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The queen is dead

I was in England for my wife's birthday, Down the West End. We brought our lovely daughter, And her best friend. We wandered into a busy pub, Just...

Cruel see

Can't you come and see your mum No I can't they won't let me come Dad is here, he is nearly done I'm glad mum, but they let only one Mum, tell me you...

On Our Way - Video

I just got over a bout of bronchitis and I'm a little breathy, but good. This is what you write after a week of isolation. Ha. Good health and love...

Anyway

Anyway, nowadays when I put one hundred percent into something I don't feel like people think I'm making enough effort
Cherry

Forever Young

A sequel-prequel-companion to The Eternity Garden. *************************************************** I look at her, frozen beneath glass, all the...
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Propaganda! Unprecedented! Surreal!

What a week It’s been! That’s an understatement!! All that is happening now is stranger than fiction, if anyone had said, last year, that in March...
Cherry

Larry and Mick and the Purple Pandemic

"People are still getting haircuts and using tanning booths!," said Larry, as he burst through the front door. "Don't they know there's an apocalypse...
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The Princes of the Dark Ages At The Seaside (Part One)

The warband has stopped off from its ravaging and gone to the beach for the day. They have forgotten their swimming costumes and don’t own a beach...
Cherry

Pete's Sunflower (a villanelle)

There have to be some benefits to life-out-there closing down! Hello again everyone! Sorry to have been so gone for so long! Here's a poem I've been meaning to write since the passing away of my dear neighbour last year...x
Cherry

Unprecedented

Alan pulled the blinds back and looked down at the empty street below. Six -ten in the morning and the road outside was traffic free, not even the...

Diamonds Underground - Chapter 6

Diamonds Underground Chapter 6 Wrong End Of The Stick Locked up like a criminal his head had fallen. The false charges that were fabricated by police...

Steady on lads !

“Steady as she goes, please” Every day we see displays of short temper that are becoming more frequent. It might be an extended blast of a car horn,...
Cherry

Strange Beings in Strange Times

Something changed. People crawled out from under rocks, Wiped the moss from their heads And headed out alone or in choleric pairs, To where they...
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Cherry

First Cut

Dear diary...17 th March 2020. Body's gone into battle, head engulfed in what feels like swampy moss, becoming clogged among this chaotic scene, like...
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LIving in the time of the Red Death

Living in the time of Red Death It is Friday, the 20 th of March, in the year of our Lord, 2020. We are in the second week of a massive assault by...
Cherry

35. Third Finger, Left Hand

Gabe aims too low... Image: No known copyright issues...

What is in a Name?

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What is in a Name? By Shane Scott Big Face drove a big truck pulling a big trailer down a big road through a big storm on his way to make a big...

The cell

A long narrow room, With bars on the door, It smells like damp, Water on the floor. The exposed brick, The darkened light, I look around, And see in...

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