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Heartbeat
In 2007, I was diagnosed with a blood condition called lupus anti-coagulant. It means that my blood clots quicker than normal. I was devastated when...
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A satirical laugh
A satirical laugh On an early morning walk for free air, without mask while none on the road with thoughts overload on the pandemic display to...
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Nearly two, character portrait
Just enough hair for a tiny vertical ponytail on top of her head. Walking around the house in wellies (thinking: I can put these on myself – ready to...
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Maria's Diary 19
Chapter 19 Chase and change are ever busy Man decays and ages move; But His mercy waineth never God is wisdom, God is love. June 25, 1837 We have...
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Roy Batty (Tears in Rain)
This is a tribute to Roy Batty played by the late Rutger Hauer from one of my favourite movies - Blade Runner (1982) https://bladerunner.fandom.com/...
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Covid 19 Youtube(2)
This was Sally's choice of film. It was Friday night. The curtains were drawn again. The screen was up. The crisps and sweets were on the coffee...
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Covid 19 Youtube(1)
The inhabitants of Piddledon Farm sat in a huge lounge looking at a 45 inch projector screen. The curtains were drawn so that they sat in almost...
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Notes from Isolation 1: Characterization
I have been contemplating ways to keep everyone informed on my progress about my novel as that is very much essential as of now to avoid falling into...
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Shame
I had a three o clock appointment with Mr. Hamill, an orthopaedic surgeon. I went into the receptionist at ten to three, ten minutes early. I always...
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The Three Halves of Martyn Manning-Chapter Twenty-One: Deep Thought - Part Two
He was bored with navel gazing. He picked up the newspaper’s magazine supplement and turned to the back cover to do the weekly general knowledge quiz...
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The Three Halves of Martyn Manning-Chapter Twenty-One: Deep Thought - Part One
The next morning was Saturday morning. Shagging morning. Elena arrived at the usual time, just before seven, naked except for her cotton dressing...
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Kingdom of Heaven
Is there life out there? Could there even be intelligent life? One wonders if there might be other beings similar to us? Other beings, intelligent...
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Conformity
I was a victim of conformity as I was growing up, but without it I wouldn’t be the person I am now. At fifteen I lost a lot of friends who saw me as...
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The Word Police
I was summoned before the Word Police. "You've written 650 stories, Mr Oblong," they said. "Most of them very long." "That's right," I said. Were...
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The Pocket Watch
I went shopping with my aunt Fiona not really in the market to buy anything, but it was a novelty after covid and lockdown. Both myself and Fiona...
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I Found
I Found youth in the colour of your eyes those brown silhouettes of caring and love same as a farmer has for his crops. A shower of energy and beauty...
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Take Heart, For Hope: A Wish
I am confused and I am angry, my heart left so unsoothed. Yet there remains that light eternal, an imperishable flame. It is Hope. Something better...
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Do not pass go
Her perfectly manicured, blood-soaked hand, discovered in the prickly blackberry bushes beside the moss-covered train tracks by two mischievous...
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The Power ay Suggestion
The street’s silent an cauld, the last bite ay winter’s teeth clamped tae the mornin, hingin oan in a furtive, futile last effort, in defiance ay the...
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Sunglasses
My therapist told me that my family is a sunglass through which my vision of life is being tinted. The first man you see in your life is your father...
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