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Idiolectic Idiots

Idiolectic idiots running wild on city streets Cause friction with diction you wouldn't like to greet. Shouting and swearing, haranguing with F-words...

March Garden Haiku

Pruning back roses, My secateurs selected, snipping at the stems!

Evolutionary Myths

They used to say, Some things are relics in our bodies from previous non-human ancestors – vestigal, useless now, like the vermiform appendix, but...

Teeth Tales: Ernie's Terrible Teething

A gripping tale about baby Ernie's teething problems getting completely out of control.
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In Trouble, Deep

Danny & Julie's Story - Part 5
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If I Was Your Friend

There’s something about the morning that feels tragic to miss in its wake, the early blue skies, the fresh new songs, the birds, the wind untainted,...
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The Aromatherapist of Kozloduy

Summary but certainly not summery, though quite springlike towards the end of the month. Using precisely one hundred words per day, here’s my account of the things that went on in my Bulgarian life during the latter fourteen days of February.
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Legless

Legless. He stands on the pavement, under the sign, in exactly one place. Wobbling, swaying, leaning this way, then that way. Never setting off but...

Teeth Tales - Decline and Fall

A second bite at the Teeth Tales challenge.
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My Time In A & E

Dear diary... I never thought that I would be back in A & E. almost ten years from the last time I was there. It began on Tuesday February 24 th...
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The Poet's Progress

Open Mic, The Chipped Teacup , back in Eighty-Five, Alcohol it inspired me , and my poetry came alive. I plagiarised lyrics from songwriters like Tom...
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Spiral Descent

A man learns the the truth about a family legend. Inspired by a painting by CRW Nevinson.
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Hoping for divine intervention

Hoping for divine intervention isn't going to help us! I wonder what Steve McQueen would do? Humphrey Bogart, Nelson Mandela. Troublemakers! Jesus...
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A Ticket to the World

Danny & Julie's Story - Part 4
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Bron-19

Continued from Chapter 18: Bron-18 | ABCtales “You can have anything on the menu that you fancy, girls.” Ger settled into his seat, though the dark...

Teeth Tales: "Ratoncito Pérez is Not a Fairy"

I am not a fairy. I know that's a loaded statement. Please allow me to rephrase. I am a mouse. I collect teeth. I have been doing this since 1894 and...
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Emasculation - IP Anatomy

When a woman turns us down we feel it in our bones from the skull to the feet our whole skeleton rattles battles against the urge to shake off her...
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Jenkins’ Ear

'Go tell your king that we'll do this to him,' they said, as they chopped off his ear You're not wanted here, the Americas are ours, we hold the...

Jelly

Who are poems for - Who is allowed to play in their cracks? Are they for the “students of literature” Jelly mounds to poke and prod To slurp Is there...
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Marching on ( Haiku)

March, the sun is out, no dancing daffodils yet. Spring waits in the wings!
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