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Habits
Good evening, your highness. How is your sleep now in winter? When leafless walnut trees show their smooth gray bark, Effectively when all the trees...
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Aleph
To be old and white And not ashamed to walk in the rain with a black umbrella, To be obviously painted in white Like an old-fashioned mill, So white...
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Warchild (part 2 of 2)
This is part 2 of this story, read part 1 here --- For the following two days his mum does not go to work. She tells Keavie she is staying home to...
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Warchild (part 1 of 2)
It is almost dawn, the garden a low orange from the weak spring sun. Keavie tiptoes over the piles of wet leaves smeared across the paving slabs, the...
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Flight Path
We took flight together - left the others stranded.
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The Year Harold Wilson "Saved My Ass"
This Wiki commons image might be a little too controversial for ABC (?)
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Elysium
Chapter one - Hearthstead Before even gaining full consciousness and opening my eyes I can tell that it is early, there is no sound of movement, no...
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Eejit knickers
Walking past the charity-shop window, I saw my past for sale hanging up by the ear. Special Offer—£1. It was too good a bargain to miss. I breenged...
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The Fall and Rise of...Archibald Thurble?
The fourth part of the trilogy (yes, yes, I know...just go with it!) in which Horace makes an exit and Archibald watches developments.
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Fellowship of Competitors
We have been fortunate to take many tours and cruises during our retirement. The travel adventures are both educational and pleasure-filled. You get...
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1949
An end of war, blossoming joy, as waiting girl and returning boy could now be wed and optimism in every heart viewed the years ahead: work hard,...
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Spook Dog (next bit)
The htis hits the proverbial
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The hidden painting chapter 4
The interview...but for what position?
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1972 A New Direction
I took thie picture of 31 018 in York Rail Museum, Forty years previously I actually drove it whilst working on the footplate at Stratford
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Time solves everything
As Sadie got out of her warm bed to make a visit to the little girls room on a mild night in June, she never imagined that her life was about to...
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Love Overcomes
Love Overcomes By Paul McCann Well I know that its not easy but you’ll won’t hear me complain , I won’t cast my anger in His name I’m walking through...
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Why Does It Always Rain In Graveyards?
Some believe that love can transcend time Why does it always rain in graveyards? Why does it always rain in graveyards? Of course, the reality is...
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Fact truths, or ideas
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] “There are no absolutes” – some say: “just choose whatever suits – today. Be happy in your chosen way and...
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Everywhere to Go
The street no place for a homeless lady- kicked out not a delight for a wayward teen long ago- still strutting independence.
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