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Never

What can you say when a dear friend passes away? That they were good and kind and loved my many? That they were respected and stood by their beliefs...
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A Victorian Lady's Memoirs Part Eight

We were brought together, recalling that I couldn't help gazing into Samuel's big blue eyes, this refined gentleman that I felt I'd known in another...
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Out of Season

The soil was still warm. Even though frost clung to car windows and the neighbor’s roof glittered like sugar, Nora pressed her fingers into the...
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Dead Man: 2

John Bardo begins the last day of his life... On the way back to the bedroom, John turned on the gas boiler and clicked the stat up a notch – just...
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YNWA.

YNWA. I have seen this before but never knew what it meant. Then someone sent it to me recently and I still didn’t understand what it meant. I told...
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Pudding Detective - Chapter 3

You know when it's Christmas morning and you wake up super early and you're lying in your bed imagining how the day will unfold and there are mountains of presents waiting for you downstairs under the tree...?
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New Directions (37)
By lunchtime my eyes felt like someone’d kicked sand in my face. Three hours of staring at my PC screen scrolling through hundreds of messages trying...
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The 30th Anniversary Of Christopher Reeve's Accident
Thirty years ago today, millions of people were surprised. Christopher Reeve fell off a horse and he was paralyzed. Reeve's accident occurred on May...
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Chronicles of Trumpenstein : Desecration and Desperation.. By (As Distant As Possible!) Armchair Commentator Alfred N.Muggins
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16/2/25 Desecration of Constitution, Separation of powers, shut ‘em down! Shutting down all those government offices which were there to help the...
10 Life Lessons. Number 10.
1968 came along and suddenly I was ten years old and in my final year at Junior school. That was the first time I heard the words “Eleven Plus.” The...
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Jack’s been to the national
“ And the interesting thing about Just van Rossum’s FF Confidential font ,” the speaker said, “ i s its recent use in a campaign against pira cy. I...
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The Death of Fruit
It's hard to say when the murder occurred. It could have been a slow torture, or just a few brutal blows. But somewhere between the 1970's and 2010,...
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A Victorian Lady's Memoirs Part Seven

I recall feeling quite surprised, and impressed when we entered double iron gates, that took us along a lengthy drive. We arrived at a large imposing...
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The Last Customer

The diner was nearly empty, the kind of dead quiet that only came after midnight—booth lights dimmed to amber, pie case humming softly in the back...
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Loose Lettuce Leaf Factory Tour
Brake squeal announced busload disembark - not locals but a chattering multi-cultural arc. Concentration torn from my romance book I grabbed my bag...
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In The Twinkling Of An Eye.

For many years Paul my husband would do a secret Santa. That was what he called it. Christ mas Eve, he would put £10 in an envelope and put it...
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My Mind Is a Bad Neighborhood
Note to reader: this is a first draft. Please feel free to leave comments about what works/doesn't work, or how you think this piece might improve...
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Goodbye Sam, Hello Samaritans
“They’re resurrecting Dylan Thomas,” Toby said. “Hello, Samaritans,” I said. “Could you stop doing that,” Toby said. “I’m sorry. I’m just nervous, it...
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Freedom of Speech

I‘m not a tale for you to tell, nor melodies for you to sing. In darkness where the shadows dwell, I rise beyond what mainstreams bring. I'm not a...
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President In Office
Mr Cyril Rhamaphosa Do not underestimate the responsibility on his shoulders, let us try and understand the difficulty and directly conflicting...
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