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I heard the cuckoo sing today …

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 07 May 2026

I heard the cuckoo sing today … this welcome gentle sound of spring …

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Sunday Morning

By Twelvestopsandhome on Thu, 07 May 2026

She had some choices to make, and not just what’s for dinner-cheesy pasta as always when there were far more pressing matters at hand. What is she...

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Amanderella Gottsnobbler and the Bangolin Tree Chapter 5

By Eric Marsh on Thu, 07 May 2026

Chapter 5. The Lecture. Amanderella looked at her lecture notes and slides. “I need a map of the Amazon. My own maps, though accurate, are muddy,...

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Teeth of Many Colours

By Turlough on Thu, 07 May 2026

All the things I saw, did, said, tasted, felt or read about during the latter fifteen days of April.

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The Way We Heard: Singing the Blues

By Eric Marsh on Wed, 06 May 2026

This short story was inspired by Singin the Blues (Tommy Steele) It was written a long time after that , but for some reason the song was played on...

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Bron-37

By Ivan the OK-ish on Wed, 06 May 2026

Continued from Chapter 36: Bron-36 | ABCtales “Bit of a bummer, the landlord finding out about Petouche, like that,” said Grace. “I mean, we always...

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Amanderella Gottsnobbler and the Bangolin Tree Chapter 4

By Eric Marsh on Wed, 06 May 2026

Chapter 4. Wealth beyond Imagination. Amanderella set out the next morning in her expedition clothes, which were clean but unmistakably practical...

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Out in the Styx

By GlosKat on Wed, 06 May 2026

Like most women I imagine, I have often had males, of all ages, offer me their seat on the train or bus, or offered to carry my suitcase up/down...

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T-Cut on the A-Bomb

By Turlough on Wed, 06 May 2026

All the things I saw, did, said, smelt or read about during the first fifteen days of April.

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The World That Was

By Starfish Girl on Tue, 05 May 2026

‘You have probably read in your history books about what in olden times were called the seasons’ The children nodded their heads. ‘There were four of...

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Ghosts

By drkevin on Tue, 05 May 2026

I remember the jumps of Evel Kneaval. And there was once a cheese with a living weevil. Never a week without receiving a tearful ear full. And...

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Mother of the light

By mcscraic on Tue, 05 May 2026

Mother of the light by Paul McCann Mother of the light the sun shimmered and then it spun around in the sky when you came, like the herald of a...

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May Weather Haiku

By mark p on Tue, 05 May 2026

Five days into May- Blossoms falling like snowflakes- Still the sky is grey!

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'How Bloody Much'

By Makis on Tue, 05 May 2026

The tale of a Yorkshireman stunned at the petrol pump.

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Amanderella Gottsnobbler and the Bangolin Tree Chapter 3

By Eric Marsh on Tue, 05 May 2026

Chapter 3. Shopping. Amanderella rose early the next morning, as explorers do, and looked over her clothes like a captain checking his crew before a...