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Recognizing A Hero In Addict (6 cont& half of 7)
My parents had made it clear that I wasn't welcome in their home, unless of course I wanted to accept my Father's physical beatings and Mother's...
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Recognizing A Hero In Addict (chapter 6)
The first time I got black out drunk was on New Year's Eve of 1999 into 2000; I was 12. I was with my parents and one of my older brothers. I've...
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Recognizing A Hero In Addict (Chapters 4&5)
4. People don't want to believe there's actually an opposing force so strong it threatens to dismantle the very foundation of one of the oldest, most...
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The Songwriter Chapter 9 Part 1
The Songwriter Chapter Nine Part 1 Back At The Crossroads A songwriters life is not an easy life, bringing music and songs to the streets . Many...
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Danger and Devotion
Crazy days. You reach the station, and you can see that everything is as it shouldn’t be. Even as the shuttle lands, you can see a difference in the...
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Camp Echo - Chapter 1 (part one)
Introduction Boys and girls come out to play, The moon does shine as bright as day; Come with a hoop, and come with a call, Come with a good will or...
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Quarantine Bridge
She walks across the bridge every day. It’s the path between her home and the market. Each day, be it windy or sun-filled, wet, frozen, wild, grey,...
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When
I was a Boy Scout of eleven and tenting often 6 am morning meant charging to the lake shore chilled toes and other parts needing a good wash and swim...
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Karno's barmy army
Fred Karno's best comedians were in America when war broke out. Karno had hoped to break the American theatre market, but inadvertently sent over the...
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Recognizing A Hero In Addict
Recognizing A Hero In Addict How I won my life and death battle with addiction, but am still fighting to change the narrative on a war waged by it's...
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The Songwriter - Chapter 8
The Songwriter Chapter Eight Return To Shore On a cold night in Blarney Street I was taken in from the rain by a tenant of a building who saw me...
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Present
Today's gift wrapped in light. Birdsong as foil ribbon unspools, bright slipping trills tying time together. The woods' snowdrops have come! Beside...
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Thomas Wilson
Thomas Wilson Thomas Wilson washed his hands in the sink for the fifth time and dried them on his jeans. He could fill a bucket of hot water and soap...
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Dancers in the Dark part 1
Dancers in the Dark I could have started; it was a dark and stormy night. Or a full moon played hide and seek amongst the clouds. But it wasn’t. It...
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Dancers in the dark part 2
As the moon cleared the garden wall he pulled himself up the gate until he was standing, legs week and shaking but standing as he looked around...
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Leaving Europe - All At Sea
Defying geography, this country has set sail across the Atlantic, figuratively at least, into the flabby embrace of an impeachable president soon to...
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The First Time
I dared to drink coffee and it burned into my soul -- nasty and harsh. I was only eight or ten at the time. Continuous activities earned me King of...
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The Songwriter - Chapter 7 Part 2
The Songwriter Chapter Seven Over The Waves Part 2 People passed me by on the street and they wished me all the best and I exchanged another greeting...
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In the woods ... WHAT? In the woods!!
I actively encourage the recurring dream of a cartoon bear wearing my pyjamas. He's part of the family now. At first it was just a dream of a bear...
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A poetry collection has to use the word 'water.'
Spooky Water Scientific Water Austrian Water Not My Water Cylindrical Water Waterfall Water Sunshine Water Bodily Water Secret Water Wellington Water...
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