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Rools is Rools

I’m not much of a drinker, I’ll buy an occasional bottle of my favourite brew when it takes my fancy while out shopping or a half bottle of wine to...
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The Patrolman - 25

Jake Lacey crouched in the bushes and waited.
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In times of trouble
In times of trouble I will be there when you feel like no cares and feel your on your own take my hand I am your port in the storm in time of trouble...
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Love is like the rain
Love is like the rain beautify and calm love is stronger like a ocean wave hearts that turn into one when you found that someone when you look into...
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Xion Island Carrier: Chapter 19

It was Tuesday, not that it mattered with working turnaround shifts, but Tuesdays were difficult to feel thrilled about. They should come with a free...
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Perverse Future
Dear diary... How I long for breathing space, Evoking past is all it takes To fulfill measure of time... Hiding doubts reflected in Disenchantment...
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Wardrobe Mistress
I stood in front of the wardrobe we shared and stared and stared. I had just seen her with overalls down below her knees, your familiar bare bum...
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Immersed in barley!

Sometimes a crop the farmer sows, then clears a line where the footpath goes across his field. Sometimes he leaves the crop to grow and thinks the walkers all will go across and trample down that bit, and so others the footpath’s track will know …
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These Are The Lines

Not THE lines maybe ... some of them. The (mis)use of the homonym is deliberate.
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Sometimes the foxes scream
Sometimes the foxes scream, relentlessly. I wonder if only I can hear them— and then I remember my neighbours can too, or... are they asleep? As...
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Free
Free are butterfly free is the sky free is a bumble bee flying by free is the night sky free is the moon free is the day light free is the sound of a...
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Steelie 19

The boy was growing tired. Von Stehle could see it in the way his head lagged to one side and the way he no longer caressed the material like he was...
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Xion Island Carrier: Chapter 18

The interview room was cold, but James McAlister didn’t seem to notice. He was still. Paler even than the day of the funerals, and the room was...
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I’m going out of my mind trying to get into yours
“You’re not shutting out the thoughts you’re receiving,” the instructor said, “You’re letting the duck's thoughts and feelings influence you. You...
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Death by Selfie

strangely unaffecting to see lives lost in this way is that a shocking thing to say? guy falls from building filming himself doing handstands on the...
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Golden Aged
Years ago, the cinema was top. Rare to see a disappointing flop. Of course, crisp packets went embarrassingly pop. In crime, it was a satisfying fair...
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spring 2
I heard it again for the first time in a very long time, through cheap earphones while walking over uneven ground, wind clattering longstanding trees...
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Xion Island: Chapter 17

I am filled with hatred. And, to my disgust, something close to nostalgia. The flesh remembers things the memory has never known. I tell her my name...
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"Mr. Nothingsworth"

Mr. Nothingsworth, proprietor of the “Whatnot” shop of castaway things and oddities, was a self proclaimed curmudgeon. The old coot loved to annoy...
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I don't have time to waste
I'm going to run the race I don't have time to waste it's life it's just life take it while you can cause before you know it will be all gone I want...
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