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The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir 24

1971 "I love you, I love you, I love you." Agnes slid out of bed naked and did a kind of pirouette. She was no ballerina and tumbled down onto the...
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Reckoning

Police sirens wail through air, puncturing the otherwise moderate fibre of the day. They come from different directions, carried to your ears on the...
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Shuffling
Life is growing older rhythms muscles diminished skin loosely divided and grey in the uppermost- yet his shuffling in the far corners of a nursing...
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Bygones

They bundle us intae the back ay the jeep, Zander just aboot greetin, ‘Whit aboot the Beemer? Ah’m tellin ye the noo, that better no have as much as...
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There’s Always Time For You And I
. There’s Always Time For You And I By Paul McCann Suddenly time fell to the ground and in the silence I heard you speak And in the wonder of that...
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The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir 23

The human body holds on average ten pints of blood. The blood is pumped around the veins by the heart. The heart is the repository of love. And if...
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Finding Fights
“Bloody sand.” Lore had to nearly completely disassemble their Breacher to find the last pesky grain but as soon as they could, they left the...
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Famine's End
Half done. With their work complete, Alodrass and Brian could only wait for Lore’s team’s return. Unsure of what to do with themselves, they got...
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What Goes Around (Part Two)

* * * ‘Granda! Ye awright? Talk tae me Granda!’ ah sais, loosenin his tie an undain the tap button ay his shirt ‘He’s deid! Fuck sake man! First ma...
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What Goes Around (Part One)

‘So, dae ye think he owed them money or somethin like that? Ah mean, c**ts don’t just fling c**ts aff ay buildins fur nuttin, know whit ah’m sayin?’...
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Sugar Daddy
It was hard for her husband and child to believe what she had done. She ran off with a sugar daddy and abandoned her husband and son. She did her...
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You are not your illness.
The girls left a heady brew of perfume behind. I poured Etian some water and he was well enough to sit up in bed and sip it. He began coughing and...
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Mr Alfred N.Muggins Seeks To Cleanse The World By The Example Of His Writing
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It became his intention to splurge through the history books, driving arch capitalists and yuppies, islamic extremists, tyrant worshippers and...
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A Carnival

"Weeell... Ah ain't never seen such a bunch a' hucksters, flim-flam artists, 3-card monte, double dealing scoundrels in ma life" A visitor to our own very special Carnival in the Palace of Westminster. Image: No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html
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Extra sleep or extended day?

Every day she wakes at 7, today it will be 6. “Breakfast at 8,” but that will be too late today and the snack will …
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Dietrich and back again.
Marlene Dietrich bought me a drink this evening in a bar downtown. She said I looked sad and lonely but I assured her I was just hungry. I asked her...
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What We Fear In The Darkness

The orange glow in the kitchen seemed almost alive as the candles flickered, sending shadows dancing around the room. The creeping vampire sneaked...
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A letter from Bahalia

A letter to Nollaig, sent by Captain Bartas recounting his first few days after mooring in the port of Khamal'ard.
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tall storey
Once upon a time, a family was looking for somewhere to settle, came upon a piece of land and decided to build where the sun always shone and the...
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Bare bottoms in the graveyard.
Refulgent sunshine skimmed over the graveyard behind the Church this morning. It threw long shadows on the grass that was crisp and white with...
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