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Sky High
I feel like riding today the sky lures me on. Clouds ripple and wink as I drive the asphalt houses fleeing by. Signs say only 70 km the thermometer...
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The Door To Heaven
The Door To Paradise By Paul McCann At the end of a straight and long narrow road , there’s a golden haystack with a needle that once had sewed all...
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Thirty Six Part Two.
Thinking of hobbies, I like to do and shops I like to visit, places to eat out, and work, was thinking about all of this today, when I thought about...
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gloaming
Charcoal-soft dark calls, silk wings oil-easy under cinder blue. Llightless, sky heavies falls to tall birch tops' black lace twigs, pillared on slim...
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Winter Comes
Suffused with light white crystals I claim avid curiosity at a sudden change -- from a kaleidoscope of coloured season to a sweeping frosty chill all...
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The Stealth of Great Misfortune
Ah yes... well. It's what's happening, so I can't avoid writing about it. No-one's forcing you to read it though. Image source Pixabay.com public domain.
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Clive James, Farewell.
Mourning the loss of a literary talent.
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Last Night I Fell in Love with my Dead Enemy
Last night I fell in love with my dead enemy. We were stuffed inside a tiny cage and, with no room to move, he had no choice but to enclose me with...
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If You Demand Sex
Men such as yourself are dumb and deserve to have broken necks. When you buy women dinner, you think that you're entitled to sex. When you pay for a...
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Thirty Six.
Thirty-six, today I heard about this number, but what did the number mean? Did it mean someone gets paid £36 an hour? Or did it mean, thirty-six...
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Aquaintanceship
Are they as you think – are you as they imagine? …
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A Family Who Won't Forgive
A man has cancer and he has been given only six months to live. Years ago, he did a man wrong and the parents and siblings are refusing to forgive...
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Money Made Man Mad 3
Gary picked up the letter that the postman had left under the windscreen wiper of the bright green van that was the location of his business. The...
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Seasonal Attraction
Dawn is a highlight of silhouettes in layers of invitation-- sky afire with promise. Deck-stacked lobster pots as slatted barriers bait-primed...
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Scream
Not a piece of writing but a self-indulgent howl, written for entirely self-indulgent therapeutic reasons. Picture: Pixabay Creative Commons
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Cycle Of Life
Muddy – marshy – murky forest floor, squidgy – earthy like browned off mashed potato squelching in November's rain, as storms drench dawn's secrets...
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Ms. Scrooge
Sally Dexter stars as the first ever female Scrooge on a London stage. (Image from Pinterest)
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Thanksgiving
In Celebration of Thanksgiving As Thanksgiving Day approaches, our thoughts turn fondly to family dinners, funny looking turkeys, football games and...
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Goodbye George
‘Goodbye lovely Boy’, John strokes the horse’s neck; breathes him in. ‘We tried everything’, he ruffles his wide hand over the black mane. Asks his...
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The Scream
It’s a wonder that none of them can hear me screaming: Help me, help me, let me out, let me out-out-out-out! Perhaps it’s because the scream is only...
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