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'Mourning Orders …' (Poetry Monthly)

… attended to on receipt of Telegram …’*

Roses

Blood is red bruises are blue nothing like violence screams, I love you roses are dead violet eyes suit you nothing like silence whispers, I love you...

Into the Shadows

The street was empty. Empty of cars, people, animals; empty of life. I walked along grey pavement, under a grey sky, watching the grey bin bags...
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Castle Pillock 7

Radio Gaga: The Dowager has a birthday, God moves in mysterious ways, and we remember Blueberry Hill.
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The Weight of Snow

We started talking about nappies today...how he'd been such a dab hand at folding them...

Ebenezer Scrooge Was a Jolly Old Soul !

Scrooge was really a jolly old soul! As Christmas time approached us, in the 1950’s, we always looked with great anticipation to watching the 1951...

Liberation

Liberation Things looked bleak. When beauty is but a burden rather than a blessing and winter looms an icy fate as punishment for vanity, that isn't...
Gold cherry
Story of the week

The Pearl Giver Ch1

I am in the midst of my first bout of writer's block. It's not fun. The words still clamour to be let out, but it's as if the conduit from my brain to my fingers is broken. So I've decided to start posting a short noella I've been tying very hard to finish. The Pearl Giver is about Amy. She's an amazing, bright, vibrant young woman with a gift. She 'knows' stuff about people that she has no right knowing. She's also dying of a brain tumour. Enter her world and fall in love with the light that is Amy.

All I've Every Wanted

All I wanted was, for you to love me. You didn’t . I guess the reason is I didn’t ask you to get me stars unlike her. All I ever wanted was to be...

Here I go

He said he wanted his last words to be “I love you Orsolya. You’re the best person I know.” This was a couple of nights ago. Yet, we still stand here...
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The Princess and The Panda

Long ago, in China, a baby girl, a Princess, named Lou Lee was kidnapped by an evil wizard, named Fang Fu who took her to his paper pagoda and bound...

Chapter 11 Cyber Soul

Chapter 11 Cyber Soul Not long after Kia and Alex left Captain Marks on Older’s Island, a strange thing occurred. The air around his pitiful balled...
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The Bees

Twenty-four, an education and a hundred grand owed snails, the loans we once shifted were our homes. Now we plug in, pedal rented lives, no hands on...
Cherry

The Wanderlust Lady and the Door to Door Salesman - 30

February 4, 2013 The good weather was back again at the start of the next week, so I bit the bullet, and went for painting the fascia boards and...
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a 'Madman' looks at Forty

Half-grieving another of Pluto's near passages, I hold my flesh-crusted, boil-pocked skull in my feverish phalanges, praying to deities famous and...
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Smudge

It was starting to rain when I arrived home in the evening. A woman was crying on the stairwell as I walked up, on the landing underneath my own flat...

None left behind

Gloves on the sun in my eyes my steps lead me to her Stark white,frail figure on the road cars swerve right,left, just over the ones before didnt...

sun reflection

sun SHINE upon pond puod uodn 3NIHS uns
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Dunwich Beach (re-write)

Wind rouses my hair on Dunwich beach, a tangle rendered to a messy thatch. Waves churn mud coloured sand and current smoothed stones torn from...

The Lord Deserves Our Praise

Some people plan to praise the Lord when they go to Heaven but they should praise him now. Jehovah deserves our praise and gratitude and if he were...

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