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Larry and Mick and the Purple Pandemic

"People are still getting haircuts and using tanning booths!," said Larry, as he burst through the front door. "Don't they know there's an apocalypse...
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The Princes of the Dark Ages At The Seaside (Part One)

The warband has stopped off from its ravaging and gone to the beach for the day. They have forgotten their swimming costumes and don’t own a beach...
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Pete's Sunflower (a villanelle)

There have to be some benefits to life-out-there closing down! Hello again everyone! Sorry to have been so gone for so long! Here's a poem I've been meaning to write since the passing away of my dear neighbour last year...x
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Swansong

From a deserted car park
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Unprecedented

Alan pulled the blinds back and looked down at the empty street below. Six -ten in the morning and the road outside was traffic free, not even the...

Diamonds Underground - Chapter 6

Diamonds Underground Chapter 6 Wrong End Of The Stick Locked up like a criminal his head had fallen. The false charges that were fabricated by police...

Steady on lads !

“Steady as she goes, please” Every day we see displays of short temper that are becoming more frequent. It might be an extended blast of a car horn,...
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Strange Beings in Strange Times

Something changed. People crawled out from under rocks, Wiped the moss from their heads And headed out alone or in choleric pairs, To where they...
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First Cut

Dear diary...17 th March 2020. Body's gone into battle, head engulfed in what feels like swampy moss, becoming clogged among this chaotic scene, like...
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LIving in the time of the Red Death

Living in the time of Red Death It is Friday, the 20 th of March, in the year of our Lord, 2020. We are in the second week of a massive assault by...
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35. Third Finger, Left Hand

Gabe aims too low... Image: No known copyright issues...

What is in a Name?

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What is in a Name? By Shane Scott Big Face drove a big truck pulling a big trailer down a big road through a big storm on his way to make a big...

The cell

A long narrow room, With bars on the door, It smells like damp, Water on the floor. The exposed brick, The darkened light, I look around, And see in...
Cherry

This Is The Sound

You'll work it out. Image composed by author from pd elements.
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Penny Queen Part II

Sir Melan Brook was contemplating his vast array of display cases. His collection was amassed over 60 years and represented the best examples of...

Penny Queen Part I

Sir Rowland Hill started something big which was still going 200 years later.
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The haunch

To the sound of spring
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Raising Touch

I will behind my blinds raise an Amazon let her hands raise a votive bowl as her body sways and the horns play rainbows of mists will pour and swirl...
Cherry

A revisit to Aberedw

Last time it was autumn, now in March, but a beautiful day, a beautiful drive over westwards to meander amongst the humpy, bumpy mid-Wales hills into...
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When will this all end?

I regret the advice the government gave Not to stock up on food and loo roll, All of this hassle I would have saved, When covid 19 came to call. The...

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