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What's the opposite?
Heavy and light, black and white, hot and cold , young and old, fast and slow, up high , or down below : how many opposites do you know? The giraffe...
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The 9th Anniversary
It has been nine years since I adopted her. She was like a daughter and that's for sure. We were together for nearly seven years. When I say that I...
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The Incredible Hulk
I've been a huge fan of "The Incredible Hulk" since 1978. When I first started watching "The Incredible Hulk" TV show, I didn't know that it was...
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Smell our fish
Exmouth for visitors Do not have ants in your pants Where to? We take our time Here Do you see us? Hear us Feel our underwaters We show our colours...
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Crossing the Line
I slid across our side-walk until a magic carpet of leaves hoisted me onto the wind- it’s a hot summer night on the edge of farewell as Autumn’s...
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1:2:3 Missing (Part 2)
“What do you think you’re doing?” Undulia looked ready to hit her. The alarm continued blaring. She shouted over to Lore to make sure they couldn’t...
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1:2:3 Missing (Part 1)
Stairs. It wasn’t the quantity, more rather the steepness and harshness of the chosen medium. Each step was ever so slightly taller than Lore was...
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Ugly Puggly 78
Ugly Puggly told me a drunk was like a Russian novelist. Always close to tears. I rambled on. ‘I don’t believe in God or that kinda stuff,’ I told...
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Thirteen Letters. Chapter Nine.
The day finally arrived, my first day at work, I was nervous, it was good of Maxine to let us settle down, our own little family. She had thought of...
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The Room
you could cut the silence with a knife the room used to be filled so much life now all that is left are memories of the fun there use to be and...
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She sites on her doorstep
she sits there on her doorstep and watches the world go by with a smile she will not move from her doorstep she won't move or go inside until she has...
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Best Friend
26th August 2022 - International Dog Day
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My Knight
In 2002, the man I loved 28 years before in Africa, found my name on the net. After running away to Oz, two beautiful children, a bitter divorce and...
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True Tales from an Austere Kingdom - Inflation
I hailed a cab to take me to my club. "That'll be a penny guvnor, up front if you don't mind." "I do mind, actually," I said. "I am used to being...
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Ugly Puggly 77
When they left for Drymen, I went to the shop and bought a bottle of Vladistock. I cracked it open on the main road and took a quick slug. It burned...
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RJC
His face is the waves of shipwreck slants and slashes, all going down while hand light-holds a brush to make blank paper open up like dawn to...
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Where's the Z?
[This is a rework of a piece I wrote for an IP in 2013] Some like the stress, and mental strategies of chess; but my mother and I liked to dabble in playing scrabble – try for a double …
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Shift
Drifting through space Heart resting in hands Shards of glass embedded deep A soul so broken A mind lost Hope there's enough left Riding the wave of...
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Gifted are our memories. by MarciaMarcia
gifted are our memories”by MarciaMarcia those happiest of sunny summer days, by the waters of the Cape, walking the streets past town shops eating...
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