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Chapter 8 - Around the campfire
Orange glow. That was all Lumen could see. He walked through a fiery landscape. One step at a time. Each one harder than the one before. He couldn’t...
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Smoke-Free For Two and a Half Years
For the last thirty months, I have had nothing to smoke. I said goodbye to cigarettes forever and that is no joke. I stopped smoking on New Year's...
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The Music Box Chapter 6
Chapter Six. Endgame. Prince Rogan and the hunters were overjoyed to see Jack return safely. They wrapped him in a blanket and gave him a hot drink...
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Amanderella and the Mystery of the Crystal Aviary. Chapter 9
Chapter 9 . The Nocturnal Gloom. The moment Amanderella stepped beneath the archway, the Marsh’s damp warmth vanished. The air grew cool and still,...
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Danny ‘Moonshine’ was nineteen once / a short story
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Daniel Bradley was a porter in a city centre hospital for a year before he was sacked. He never challenged his dismissal. Bradley was part of a pool...
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Stone Cold
Stone Cold Sitting motionless in this storm, I’ve walked through many deep waters, dripping with the scars that shaped me as a reminder. It vibrates...
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Apocalyptic
Apocalyptic Jennifer Pickup, 30.06.2026 Heat wave on heat wave Portents everywhere Hailstones like golf balls Unforgiving air A string of dead dogs...
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Banished To Earth Book Two Souls Adrift (26)
Radiating from the center of the solar system, Sol’s light filtered through Earth’s atmosphere and gathered against the great oak’s faint blue force...
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Amanderella and the Mystery of the Crystal Aviary. Chapter 8
Chapter 8. Waterfowl Marsh. The cool draught thickened into a heavy, wet breath that clung to Amanderella’s coat like a determined sponge. The floor...
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The Music Box Chapter 5
Chapter Five. Ingford. Two months later, Jack’s father returned from a long trip to Ingford, a northern town near the mountains. He placed a wrapped...
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My tribute and my tears
My tribute and my tears Budu, a tribal boy denied to enjoy the boons of civilization alien to his tribe and his region. since generations his...
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Somewhere Chapter 3 (Pt 2)
"I heard screaming. I was screaming."
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Somewhere: Chapter 3 (Pt 1)
Monsters are not the worst things to deal with.
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Arrival in Newphonia
Today I bought an Android, it's taken me a while, learning how it operates, makes me want to smile. I've set up all the apps and things, I really...
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Bron-54
Continued from Chapter 53: Bron-53 | ABCtales Bron exited Sloane Square tube, sharp left, heading for Sloane Street. Then she did a double-take, spun...
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Sweet
I always enjoyed a good old rolo, Now and again, the holy polo. Distant memories too, of a minty yo-yo. All great, watching Napoleon Solo.
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The Music Box Chapter 4
Chapter 4. A Clock for a King. Miya insisted on an early night so she could hear more of the story. Once she was tucked in, her mother continued. “...
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Amanderella and the Mystery of the Crystal Aviary. Chapter 7
Chapter 7. The Ground living birds area. A low scuffling noise came from a side passage. Amanderella paused as a shower of seed husks pattered onto...
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Modern Savages
Swathed in primal tattoos and pierced like prostitutes, we are in touch with our tribal and animal selves as well as our tantruming, crayon scrawling...
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Pain is Life
Labor, worry, struggle, and strife: These are pain; These are life. Aching, burning, fatigue and isolation; These are pain; This is life. For as...
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