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Fifth Row from the Front (1)

The road came into the forest twelve miles out and did not come back out of it for a long time. It was two lanes with no shoulder and the pines stood...
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Spellbound Chapter 17.

Chapter Seventeen. Calizone’s Story. “I’ve never told anyone this,” said Calizone. “But if it helps you make a sensible choice, then fair enough.”...
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Amanderella and the Casket Mystery Chapter 12.

Chapter Twelve. Hell hath no fury. The afternoon light was beginning to fail, turning the London sky purple, by the time Amanderella reached the...
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The Bungalow-13

Continued from Chapter 12 Hawke reached over the punch the off switch on the bleeping alarm clock, then stopped himself. It would be a bit...
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La Vie En Nose

This Sort of Thing - a whimsical journal writing undertaking. August 2026 (Part 3 of 3).

8.1 Caprice Dinner

Shina climbed up to the terrace that afternoon to the sound of soft, rich music pulsing from powerful Bose speakers. By the edge of the swimming pool...
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Crisps And Melodies

Dry the rain Over and over again A bag of crisps in the glove box One day we’ll share them Pass them back and forth Lick the powder from our fingers...
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Amanderella and the Casket Mystery Chapter 11.

Chapter Eleven. Explanations. Under the sharp-eyed supervision of Matron Nipp, Terkins was whisked away to the "Special Admissions Bathhouse." It...
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Spellbound Chapter 16.

Chapter Sixteen. Calizone and Sophie. Sophie took the goats as far up the valley as she could. The air was cooler here, the stream narrower, the...
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Money for the Circus 15

More of this. More of what? You say. Very well. Image is author's own.
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She Had Me In Stitches

This Sort of Thing - a whimsical journal writing undertaking. August 2026 (Part 2 of 3).
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(Too) Many Happy Returns?

Josiah and Archibald muse about the ageing process.
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Spellbound Chapter 15.

Chapter Fifteen. Denied entrance. Bycliff was only a small town, but it had a coaching inn, and the landlady was delighted to welcome such important...
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Amanderella and the Casket Mystery Chapter 10.

Chapter Ten. A Sticky problem. “Let’s hope he won’t find the Gin,” said Nellie. “Mrs Terkins came and told us to carry on making the ordinary...
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Oh Ambassador You Are Really Scaring Us

This Sort of Thing - a whimsical journal writing undertaking. August 2026 (Part 1 of 3).
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7.1 An Explicit Engagement

The next morning, Shina asked Rosa if she could borrow Zanat and another girl from her department to host a reception where liquor would be served...
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Good Buddy (4)

He was awake at nine on the Saturday, which had not happened since the spring. The house had a light in it he was not used to at that hour, and he...
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Good Buddy (3)

There was frost on the windshields on the nineteenth. He came in off shift a little after seven and the whole street had it, a white bloom across...

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