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Profile in Courage
Profile in Courage Laboring, in the vineyards of the vote, has always been a task ill-suited to the strongly principled. Compromise, deal making and...
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Afternoon Delight
Dear diary...it's Sunday afternoon, 14 th August 2022, and the temperature keeps on rising. Sitting in my garden den, thinking of the wild green man...
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More Teashop Life.
I thought at five foot nine inches I would be classed as a midget these days, but apparently I underestimated my Herculean stature. On approaching...
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Pretending to Believe
I didn't even know people did this on-line. Image is author's own fault.
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The Wayward Noodle 4
“I didn’t say that quickly! Are you okay?” “I don’t mind telling you, I’m feeling pretty al dente right now.” Noodle lay, gathering what was left of...
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The Wayward Noodle 3
Soon, Noodle was back at ‘Mon Plume’. It was completely closed. He came to a two-point landing on a ceiling fan over the restaurant floor, which he...
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Elvis Presley Was His Name
He began recording for Sun Records until his contract was acquired by RCA. He was the King of Rock and Roll and his life ended forty-five years ago...
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The Nicotine Addict
Can you blow circles one inside the other? And smoke out the mouth into the nose or put the cigarettes out on your tongue? Play chicken with a...
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Bermuda Dreams
Chapter Three "So get this!" Their host flapped his hand down, inflecting his desire for them to converse in hushed voices. He kept on in a high...
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Bermuda Dreams
Chapter Two "Wake up...wake up fool!" Tom awoke to find Big Roy hollering at him from a seat across an aisleway. He felt a bump of turbulence, pops...
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Bermuda Dreams
Chapter One Tom dreamt of golden triangles. They flew at him in flashy arrays, lighthouses at their tips, framing views of seas below. He didn't want...
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Knights Of the Keyboard To the Defence of Ukraine (Part 1) by Alfred N.Muggins
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4/4/22 (edited and added to up to 24/4/22) Alfred commented in response to a possible (i.e. very likely) Russian Paid Troll on Facebook on a...
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Cursed Muse
As the saying go’s “Beauty is a Curse” and it is so with the Lifeguard Captains #2. The Lifeguard Captain, DJ, explains it like this; “Take a deep...
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Witnessing an Embarrassing Event
Oh no! Short sighted sir. You shouldn't procreate with her. Can you not feel the abundant fur? You're copulating with next door's cur! You're the...
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An Original Obsession
Undercurrents ensure the power of waves by scouring beneath for anything which may impede Northumberland Strait’s drive and bouncing crests are...
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Rites of Passage
Rites of Passage The chilly winds swept over the Lake Erie ice. The mist and damp, of an overnight cloudburst, lingered and added to the feeling of...
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The Wayward Noodle 2
In Cincinnati, a woman sat at an old switchboard. She had fifty years in with Ma Bell as a payphone operator. It was one of the more stressful jobs...
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The Wayward Noodle 1
Noodle lived inside a box with a thousand other macaronis, in the name-brand pasta section of a Gem Supermarket. But, he was no non-count noodle. He...
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Bless Me Father
In the confessional.
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Chemo 5
I had an email from my brother-in-law today. It was headed “Sympathy”. It rather startled me because he is a cancer epidemiologist and statistician...
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