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Microplastics (3/3)

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June's group of friends enacts a strange plan to end off the night. Their plan doesn't quite work as expected, however.

Microplastics (2/3)

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June and July meet up with their friends at the Wilted Angel bar. They get into a conversation that ends up spanning the whole night.

Microplastics (1/3)

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June, her friend July, and her boyfriend Carter all prepare for a night out. Something is troubling June, however, keeping her silent and lost in thought at the beginning of the night.
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Memoir of a Disco Dancer. Prologue. The Bluebells v Tracey Emin. Sunday

Prologue: The Bluebells v Tracey Emin. Sunday Good morning. Come on in. Let’s have one of our pointless conversations, again. But I must warn you, I’...
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Amanderella Gottsnobbler and the Bangolin Tree Chapter 11

Chapter 11. All at Sea. The harbour was brighter than when she had left it, as though the sun had decided to take an interest in her plans...
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Building C - Part Two

On a Friday, six weeks in, Coy was pulling from aisle eight when his scanner died. Battery. He walked to the charging station at the dock, swapped it...
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Building C - Part One

Coy Shumate clocked in at 10:47 PM on a Tuesday in March. Thirteen minutes early because the bus ran ahead of schedule and the break room had coffee...
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The Fat Ones

An excerpt from my (stalled) novel-in-progress The Tallow Man — told entirely from the perspective of a herd of wild Andean guinea pigs ( Cavia...
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Life on Berth

Johnny the bottlenose dolphin nudged his friend, Cider with his smooth snout, ‘Watch out now, the monster is starting up her engines.’ ‘Oh no,...
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Way Down: September–October 1977

The heat had broken by the first week of September, leaving the air heavy and uncertain. The long drought of ’76 was a distant memory now, supplanted...
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Amanderella Gottsnobbler and the Bangolin Tree Chapter 8 real one!

Chapter 8. Spectacle makers call. Amanderella had barely finished writing Algersome is for someone else when the doorbell rang again. Mrs Gaffletter...
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Platypus

A tale of how nature's strangest creature was made from leftovers.
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Amanderella Gottsnobbler and the Bangolin Tree Chapter 10

Chapter 10 Good Intentions. Amanderella did not start with “Where is Burkoland?” That would have been far too obvious, and far too dependent on other...
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Car Slaves

Sitting in the middle of the recent Hari Raya traffic jam, I remember an old cartoon showing a Martian peering into a telescope directed at Earth. He...
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Wembley Praise Day

The seven men had walked down to Wembley Stadium and were standing outside. They had parked their seven seater Vauxhall car half a mile away. One of...
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The Way We Were: Another Brick in the Wall, December 1979

Mr Evans hated me. Mr Evans was the D eputy H eadmaster, but also our M aths teacher, and much to his dismay I was the best at maths in my year,...
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Amanderella Gottsnobbler and the Bangolin Tree Chapter 8

Chapter 9. So where is the Bangolin tree? Amanderella tapped her notebook with her sharpened pencil. “Please tell me as much as you know.” Mr...
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Unearned, Price Paid by Another

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Only Christ does not require the earning of salvation. Who could merit so acquire to pay for their...

Mammy

Mammy - By Paul McCann M oments that are worthwhile A lways bring a warm smile M aking light of the time M emories I will find Y esterdays in our time

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