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Sorrow
Whit went wrang wae auld age? Forget the good years we accrue Nor the bones of it Punchdrunk minds not renewed But that triple-lock of entitlement...
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The Pop Lorry
The antics of idle boys on hot Summer afternoons have always defied explanation...
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Amanderella and the Mystery of the Crystal Aviary. Chapter 10
Chapter 10. Fair Exchange Is No Robbery. Amanderella watched, thoughtful. Not shine. Not sound. Movement. A feather trembled on a perch. The bird’s...
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The Music Box Chapter 7
Chapter Seven. Annie. Annie found herself standing in a small room. She looked around curiously. It was clearly a workroom. In front of the only...
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Banished To Earth Book Two, Souls Adrift (27)
Silhouette busted out laughing, “I do what I please. You gotta know that by now.” “And you gotta know. That I was joking.” “You were? Stick to...
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Listen
Listen Our ancestral blood flows deep through the Nile, Carrying a sacred journey of the Ndebele. Listen to the thunder call of the Djembe drums...
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My Beautiful Memories
My Beautiful Memories Dreaming with the angels, glorious and omnipotent, We return unto God, for heaven is our home. It leaves a foretaste of what...
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Flow
Flow When I’m ready to be free, I will release And gently let go. As I unfold, I will listen closely to the rhythm Of my energetic flow. Gravity...
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The Way We Heard. Love Was All Around Us.
Love was all around us, apparently. Four Weddings and a Funeral. The Wets had been number 1 for so long, the bass drummed through the brickwork and...
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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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