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The Old Man from Far Away (2)
His age was a mystery. Once he told us of the time it took him to sail to the stars - sixteen years. "And when I returned everything had gone," he...
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The Masterplan
The summary
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The Nova Scotia I Know
How I enjoy an Autumn trail with colour beneath my feet- a wind of chill against my cheek. After heaving breath from hilly Cape Blomidon’s strict...
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Things My Mother Gave Me
A cast-iron bladder is one of the things my mother gave me. ‘That will be the Charvill genes, my darling! All the women have one: the legendary...
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Gemma Part II
Hannah 11:01 p.m. I’ve never understood the way people get so worked up about things. Gemma was trying to talk to me about something today, prattling...
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Covid 19- Et Portare Super Vos Tacebitis
October Earlier Days. Covid 19- Et Portare Super Vos Tacebitis The weekend seems far away now. Daughter in grade 1 ballet, mummy making a Roman...
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Boys and Girls
The girls are always well turned-out. They come to me to ensure it. This gift I have, I suppose. Knowing how to pick out the right dress for them,...
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Flanagan phoned – left a message
Flanagan phoned – left a message 'hope you’re well I’m down your way be nice to catch up I’ll bring some snaps of my latest artwork’ Flanagan had a...
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Swipe
Have you ever matched with someone on Tinder and it turns out to be the super-hot dad of one of the children in your class? And on parents evening he...
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Arming Astana
eleven plus two is twelve plus one
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bird feeder
Slog uphill, from Bargain Buys trolley-tugging a big bag, heart heavy with world's worries hard to change till become aware of pigeons, jackdaws,...
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11 PLUS
‘Good luck Nigel. You won’t need it mind, you’re a bright lad. Go and show em what you’re made of.’ ‘Okay mum.’ Nigel Wheeler took his seat next to...
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Nightmare In Trafalgar Square
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There was noise below. Thousands of people milled in the Square below. That was not entirely abnormal, in his occasional wakeful periods, when the...
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Gemma Part I
Mitch 12 November 1996 10.58 p.m. The streets seem slick with grease tonight. Murky rainbows ripple in every pothole, their dirty sheen illuminated...
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Process
Sad. Ecstatically so sometimes a relief familiar sting me so I know I can feel something borrowed from an old feeling blue and black and beaten back...
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Familiarity
Familiarity clings Breath forms droplets in the ether Specks of dust skin hair dirt grimy flakes of human indulgence encapsulated in a bubble of...
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A Woman of the Swamp - 3
Previous Chapter 3. Flight of the Necromancer It wasn’t Marie’s first time fleeing from the authorities. Even if she hadn’t been guilty of breaking...
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Caught in the Act
A nursery tale for our time.
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The seasons' round
Autumn leaves are falling down falling down, falling down …
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