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Worlds Apart

When I hear about people having to flee their country because of poverty, wars or cruelty, it makes me feel so sad, but lucky to live here in England...

Soul Circles

The sun was setting. They had reached a stretch of desert. She wasn’t familiar with any deserts in the area. Groups of people were gathered in circles across the stretch as several black cars dotted their outlines. Some looked to be around her age. Older ones seemed to stay close to the cars. "Excuse me?" she asked a woman with long grey bushy hair. "How do I get to-" "Follow your instructors kid and join one o' the circles," the raspy voice said as the woman lit up another cigarette.

Clementine and her Stalker Chapter One

CLEMENTINE and her STALKER Chapter One I was leaning on the railings when I first saw her. Just idly watching the ducks paddle down the stream...

Clementine and her Stalker

A chance encounter on Stamford Meadows one sunny summer morning changes Tony Williams' life in ways he could scarcely have imagined.

Captured for Freedom!

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] I’m bound to my Lord, so now I am free! – I’m free of the hold, the old misery of gripping temptations, sin’s harsh slavery: a servant of Jesus has real liberty! …
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Summer Comes

Suffused with morning’s gleam I rest upon a back porch where snowy remnants melt away in last days of huddled crystals once rampant as a runaway kite...

Head I lose, tail I lose

Head I lose, tail I lose “Head I lose, tail I lose” Me, the recalls oft amuse the recalls of all my losses to my elder brother over tosses. The craft...
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Adopt a Tiger (1)

Susan was in the kitchen when the door rang. She wasn't expecting anybody, nobody much called round these days, so she didn't hurry. When she got to...
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Disgraceful Behavior

Before Donald Trump was inaugurated, some people made a commercial that I found to be disgraceful. On this commericial, some actors asked at least...
Cherry

Kids’ Contrasts

The giraffe is tall, the fly is small, the sun gives light – so it’s dark at night. The snail is slow – but watch the cars go – fast! – keep away!...
Cherry

May 8th 1945

May 8th 1945 the nation filled the streets waving flags in celebration - at last the bloody war was won brass bands belted God Save The King, while...
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Anyway, plagiarism

People only see what you want them to see, that's the problem with psychosis you are convinced that people see what you don't want them to see, it's...
Cherry

Hangin' Around (6)

Previous Chapter 6. Maggie’s Revenge Herb Withers watched in horror as Jerimiah raised his hitherto unto used pistol. The barrel was pointed right at...

Snappy

On a clear-sky late morning, in fact almost noon, there is excitement in the air. Lunch is waiting. Working at the Home for Aged in Petrolia, has its...

Anyway

Remembering now, after thirty years of antipsychotic medication and finally being well enough not to need it.How I stood in Sarah's mothers allotment...
Cherry

Latest Journal entry for "living in the time of the Corona"

Latest journal entry for "Living in the Time of Corona" Friday, September 18, 2020 It is a cool, fifty degrees, with brilliant sunshine, here in WNY...

Knave-Go-By

Straggle of semi-rural homes on the lee side of Camborne, the west lane pointing down the peninsula towards Land's End. Dog does somersaults with its...
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Cherry

Black Dog On The Skyline

Black dog on the skyline ridge in the flat grey afternoon, soundless in the hills going south. Padfoot mimicking the walker on the gravel path at the...
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Cherry

The Unwritten Notebook

The open pages are an invite to write, or are they? Some hesitate, beware the bear trap book. Blank pages may bring terror to the unwary, like the...
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