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London had Graham on high alert. Everything usually mundane was laced with intimidation: cycle lanes, franchised chicken shops, footpaths under...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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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76. Lady Double Dealer

Cards on the table. The image is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN! Ace. Source is Wikipedia Commons.
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Christmas Train

Kings Cross Station late on a Friday night is not a nice place to be at the best of times. Kings Cross Station late on the Friday night before...

Leggings - update

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By night they come a wandering from the depths of the world to the sirens call,as I lay sleepy at the end of the torture period. Gift giving is their...

Dunking Ink (6)

Firal got an invitation on a white card printed in blue ink that read; ‘invited for a hafla – a function – held to commend the attitude and virtue of...
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Chadpocalypse - Epilogue

Thanks again for reading :) Need to catch up? Check out the collection here: https://www.abctales.com/collection/chadpocalypse Previous Chapter...
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Chadpocalypse - 3:13 Heaven and Hell

Well, here we are, the end of the story. I posted the first chapter of this way back in April of 2017, and two years later, it's finished. There's an...

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