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Bloody Madrid

Bloody Madrid! Just had a flashback to the airport and that nervous feeling, high with elation, dragging my case into a strange city late at night...

The Blossom That Would Not Blow Away

There once was a fabulous blossom which clung onto the branch of its tree even though the wind blew so hard that it blew away all the other blossom...
Cherry

A Secret of the Heart

Once, a very long time ago, man did not have machines or knowledge of the Earth and stars. In fact, he was a hairy ape who only knew how to eat and...

Ideas: Branch of fate randomising game device/Also: The rules of "Numero" and "Icarus"

Branch of fate - Randomising game device A Branch of Fate is a tube with one entrance at the top but two (or more) numbered exits at the bottom and...

Flittering Primrose: A Season of Unrequited Love

Your Primrose blossomed in the Spring frothy petals in the light flared a brilliant hue your season to groom I stitched a garland to pair my green...

Eulogy of the Bicycle Children

Eulogy of the Bicycle Children By Wilder Carnes Before making a move from home nothing seemed closer to them then the world they didnt actually...

Its A Wonderful Life

It’s a Wonderful Life by Paul McCann . The harbour lights they shone down on a town fast asleep and the sound of the winds around me and there’s no...
Cherry

uncovering oneself (3)

The downstairs bar shut. I bought a bottle of Buckie from the Off Sales. It was more expensive than usual, but I was more flush than usual...

5 Moments of Happiness

Today I find myself at a cross roads, earlier this month I had my first close call with Lyfe. Yet again, Lyfe seems to be a kid with a magnifying...
Cherry

Out by Raghly.

It's still early, only 9.30, but I've already been in the sea out by Raghly this morning. I left the house quietly just when the dawn light was...
Cherry

Swift

Swift The Swifts lace the early – Summer evening air With cries of despair like The melancholy of my heart I feel the warm atmosphere On my skin like...

Judgement

Judgment P K Routray Judge someone never as a saint or a sinner, Leave it to the judge super who is all-pervading observer. Nothing can elude His...
Cherry

The Dragon of Nottingham - Peach Pit in the Sand

"Please to be stepping off my paw, your extraordinariness!" said Señor Cody Coyote. "I will be in much need of it when I am wanting to embrace all...

howl: a citation i

i see the best minds of the new generation, blowing their minds with drugs, wanting to experience everything through time which is eternally present...

Late September

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Still life was the challenge of the new term. Maria, whose yellowed fingers would later take the charcoal from my hand and crush the burnt willow,...
Cherry

Ch2: Stolen May 14th part 2

It’s coming up on five and I have hardly moved since I came into the shopping centre. It’s too late to go back home now. Vaguely I wonder what Mum...
Cherry

Numb

There is silence tonight, not that of the graveyard, but that of a forest which has lost its leaves. Hopeless numb silence, with sound of its own,...
Cherry

Gallarion (working title) part two

When the lift came to a halt once more Kal found himself on the lower levels of his ship. Opposite the lift was a set of massive double doors...

The Down and Out King - 5

EMILY Kind folks all list to my ditty, And afford me if you can some pity I’ve escaped from a place where they try to burk us, I mean the Poor Law...

Dear Lord

Humble me my Lord, humble me, proud as a fortress have I become, proud and arrogant like a fool. Nothing can come into me, nothing can revive me but...

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