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"Mr. Nothingsworth"

By Penny4athought on Tue, 03 Jun 2025

Mr. Nothingsworth, proprietor of the “Whatnot” shop of castaway things and oddities, was a self proclaimed curmudgeon. The old coot loved to annoy...

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I don't have time to waste

By swindonwoody on Tue, 03 Jun 2025

I'm going to run the race I don't have time to waste it's life it's just life take it while you can cause before you know it will be all gone I want...

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Spring

By samhennig on Tue, 03 Jun 2025

I heard it again for the first time in a very long time, through cheap earphones while walking over uneven ground, wind clattering against...

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I'm tearing your heart apart

By swindonwoody on Tue, 03 Jun 2025

As I sit here waiting for some reply it don't matter what words I 'm saying there not going to hurt you any less no matter what I say a simple sorry...

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The Time Capsule

By mcscraic on Tue, 03 Jun 2025

The Time Capsule By Paul McCann The old house sat nestled in the arc of a dead-end street . It was a huge place that screamed at the smaller and more...

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Class of '84

By Tom Brown on Tue, 03 Jun 2025

Also your greatest of all advantage in a chess game is to have your opponent underestimate you. Myself don't attend reunions I'm usually busy then,...

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New Directions (38)

By Ed Crane on Tue, 03 Jun 2025

The idea of going up North to stay at Karen’s temped me. I figured at least I’d get to sleep with her when she got home. Then I remembered the last...

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Undisentanglable!

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 03 Jun 2025

Been having shopping delivery for a few years due to Covid and personal health issues. Works well most of the time, but last week the pies I’d...

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Murder in the Tesco Express

By Turlough on Tue, 03 Jun 2025

Based on a series of events witnessed over a number of years in my local convenience shop when I lived in the sleepy English town of Chippenham.

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Write to Romance

By Frances Macaulay Forde on Mon, 02 Jun 2025

Jessica drove furiously through familiar back streets - happy that she'd didn't have to travel to Cottesloe; being late for meetings at Tom Collins...

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Xion Island: Chapter 16

By Sooz006 on Mon, 02 Jun 2025

Barrow had precisely two pubs that didn’t belt out karaoke on a Friday night. Nash had picked The Townhouse—a low-lit place with real ale, decent...

Crime

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Population decline

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 02 Jun 2025

Where have all the babies gone … dwindling pool of future skill … enable aging population to still receive a reasonable pension

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Chronicles of Trumpenstein : Suspicions of a Modern Coup! By (As Distant As Possible!) Armchair Commentator Alfred N.Muggins

By David Kirtley on Sun, 01 Jun 2025

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17/2/25 Mrs Muggins decided the 3 or 4 year old Television in the lounge was getting a bit old. Technological progress was continuing to move forward...

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Question (Episode 11 - The Further Chronicles of a Young Lady (and her Maid))

By philwhiteland on Sun, 01 Jun 2025

Aefelthrith is posed a question and Gwladys has to give an answer.

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Fussbuckets

By sean mcnulty on Sun, 01 Jun 2025

Rain came on as I walked. Naturally. If only I’d had that emergency umbrella I purchased the other day, the one now sitting in my hallway unused,...

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Mother Of Hardship

By mcscraic on Sun, 01 Jun 2025

Mother Of Hardship By Paul McCann Mother of hardship there’s no easy answer except to keep on trying . Mother of hardship I can always count on your...

Spiritual

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Treasure of Sensory Impressions

By skinner_jennifer on Sun, 01 Jun 2025

that solitude that excites the mind, where time is of no importance; wealth of meandering purple view pleases senses, such miracles are like a lovers...

Nature