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The Donaldson controversy (6)

By Terrence Oblong on Tue, 21 Apr 2026

The next day, I was expecting Wurlizer to tear my essay apart, but we were instead greeted by yet another lecturer. A woman this time. “Good...

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Ridgeline: Part Eighteen: What She Carries

By SoulFire77 on Tue, 21 Apr 2026

Fragments. Scott's face in the hospital hallway — not the 6:30 face, not the flat emptied face of a man who'd driven a truck for twelve hours. A...

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Ridgeline - Part Seventeen: Gray Light

By SoulFire77 on Tue, 21 Apr 2026

The light came without announcement. Not a sunrise. Not the golden spilling that the word "dawn" promises. A grayness — slow, directionless, the sky...

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Ridgeline - Part Sixteen: Stay

By SoulFire77 on Tue, 21 Apr 2026

The dog crawled onto her legs. She felt it happen — the weight shifting, the damaged body dragging itself forward from its position against her back...

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A Tweed Coat Night

By mark p on Tue, 21 Apr 2026

It's a tweed coat night, an Irish stout night, the place is hoaching, the craic is great, you sing '29 Dollars and an Alligator Purse', It's Waits'...

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Gran's House Haiku

By mark p on Tue, 21 Apr 2026

Cold cracked windowsill Plastic flowers stand still in swan shaped china vase. ( On recalling my gran's house in the 1970s)

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Lerwick Haiku

By mark p on Tue, 21 Apr 2026

Shining silver sea Early morning, Lerwick Bay Seal swimming shallows.

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Bron-33

By Ivan the OK-ish on Tue, 21 Apr 2026

Continued from Chapter 32: Bron-32 | ABCtales Grace tapped gently on the door of Georgetta’s third-floor flat. “Come in … door’s not locked.” Her...

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The Constant Birth

By Frances Macaulay Forde on Tue, 21 Apr 2026

Another one from my 1968 notebook and one of my sketches done in 2021. The Constant Birth In times of toil and days like these with summers sun and...

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McCalliog and his hens (4)

By Terrence Oblong on Tue, 21 Apr 2026

I phoned Tilly straight away, as soon as I left Meirson’s. “The McCalliog?” she said. “What’s a McCalliog?” “The painting. The painting of ducks that...

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Chapter 4: The Journey Begins.

By Eric Marsh on Tue, 21 Apr 2026

Chapter 4: The Journey Begins. Amanderella counted the coins in her purse and quickly realised she was going to need more than she had raised with...

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Ridgeline - Part Fifteen: The Reckoning

By SoulFire77 on Tue, 21 Apr 2026

The cold had a texture. Not the absence-of-heat cold from earlier — the goosebumps, the prickling, the muscles clenching. That cold had been the body...

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Ridgeline - Part Fourteen: After

By SoulFire77 on Tue, 21 Apr 2026

The flashlight was on the ground where he'd dropped it. She could see the beam — orange now, not the white it had been, the batteries dying, the cone...

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The Donaldson Controversy (5)

By Terrence Oblong on Tue, 21 Apr 2026

Watson’s position as best-in-class didn’t last, however. For the next lesson we were greeted by yet another change of lecturer. “Where is Prof...

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The Donaldson Controversy (4)

By Terrence Oblong on Tue, 21 Apr 2026

“Variable quality,” Prof Ambrose addressed the class. “Very variable quality.” He was feeding back on our first essays. “Watson, you’ve quoted large...

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Gunnar Ross Chapter 4

By cwispywhiskey on Mon, 20 Apr 2026

Chapter 4 An Unexpected Guest Gunnar swung open the door. “ Old man, I need answers!” he snapped. The old man pushed Gunnar back inside. “ And you’ll...

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