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Break The Child: Chapter Four: A Huge Fight
Chapter Four: A Huge Fight When I went to school, everybody was asking me what was wrong with me yesterday. I told them about the headache, and they...
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74. Hot Tamales (They're Red Hot)
Even a genius can have an off day. Image author's own.
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73. 99 Luftballons
Go on, admit it, you weren't surprised... Image source Wikipedia. Licenc CC BY SA 4.0 Photographer Brad Verter
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Dunking Ink (4)
Soda was a cop, a sergeant, though he wasn’t in the Fraud and Forgery Department. He took the banknote to the police lab and quickly obtained...
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The Eye Doctor
Lionel gets an lucrative offer from an old man to have free eye surgery but at what cost?
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The House at the Edge of the Deep Blue Sea
In the past 30 years, I have lived in 25 different houses, which means I have moved 25 times, 6 times in the last 5 years alone. I am now at the...
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IVAN'S POEM
A terrible thing is happening today A terrible plague that won't go away Corona virus is the trouble Increasing at the double People all over in...
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Signs of Spring 11)
Promise of berries for winter red, for feeding the cold-weather birds, but some will be picked with their prickly leaves – broad waxy leaves for...
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The Company Runs Itself
Since the Lockdown started, what was it, four, maybe five weeks ago, Alan had lost all track of time , each day seemed to merge into the next. Like...
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The Great Plague of Milan
Then and now. Image: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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Chadpocalypse - 3:11 Play the Game
3:11 Play the Game Waves of unreality washed over Chad as he watched James dragging a cornhole set into The Devil’s study from a concealed closet. It...
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Pad Life 10: Monstrosities
The Dark Shadows are rising. Or maybe I've just broken my glasses. Picture: Pixabay Creative Commons
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Father Mulrooney Makes a House Call - A Craven Danger Mystery
Lord, get me through the next thirty minutes and I’ll never again rage like a lunatic when I find Sister Helen in my whiskey cabinet. Also, let me...
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72. Domenique
Something does happen. No, really. And you'll get a free earworm again, too. Image Licence: CC-SA 3.0. Photographer: Quist. Source: Wikipedia Commons.
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Break the Child: Chapter Three: The Worst Day of My Life
Chapter Three: Worst Day of My Life I can’t stop crying. I’m not going back to school. I’m not, not ever and they can’t make me. It’s all my mum’s...
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In a World Gone Mad: Wednesday 29 April 2020
Wednesday 29 April 2020 Max Over three years this entry would have been drip-fed over time, but I don’t have time because it’s already been, used and...
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Covid 19- Running Out of Castard and Mustard
29/April/2020 Dear Readers, We went through my birthday, my husband's birthday and Easter in quarantine. We bit our tongues and remained...
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Which Witch Was It?
Wendy was not an ordinary twelve-year-old, in fact she was extraordinary. She knew things, lots of things, more things than most would, or even could...
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The Durian Hunter
Roger hunts for durians in an abandoned army camp but he doesn't realise someone is hunting him.
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