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Upperkirkgate Chapter One: That Wilfully Seeks Her Own Salvation, Part 3

“Eh?” he said, looking genuinely puzzled. “Well, I’m seeing my tutor tomorrow about passive and active emotion in Hamlet … should keep me busy till...

Upperkirkgate Chapter One: That Wilfully Seeks Her Own Salvation, Part 2

“Neither am I,” he said with a brief glance at his watch. “We seem to have missed afternoon classes, not that we’ll be needing many this year.” “We...

Upperkirkgate Chapter One: That Wilfully Seeks Her Own Salvation, Part 1

“Your secret’s safe with me,” said Alison to Jack as they sat down at a table in a coffee shop. It also sold books on the street called Upperkirkgate...
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Holidays

I felt very lucky as a child to have three holidays a year. We always went to the south coast -Bournemouth, Poole, Swanage, Sandbanks, Highcliff. Two...

Love's Sacrifice

Let the brief of proudest cry On the soul of God we lay Messenger of breath in magnolia light, To her arms we kneel and pray. To the shrieking ghouls...

Beginning

A young married couple struggle to get by on one wage. They are renting a one roomed wooden dwelling called The Retreat. A baby lies in the corner,...
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QN 4 2DAY

QN 4 2DAY I found her today​ ​torn apart brutally ​disembowelled, disavowed, disillusioned Clinging to the kerb ​with all enthusiasm ​on a slide to...
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Hugo and the unexpected text message

Hugo hated the unexpected. Like when you were in a restaurant and ordered a meal, only to be told that the dish you wanted was off the menu. That...

Monday blues

Monday blues Driving home early morning Night shifts are done People rushing no one’s talking Faces full of gloom Grey skies raindrops falling...
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Poem of the week

Not a Shakespearean Sonnet

Performance poet put sounds in mouths to spit across the stage in firey streams, living dreams, from ancient times, making shadow shapes on shifting...

Always in my heart

U was my heart u was my soul U was everything to me From that first day when we met I knew we was meant to be U made me smile u made me laugh we was...
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Valencia

En abril, aguas mil. (It rains a lot in April.)

The BC Adventure 19

Vesuvius October 15, 1921 Dear Mummy and Daddy and Dorothy, Mark has had a busy week. He and Cecil went over to the Scott's farm and helped kill...

Thank You

Hello! I am the author of these fine stories and I am happy that my stories have been read collectively over 500 times! Idk how people actually put...
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moses

Smite the dust of the land with thine rod which was a serpent And the poverty tourists shall dribble and drool over that land Where flies shall tease...

Dance Upon The Wind (Song)

1. Little, lonely leaf and I; thrown about by life, we fly upon the whims of wind and chance but still, the leaf, it seems to dance. 2. Little leaf,...
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The Most Northerly Ice Cream Van in Britain

There is a cautionary tale told among mobile ice cream retailers; one that has been handed down from father to son for generations about a tragic...

Time

You’re watching yourself in the mirror and seeing the setting sun

Leggings - the makings of a Royal...

True christian forgiveness, and the makings of a Royal...

My Blind Eyes

Even with blind eyes I would put on no other disguise I would see you from a new point of view But my vision would not be askew Free and wild like...

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