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Bron-38
Continued from Chapter 37: Bron-37 | ABCtales ‘This is the 08.03 from London Euston to Holyhead. Calling at Rugby, Tamworth, Stafford, Crewe, Chester...
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"Answer Me"
David Whitfield: 11th December 1953 to 7th January 1954
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Ghosted: A Meteorology
Clouds live on average for about ten minutes. His cooking pot is pigeon grey and sturdy with non-scald handles. It still has a glass jar of rusty...
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Lung Biopsy Result
Dear diary...it's Friday 8 th May 2026. I woke this morning in a better mood than yesterday. Last night I was able to sleep through the night, unlike...
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Amanderella Gottsnobbler and the Bangolin Tree Chapter 6
Chapter 6. A Letter arrives. After Mrs Thimblewick left, Amanderella’s mother sat for a long moment in the garden chair, the newspaper clipping...
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The Way We Heard: Way Down
1977 The screened porch was hotter than the kitchen but at least it was hers. Wanda sat on the metal rocker that didn't rock anymore and worked...
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Singing The Blues: January 1957
The frost had settled thick on the rooftops along the terraced row, turning the slates the colour of pewter. It was still dark at half-past seven, on...
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The Nameless Ones
Floating from place to place, free as the wind itself; known unknown travelling networks invisible, roots placed unseen yet life thrives. Every step...
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Black Mushroom Soup
We were walking down the street, on our way home from Shadow Pines Bistro. It was Saturday and our monthly meet up. Myself and three mates, all...
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I heard the cuckoo sing today …
I heard the cuckoo sing today … this welcome gentle sound of spring …
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Sunday Morning
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
‘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
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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