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Thicker than water
Moving house, packing things from the loft I find a picture, wood-framed, snug beneath the dust of years. Under the light and polished glass pencil-...
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For The Rest Of Our Days
For The Rest Of Our Days by Paul Mc Cann Where ever she goes and what ever she says , she’s the love of my life in so many ways , i t ’ s not for a...
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The Hitman - Chapter 3
THE HITMAN Chapter Three Hilda’s Off The List Clouds gathered over Clatpon like vagrants of a dark world looking for the sun . Their unwanted...
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Isolation
A boon or a bane.
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Tube (Part 2 of 2)
The next station raced into existence. Holborn. The old goat sleeping next to Graham snorted and woke herself up with a start. Graham looked at her...
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Tube (Part 1 of 2)
London had Graham on high alert. Everything usually mundane was laced with intimidation: cycle lanes, franchised chicken shops, footpaths under...
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Distance
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] How easily we drift or take offence at those we used to care for, growing rift – it’s hard the gap to close...
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Love Is A Tender Wound
Love is a tender wound. Always vulnerable. Always scared. Pity the man then That begs she look his way. Pity the girl Who coyly glances With dreams...
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'Ach Well...'
ambivalence, there's a lot of it on both sides... Image source wiki commons. Licence CC-SA 3.0 Photographer Gil Cavalcanti
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Smoke Free - Part V
I'm proud of myself and I have something to say. I quit smoking last year on the 3rd of May. It was one year ago when I smoked for the last time...
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Dunking Ink (7)
18 th Friday, 7.30 pm, thirteen days to deadline, Firal and Rosa tried to get a cab and failed. They started to walk towards Cosmo Tower almost a...
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Aversion Therapy
These are the things that keep me up at night, all stitched together . I will say these words twice daily, gently, and watch them lose their power or...
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True tales from an austere kingdom - the great pandemic
During the great pandemic the poor and wretched were more wretched than usual. With many factories closed and most trades severely reduced, the poor...
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Hope In The Distance
Peering from behind lace curtains, maintaining steps into serenity, marooned here with canvas, brushes, paint, some attention to detail, excitement...
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Break the Child: Chapter Six: Grounded
Chapter Six: Grounded I am grounded and it’s so unfair. Mel King was with me at dinner, and Sal, and Jenny. We were waiting in the lunch queue. Mel...
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In A World Gone Mad: 2 May 2020...2
We had a bad night, wandering, confusion, shouting—and that was just me. It lasted all night. He hadn’t settled by the early hours, and the household...
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In a World Gone Mad: 2 May 2020
Saturday: 2 May 2020 Bat Shit Crazy: dialed to the max. Yesterday was a bad day, today is worse—so far. Mid afternoon yesterday Arthur had his fifth...
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Agnostic faith
I veer often one way or the other Often Between faith and reason For did the angry God of Abraham Make men in his image ? Or is God but a fleeting...
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