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A Letter To ABC Tales Friends
Dear friends, I'm really sorry I've not been around lately. I'm trying hard to be strong and resilient during my chemotherapy, but it does get really...
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Spellbound Chapter 1.
Chapter One. Decision Time. Calizone sat by the fire in her cottage in the Dark Forest, feeling her age. She had been the Witch of the Dark Forest...
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Amanderella and the Mystery of the Silent Statue.Chapter 5.
Chapter Five. More Mysteries. “Once upon a time, the front door would have been opened by a housekeeper, or a butler. But Werlyn dismissed them all...
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3.4 The Paper Trail
Mr Rat reclined in a joali —a handmade outdoor couch with a row of multiple seats built from sticks and knitted with a hammock-like netting. The...
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you cry, you die. chapter 1
23 April 2001 The phone didn't ring. It hummed a low, subterranean vibration against the faux-wood of the hazel-rimmed bedside table precisely at 03:...
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All The Ones Are Taken
And I am sorry. I never became the girl you could stand behind, the one you would root for. But I promise you this. I was never the girl you could...
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What If Challenge - They're Here For the Chickens
Firstly, 'what if' is a game I have recently started playing with my kids to get their imaginations going by starting with one random question and...
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A Game of Cricket
If life, as they say, is like a game of cricket, We're certainly on a sticky wicket. The loose ball will end in a thicket, But vicious bouncers will...
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St Leonards to Bexhill-on-Sea
The train was packed with day-trippers. Through a gap in the seats I spied a young woman with an alarmingly contoured face; its soft planes a...
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Problems with time. Chapter 11.
Calizone stepped towards the passage. The man held up a hand to stop her. “No,” he said, his voice shifting from thin and papery to deep and young,...
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Amanderella and the Mystery of the Silent Statue.Chapter 4.
Chapter Four. Inside. Amanderella stepped back into the vestibule. The space was small, barely ten feet deep, with just enough room for a visitor to...
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A young man raised from the dead
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] From out the city came a crowd – with tears, they carry death. They met another crowd, and he who could...
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" ground squirrel" -tanka
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you cry, you die
The wagon rattled its teeth out on the corrugations of the western Iraqi desert. It was freezing—the kind of dry, biting desert cold that cuts...
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Fruit Cocktail
im age by David from Pixabay.
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The Bungalow-7
Continued from Chapter 6: The Bungalow-6 | ABCtales Hawke tapped on the back door of No. 49A. Hales looked up from the kitchen worktop and motioned...
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Amanderella and the Mystery of the Silent Statue.Chapter 3.
Chapter Three. The First Puzzle. Amanderella remained crouched on the smooth stone, her grey travelling dress pooling around her boots. If someone...
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Problems with time. Chapter 10.
Chapter Ten. Nordon. Walking without magic was like walking blindfolded. Normally, Calizone could feel the pulse of the earth, the underground hum of...
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3.3 The Paper Trail
Five years ago, when Zanat first joined the bank, she had worn a headscarf just like Rosa. Idania, on the other hand, had never worn one ever in her...
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