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The Spawn of the Swinging Sixties Chapter Twenty One A Final Distant Clarion Cry 1

Chapter Twenty One A Final Distant Clarion Cry Introduction A Final Distant Clarion Cry consists of diverse unrelated writings which I painstakingly...

The coral reef

Suspended from strands of light Upside down lies a coral reef. My living room’s edge marks off its territory. Stippled hard droplets form its surface...

Sharing is caring

Life is not worth living if you’re not sharing. Real life interaction has become so wearing. Don’t tell me that you love me on the phone or face to...
Cherry

Beaujolais Days

Straw hat tilted to shade her eyes, in the shadow of the vine-covered veranda, she sits – glass in hand,

VULNERABLE

i found you once susceptible to thoughts of dread of fear and that it when i loved you most and held you oh so near . for that it when you let me in...

The concept of acceleration– in everyday experience

When on a short break to the farm recently my brother asked me some questions by our little fire under the Southern Sky. It gave me the idea for this...

Love’s Lightning

And then love’s lightning struck me in the heart; with fearsome flash; deep as a fatal dart and, as the hundred hooves of thunder sound, within my...

The Wax Figurine

Once an evil witch named Nastia was spurned by a handsome prince named Rickhart and so, in a mood of vengeance, she made a figurine out of wax and...
Cherry

The Spawn of the Swinging Sixties Chapter Twenty The Twilight of an Actor

Chapter Twenty The Twilight of an Actor Introduction In the first place The Twilight of an Actor existed as nothing more than the poem Such a Short...

Pertwee's Peril

Your life was in peril eighteen years ago when you died of a heart attack. You've been dead for many years and sadly, you will not be coming back...

The Shelf - Part Two

'Here he is!' Rupert announced as the waiter returned with three obese glasses on a silver tray, each swirling with amber liquid. With an unsteady...

3 years in hell rough draft

This is the rough draft of what the emperor went through in his three years with the doctor. This is uncompleted

let me not

let me not deign to assign a fabric of time upon your starry eyes, so cold they shone under the umbrella of shyness. i did not know what to say, had...

The Emperor Behind the Dragon Throne

The Emperor behind the Dragon Throne By Benjamin Ma "Come out you traitor! The rat that hides behind the Palace Walls shall be brought before the...

Dancing Under the Moonlight

I saw her every night, dancing under the moonlight. Through the dark woods, I saw her, barefoot and pale. The grass bowing down beneath her toes, the...
Cherry

The Down and Out King - 9

EMILY One day as I was walking though streets not knowing where to go, My eyes fell on a little boy, Close to the workhouse door; He was crying, so I...

The Spawn of the Swinging Sixties Chapter Nineteen The Trials of a Teetotaller

Chapter Nineteen The Trials of a Teetotaller Introduction The Trials of a Teetotaller was originally published as Release, Relapse and Restoration at...

Wars Kill People...Don't They?

Wars Kill People…Don’t They? 320 words To die for one’s country, Is a beautiful and fitting thing. They were words I once heard, But it’s not a song...
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Home!

Home! 220 words I waited for him to come home, As he promised that he would. He’d gone to fight in the war, Not that it did anyone any good. War ends...

The World at War!

World at War! 2319 words ‘Get yourself down to the recruiting office you’re no use on the farm.’ said Squire. ‘Your country needs you. I shouldn’t...

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