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Grimms 84

Five days after robbing the Securicor van Jaz pulls a mask over booze coloured ruddy red cheeks and face and, hungover, is back at work. Del and...

Birthday Morning

My eyes slowly opened and I looked around my room for the first time of the day. My turtle noisly splashed in his tank next to my bed and I groaned...

Beach walk home

A cold chilling breeze sliced through my body as I walked among the other civilians of the beach. My body shivered and my eyes grew keen to all my...

Final mission report for character CDX-1138

I had successfully uploaded to my voyager armature and after transferring a copy of my matrix to a more mobile armature, I returned to the surface...

Original Draft for CDX-1138

I wanted to pass along an idea I’ve had for my SWN character. I was thinking about playing an AI. My character’s official designation would be CDX-...

On American Medicine: A Case for Care

Today, we face a connundrum regarding American health care, particularly where it intersects with the world of government and politics. Many of us...
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WRITING ON THE MOVE

I recommend the London bus when seeking inspiration; All sorts of human life is there, and folks of every nation. All crammed together, talking,...

Where is the Genius?

Image made with imgflip. by author. The words are Jonathan Swift's. Where is the genius? I can see where the confederacy is...
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Story of the week

A perfect day

It was the winter of 1999. My best friend Richard was working for the Royal Forestry Commission up in Yorkshire. For a time, on a Friday night I...
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Almost on Vacation Blues

Our friends all scattered this summer and vacationed in various parts of Europe. One couple even got engaged in Norway. We don't have any vacation...

Colour Me Perfect

Colour Me Perfect Colour me violet Keep my world in inviolate Colour me lilac Keep my spirit bright Colour me red For you, sons and daughters, I will...
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Ghosts of the Leith Citadel

Ghosts of The Citadel: The Hidden Panel Article to be pitched to Editor of Edinburgh Evening News Tuesday 3rd January 1989 Location: Arden Street,...

Imagine

Just imagine Compassion falling like drops of rain To feel it you need just, step outside And be awashed in the experience, in the emotion You are...

A Happy Heart (Song)

1. Into your kiss all covered in bliss, my lips, they did collide. My heart flew over the rainbow up to the starry skies 2. Into your arms all filled...

A Brief Encounter

The evening warm; your eyes meet mine Your kiss, carnal, unexpected Your sapling tree grew proud in my hand How our sensuality rose As an eel like...

The River Island

Once there was an island in the middle of a river where a witch held a princess as her captive and a prince who wanted to rescue her tried and tried...
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Peggy Seeger

At Kala Sangam in Bradford late Sunday afternoon, one singer sits on a hard chair waiting for the other to take the stage, tune her guitar to the...

Murka

It’s a pretty rough time for some sisters and brothers, That’s why I’m thankful to spends my nights under covers, 300 million others share this...

CDX-1138 Emerging Exploration and First Contact AI

After performing a photonic laser breaking for one thousand, one hundred, eighty-two days and achieving a heliocentric orbit. I analyzed the radio...

In the funny, upturned land of Jumbly-Boo (Song)

1. In the land of Jumbly Boo on their heads, people wear shoes and wear hats upon their feet walking backwards down the street. And the rich man just...

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