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Less
Less Flee the womb! Bloody, flawless. The cough of breath, the catch of life. Pissed up husband, exhausted wife. Neither here or there. Never more...
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Staunton series Chapter XI -Gold Fever and making plans
Staunton Series- Chapter XI- Gold Fever and making plans for the yard The temperatures start cooling in Vancouver, during October. The leaves of the...
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The Young Man
The young man left his home with only the urge to fall off the end of the earth. Dressed as he was in the worn fibres of his brittle sleeps where he...
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The Book: Chapter 51
You’re next!
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The Book: Chapter 51
Hi. Yes, you, my reader. Don’t be shy. I’m glad you could make it. Let’s not bore each other with names. You’ve read my story. Sad, but true, and let...
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The Book: Chapter 50
The room was sterile, though Mick had tried to make it homely with a few personal touches, but there’s only so much you can do against the colours he...
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SEASONS. Part Two.
Unknown. Confusion. Pain. Mask. Medication. Tests. Scans. Fear. Bloods. Urine. Biopsy. Doctors. Hospitals. Waiting. Lists. Questions. Prayers. Songs...
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SEASONS. Part One.
Many years ago, there was a brilliant song in the charts called, “Seasons in The Sun.” I didn’t really think until now what the song was about...
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"winter was once winter"
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Long in the Tooth
My first extraction since 'Seventy Eight', a sixty-something molar has sealed its fate. The soundtrack music is 'Who Loves the Sun', a Lou Reed song...
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The Late Val Kilmer
Because of Pneumonia, he couldn't survive. Val Kilmer has died at the age of sixty-five. He starred as Batman in "Batman Forever" thirty years ago...
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Staunton Series - Chapter X- Camping along the Fraser River
Staunton Series – Chapter X Camping along the Fraser River. It was Saturday morning. The brothers had the day “off,” to work on their place on the...
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The Book: chapter 49
The choking stench of burned plastic and scorched wood clung to the hairs at the back of his throat, suffocating him despite the breathing apparatus...
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New Directions (32) Updated
Sleep was the last thing on my mind despite it being past 11pm after a tiring day. I already knew my suspicions about Duke Reginald were blown out...
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Heaven From Hell (Part 1)
The furnace of the sun was relentless. Heat rose and shimmered from black tarmac, forming strange wavering mirages, as if the ghosts of millennia...
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Heaven From Hell (Part 2)
The boy’s hand - for he was no more than a boy - began forcing its way between them, searching. Sara could feel the ugly lump of what could only be...
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Hot Cross Buns and Fish and Chips
It’s that one hundred words thing again, covering the second half of March when I was mostly in England.
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forget me not
Limb by limb they say In that ordinary way Heart, diabetes and lack of breath That means death Best keep yakking in that slow way So you won’t wander...
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