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Something to Read

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The Sure Yank Redemption

This is a sequel to: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/most-vial The jet plane roared as it penetrated trans-Atlantic airspace. The ocean rose...
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Maria's Diary 17
Chapter 17 Another election Father and Savior! plant within that bosom The seeds of holiness - and bid them blossom In fragrance and in beauty bright...
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ACE, ACE BABY- CORONOVIRUS DIARIES
ACE, ACE BABY- CORONOVIRUS DIARIES She scores the winning goal. Hailstorms again in South London today. No hail or thunder can stop the eight year...
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HER NAME IS GRACE
HER NAME IS GRACE H er name is Grace She is tall and handsome She draws a card and it's an ace! "Unpack your bags, don't be a disgrace Our little...
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Waiting for Ijemma

I must write down more of these people I used to know in Spain, before I forget them. Of course, changing the names means their true identity will disappear, so will I remember them or not? Anyway, the bones of this are true.
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A Useful Quote
'Talking is the enemy of progress. Action is its one true friend.' A Man in the Pub (1972)
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We Were Lions
We Were Lions in our younger days able to drive foot heavy on the pedal where gravel roads like ribbons in the country-side accepted grudgingly an 80...
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When We Were Young
This is an attempt at a poem about being eight in 1962, the last summer before moving onto pastures new. Childhood roads were many like the traces of...
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Moonlight

Even in the darkest dark there is moonlight. You can have shallow dreams of fairy dust and butterflies, but that’s not what life is like. There are...
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Corner Poet

He's from a different town, really Image by Michael Ely licence CC by 2.0 SA, source wikipedia.org
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Wall Decoration

Red brick wall, patch of crumbling mortar: roots take hold, space fills so greenery, sprinkled with pointed bells of blue campanula spills over:...
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We're not in Kansas anymore!

She sat idly, smelling the freshly mown grass in the air, a well-read book on her knee. She had never been so depressed. She had 1 hour out of her...
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Moon-Silver

This road might never end, Like a silver coin, Flipping over and over and over, Spewed by the darkness, Melting back into it, Bright beneath the...
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In the Natural
Wood fires are glaring and currents of air straining as the moon arises across footprints of shade- then a glow begins to create a pathway in...
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Over the Hill
We launched into the edge of Friday’s last evening light at the onset of our tenting plans- after a restful sleep in our canoes upon a small lake...
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JOHN MCLACHLAN (Kojak) 1962-2011
Tony Quinn opened the living-room window and shouted me into Kojak’s house on Lilac Avenue. It had one of those boxy silver wheelchair ramps taking...
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"Willow's Tail" 9

While Martha and Perfidia drew designs in the tea leaves at the bottom of their teacups with their slim spoons Willow jumped down from the stool and...
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The broodmoor social
We all met in the pub In the old kings road A brand new story to be told Passed on by those in the know Though the broodmoor gates Fake tan White van...
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Sun-Light

Sun-light splashing down is full of rhythm dripping leaf to leaf launching from each branch bringing a softness caressed by a current of wind its...
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