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Dear Dads-
if you only knew how much your drinking shrinks your family’s souls many days of pain and misery are felt and yet they forgive you. Years ago a grown...
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Long John Santa and the Christmasola
Oops, Santa Claus and Treasure Island just got their wires crossed.
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A Guy with a Bonsai
Image: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Author : Sailko
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Trees
Gnarled roots extending, gripping, stabilising the soil branches lifting, spreading leaves to shade and shelter, exchange gases, refreshing the...
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G is for Glitter and Gorse
scattering sparkle specks outlast family trees bully wind's brash frolics fresh gold unfurlings tease
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Andrew Bradshaw Conquers the Fountain of Youth (Part 4)
Richard Morris sat at the head of a cherry wood dining room table, sucking at the end of a jet black smoking pipe. The pipe was empty, but it...
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F is for Fairy Lights and Frost
fossilised Life's dark fires strings of electric sweets skimming crystal empires as blue sky's bright heart beats
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6
6 sides (including top and bottom) to cubes and bricks. And every insect …
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Copse and Robbers
No Bulgar children, women or men Can recall the day exactly when They first strode into forested lands With an axe on a shoulder or a saw in a hand...
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On Patrol with Izi's Eyes
Rescues of Inspiration Inspiring others by leadership is an art from DJ’s prospective, it takes courage and failure is an option, but you gotta try...
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The Adventures Of Miniator - Chapter 12 Close Encounter
Chapter12) Close Encounter When it had grown dark the Dino took-off, and plunged into the ocean. It immediately performed a shape-shift to a typical...
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5
5 days for school – Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and then Thursday, Friday; 5 fingers on each hand (though one is called a thumb) 5 petals on a...
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Cold Night for a Homeless Man
So cold my legs they should be like fire not almost frozen baby blanket stolen the only contact I had with my mother the child in me – remembering...
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Moving
He moved house in his ninetieth year all by himself. Not because the flat he had was unsuitable, nor that he couldn’t manage the stairs. There was...
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"Come From Away" Review
“Come from Away” This afternoon, we were seeing the dramatic production “Come from Away.” We arrived at the venerable Artis Naples complex, that...
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What do you want most this Christmas?
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] He offers what we need the most … Those things which we enjoyed at first were soon disclosed as really worst.… and in your heart his joy is wrought.
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A Remembered Summons
Post took longer to arrive in those black-and-white days decades ago. The Royal Mail had to fight through packs of wolves across the 'Here Be Dragons...
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E is for Elf and Evergreens
unseen hands making true lucky children's wishes their coats are never new but, in Winter, riches
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D is for Dove (Decoration and Real)
blind symbol of peace, cut from wordless paper, swings hunger flown further out shy beauty on grey wings
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