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Flashback
Memories flood in from meeting old friends at a funeral
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Old Walls - Part 5
‘It’s funny how the brain works isn’t it, Roz. Memories locked away, sequestered, I don’t mean important memories, just mundane things, details, you...
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The Doll's House Chapter 5,
Chapter Five. Bilton, Darrowmere, and Hestlewick. Bilton was a small town, not far from the edge of the Dark Forest. Rows of neat cottages lined the...
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The Ashton Road Gang Chapter 6 June.
Chapter Six. Fits. While the rest of the gang had to make do with second-hand or home built bikes, Simon had a brand new, drop-handle bar racing bike...
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Two Faces of Justice
I walk the crooked streets of a world filled with beings that have devoured more of my kind than the beasts of the fields. For such cruelty, are...
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The Bungalow-21
Continued from Chapter 20: The Bungalow-20 | ABCtales Chapter 21 It was no golden evening Clouds ramped up against the ridge of the hill. Crows...
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Our Metronome
He walks, our metronome, like a well-made poem past our kitchen window each day, 12.20 one way, 3.15 back again, surprisingly light on his feet and...
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Keep On (4)
For a while he only held the microphone. Under the hiss, on the other end, he could hear the room the man was in. A chair took weight and gave it...
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Frankenplot - The Gentleman's Wardrobe Part 2
As their son’s wedding approached, two things happened. Ian and Sylvia began struggling to sleep well. They considered the reasons why; latent...
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The Ashton Road Gang Chapter 5. May Part 2.
For the next ten days we saw nothing of Mrs. Blaggard. I overheard Mum and Stew’s mother talking about how bad tempered the old woman was becoming. "...
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The Ashton Road Gang Chapter 5. May
Chapter Five. Roller Skates and Boards. I was in trouble again. Not with my parents this time, but with old Mrs. Blaggard. "You wait till I see your...
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The Doll's House Chapter 4.
Chapter Four. The Search Begins. Sophrayni left the clerk’s office with the names of five towns echoing in her mind: Wilford, Bilton, Darrowmere,...
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Poem IV · The Bill of Sale
Poem IV · the one who supplies and profits Bill of Sale The bystander world: the ones who look away in Poem III, and what they do with their hands...
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Whitechapel Via Monto
I had tasted exhaustingly distinguished and mad company before in Dublin and elsewhere during Patrick’s travels with the Gaelic League. Didn’t he...
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the hitchhiker
on route 11 standing alongside the road you will find a man a man with no name address unknown he carries no wallet no license no photograph no proof...
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Dear Vixen
Vixen, I have the most incredible news. He’s decided to fight for us. He promised he’ll never see her again and that he wants to rebuild everything...
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Keep On (3)
He said it a third time, word for word, and let go of the bar. The hiss came back. He had begun to hear things in it. A rise and fall like breathing...
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The Silly Season
The Silly Season In watching the nightly news, I notice by the content of the ads, that the silly season has firmly arrived. It is that particular...
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cotton
Stir before first light Last until last light A man forgotten Hard pew on a Sunday Abraham and Isaac The only sitting Preacher say black man be free...
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Bloody, Brawling Business CH12
(havent yet edited this chapter so there may be some slight changes later) “The king of Bame,” Scarlet said under her breath. She let out a soft...
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