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A Murder of Crows

A Murder of Crows Clouds brood under dark skies billowing black as coal dust, hung low, pregnant with rain, thunder rumbles like metal sheets in a...
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Goatie 28
I woke up choking with terror, and felt like a good drink, or even a bad drink like Eldorado, the way a gourmet chef dreams of the perfect meal. Even...
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Blueberry

‘She’s the cutest puppy I’ve ever seen.’ ‘I know, mum.’ Thomas nodded his head, there were tears in his eyes and an emotional rosy flush across his...
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King David said, “Oh, how I love Your law”

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] The rebel’s hearts declines disliked commands … Complacent heart reclines, ignoring sound advice … Awoken hearts incline to hear words giving Life and … Rules that release me to freedom in You. …
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Through Our Country Window
Through Our Country Window Rivulets stream thinly down landscape sheerness falling as a multiplicity of confetti drops bubbling & sprinting onto...
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Goatie 27
Cramp below my right knee, shuttled my torso along the soaking mattress. I twisted and turned and cursed to fuck and back. A memory bobbed to the...
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Ride a White Horse to Banbury Cross! By Alfred N.Muggins Part 1
10/7/21 (30/5/23, 18/6/23) Part 1 Rolling countryside, very pleasant from Daventry into Banbury and Northern Oxfordshire! It started raining of...
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Silas Nash Book 1: Hush Hush Honeysuckle: Chapter 18 (b)

They went back to Paige. ‘You say you never saw Paige again, but you did go back looking for her, didn’t you? Did you find her? This girl very much...
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A Dignified Exit
Everything slowed as he saw the other guy pulling his arm back ready to launch the punch. This was it, decision time. He could bob and weave, duck...
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The Journey
The Journey - By Paul McCann There’s a plane on the runway , there’s a train on a track and theres a car on a freeway with no turning back . There’s...
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The machinery of night

“The fact that humanity still has some future is thanks to me!” Without batting an eyelid, the Dictator informs me of his opinion. He looks at me as...
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The Hungry Years
The Hungry Years - By Paul McCann So many alleyways so many streets , so many places , no one ever eats . Corner shop cafes , coffee and sweet treats...
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Goatie 26
The screech of the prison panic alarm had me going. The sound of running feet. Hardened souls flexed their muscles. I hid under the sheets until they...
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1:4:2 Tarthesis (Part 4)
The shield crackled as it held back the native atmosphere. The dome was completely surrounded, buried in the man-made mountains. They scanned their...
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Black Grape Cat Disorder

Osem our cat is black and white He’ll eat whatever comes in sight He eats all day and he eats all night No bounds exist to his appetite He eats...
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Under Pressure (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 27)

In which Lawrence and Amber find themselves in a tight spot and Frankie is left feeling a little flat!
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Nana and Grampa (c 1950-1960)

Nana: Round and jolly … Grampa: Slow and gentle (slow wink) hen-pecked?…
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agriphila straminella
"... rather plain looking.... Habitat : Grassy areas almost anywhere... ...easily disturbed" with silk-cool shock, they rise pale as ghosts of yellow...
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Our Man in Golubac

As sweat ran down my temples the man at the other end of the telephone line told me that he spoke Bulgarian, which came as a massive relief to me...
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Goatie 25

I kept my eyes on the door. Aware she was behind me, growing like a wave on the sea, but it would be me that left no trace when she was gone. I had...
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