircase, not quite see through but wavering in the sunlight heavy with Cairngorm dust, like midges...
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Who is He really?
Do you know who He was? He who hung on a cross? He was good, He was wise – so why bore He such loss? So that you, so that I could have friendship...
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Bo Bo's Milk Run
Bo Bo’s Milk Run By Paul McCann Bo Bo was up early to start his new job as a milkman . He had just picked up the new electric powered milk truck at...
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V. The Dependents - Part Three
She drove to the facility on Saturday morning wearing the dress she'd worn to Miguel's funeral. She didn't realize this until she was in the parking...
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