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Tanned to Perfection
The Salon looked innocuous enough. It sat quietly in the corner of a small suburban Plaza. " New Age Tanning Salon" read the corporate logo, in large...
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Fresh Heir?
We went on a ramble. Ate the occasional bramble. Up a rise did scramble. Then took a carnal gamble.
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Use it well!

God made me an ear and with it I hear such music, friends’ speech. Do I listen, consider remember and ponder when …
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Within The Harmony
From an oversized lily pad a bullfrog croaks his freedom aside a small lake amid a flood of moonlight creating a path of reflection. The forest is in...
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"marooned"
I needed time away. Vacation. I wanted to do something different so I went on a road trip. Alone. I didn't know where I was going. I just drove by...
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Expanding The Mind

Stirring impressions flood gallery, imagination now silently engaging; not on canvas...but with words, art dips and dives; passions reflect an...
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Solar Heatwave Changing

The IP 'Heatwave' got me thinking about how narrow my tolerances are and how extreme the temperatures are even within our Solar System
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Heatwave

Sticky, sweaty, humid, heat, ice-cold drinks and cotton sheet, garden sprinklers, fans just blow warm air flow … waiting, drooping … a draft of cool...
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The world we live in

What would the universe try to tell me? Did I do something wrong? Should I be protected from something? Am I too headstrong? I cannot get the...
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SHOWTIME!

It's not about the theatre. Image made by me at canva.com
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Today’s TV
BBC1 5.15: The Wom Show – Barry Wom opens a hairdressers 6.00 – 7.00: Squirrels in the Wirral – In an attempt to make wildlife sound interesting by...
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1:4:3 Republic (Part 4)
The last few metres to the foyer were longer than they should have been. Lore didn’t know why but their body just didn’t want to move. Every step was...
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Clothes for Friendless Men
These are the clothes for friendless men, creased as their faces but beyond their grief, these relics not venerated but on display and sale, in all...
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Freshening!

Blowing, freshening, blustery gusts bracing, racing, whisking, frisking, decluttering clinging, clogging cobwebs – cast out fast by whooshing blast...
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Sailing (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 34)

Finally, on the ferry and time for rest and relaxation...for some, anyway!
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4 Proof

I closed the laptop lid. The battery would run out in 15 minutes. The auto shut-down would kick in first, as it had been two pints since Vint had...
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Look-Look UP
I can feel the startle of sky this night and how the day is diminished by millions of pinpoints of light – and how its beauty & diamonds delight...
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Main course, dessert and lavatory.
On the last night of our holiday in Sligo we ate out at a restaurant. When we started to peruse the menu my wife went into a fit of the giggles and...
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Moods of Ocean and River

Swelling, surging, heaving … placid calm … Hustling, bustling narrow stream tumbles into gentle Monnow which …
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