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"Fix" haiku set
Losing names, waving cash... chain-smoking dark cigars seeing by dark stars like a blood-born bat flying over a city of the drug-lit now purging old...
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Brian - part 5
continued from http://www.abctales.com/story/moor-land/brian-part-4 On the radio there was a phone-in about police commissioners and cuts. “Yup, it'...
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Surface Tension
"Goldfish only have a memory span of five seconds.” “A few – that’s true, but others can remember too much..."
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Famine
The sinking sun is now undone, the sky is fading red and shadows prowl neath cloak and cowl for midnight lies ahead. Above the heap, the bosses sleep...
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SHORT STORY 1
Stockholm syndrome and split personality By Adam Blair I don’t quite remember a before time. I lay me down for dreamless sleep beneath a sky of...
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Judgement
Judgement The interrogation room was stifling and smelled of rotten corpses. Timothy sat at the end of a bland wooden desk, shuffling through a stack...
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Omar's Diary Thursday 30th April 2015
That picture at the top is of me back at the vets for a little problem I had that the servants noticed the other night. To help the vets reach a...
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She Was Sent To The Chair
She said that she was innocent but nobody heard her. She was sent to the electric chair because of a murder. Even though she was innocent, she was...
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Untitled
Chapter 1 “I could’ve been big, I could’ve.” She took a drag on her cigarette which had almost burnt out. “I chose you lot instead, I did. I had...
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An Opinion
An Opinion P K Routray Between “Love” and “Like” exist a difference which is hard to strike But here is this author’s metaphoric comparison on a...
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Getting married
Imagine getting married, Hunting for a flowing white lacy dress, Mum at my elbow, "Slim down, all the gowns are size 16", Slipping on white shoes,...
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An Uneasy Truce
I dressed myself in finest rags and wished away the formic decay; always the eyes chance themselves toward that little flame. I stay contented,...
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The Brothel Keepers
An old man I used to work with On a building site Asked me if I was political Asked if I was left or right I looked him in the eye And told him...
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Hey chicken legs!
Hey chicken legs! I just wanted to say I’m thinking about you after what you told me the other night. Are you sure it wasn’t just the Chardonnay...
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Life
Life is like a movie script. We act until the director shouts, "cut".
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Change
Change always happens, It's life, Everything changes, every day, you have different thoughts like being born again, Try meditating, being born is as...
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Lan and Sorraru - Rain
Two young people awaken in an arena and are forced to fight to the death. But young hunter Lan cannot kill the helpless Sorraru and instead they work together to try and escape their prison.
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Number Order Puzzle:
I cannot seem to put these numbers in order. When I arrange them from 1 to 8 on one side they are disorganized on the other. Here they are in order...
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Westons Go West 4 - Arrival in Utah - part 2
“My name is Thomas Leek. What I want to know is what about Thomas Coleman’s murder?” “I'm getting rather annoyed with all these quesions,” said Mr...
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