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The 8th Anniversary
My former dog and I would be celebrating our 8th anniversary together today if she hadn't died. Because my computer is in the shop, I'm having to use...
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Long-range Forecast
Meeting arranged. Lore, Char and Chairman Shren had a day to prepare their presentation for the coming summit. Of the three key leaders they had...
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Celebrating women in the workforce
International Women’s Day is celebrated annually. It is a fitting celebration for the most important person in most of our lives. Wife, mother, aunt...
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Surplus Food
Unexpected co-operation. After the events of the previous night, Lore was expecting some hesitancy from the Chairman but there was none present when...
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Virtual Readings
Not accustomed to public speaking. (image has been released into the public domain by its author, AKA MBG . This applies worldwide)
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15.1 A Load of Crapes
25 th Saturday, she crossed Mississippi River and drove over the notorious Wilkinson Bridge to the Capital of Louisiana. She booked Hotel Indigo in...
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WebWorld (4.5)
We didn’t talk about it at first. We had things to do. It appeared that the first thing we might have to do was to stay alive. We drove in over the...
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A Home Coming
There were days like this. Home in the image is not where my parents lived, and it may be really nice for all I know. image from Flicker.com taken by Elliot Brown Licence CC BY-SA 2.0
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Sky
Three short lines, inspired by last night's clouds (Langstone, Hampshire)
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Maria and the Bellasis Family
Maria and the Bellasis Family- 1880-1899 This is a continuation of the book about Maria Bowring, but since I have little actual documentary evidence...
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An Inadvertent Indignity
There's nothing like a rasp, To make people gasp. Sends them running to the door, Wrestling with the hasp. Batting around their faces, As if fending...
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Aphasia
Words fall. Fail no sign. The sign is the signifier is the signified Is black. Signs gone back to black.
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Raptor
I have the talent to undo you. Should I rest upon your servant wrist, you could not resist my power there, unable to undo or endure the barbed wire...
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Reflections. Chapter One Pt. Two
Two more games and twenty minutes later the trio left without further upset. Maria had cleared and wiped-down their table before she got her coat and...
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Reflections. Chapter One Pt. One Some may recall this from quite a few years back. A rewrite. And in my real name.
One Frankie’s Diner Adam Carter twisted his wedding ring around and around on his finger as he stood at the foot of two graves in Richmond’s Holy...
The Apprentice
Noo then lad, job's a goodun. You'll do well, even though yer brain is wooden. My time is past, and me guts is black pudden. So I'm off home now, to...
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king for a day
In the nursery hours, bright sway of May
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Four Stanzas in Search of a Poem
What it says. Image is by Carl Spitzweg and is in the public domain because he's been dead quite a while.
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14.2 Ven Conmigo
When she stepped on Santa Monica Avenue, it turned out to be a sublime cool afternoon. A setting sun shed rays on the avenue, shone low over sunset...
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Mad Dogs and Englishmen
An old one: probably written in the summer of 2014, which was hotter than usual in The Frying Pan of Spain, the Guadalhorce Valley. image source flicker.com photographer Beppie licence CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
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