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Still Life II

Yesterday never really got light. A bleak midwinter day if ever there was one. Sky, a twilit grey-green all day, somewhere between aventurine and...
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The Meeting of the Waters

A few words about my love affair with one of Europe's great rivers and her little sister.
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Why Christmas? (1)

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Nothing, nothing to be seen. Only One, true God, who’d been always, ever and content, but he chose to make, invent … damaged, sad … trust he would appear …

Little Golden Fishes

little golden fishes that the guiris drop in la fuente on the way to the clubs and bars from the fairground float side up in the fountain
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The Vagabond Heirs of Francisco Franco

They sit in every cafe-bar named after the street on whose corner it squats. Smoking, small-eyed, wall-eyed moustachioed muchachos remembering kisses...
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Roommate

I tightened my grip on the box of books, the corners biting into my palms, as I navigated the narrow staircase to my new apartment. The air was thick...
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On December Nights in 1973

On December Nights in 1973 Our mum, she loved Marks & Spencer. She'd always say, "Ohh.You can't beat them for quality. For value!" Every...

The Last Night Good Night Chapter 11

The Last Night Chapter 11 Good Night 35 “I see Mama.” Wyatt murmured when he slid from the bed and joined Ariel and Forrest. They were standing with...
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The Rain

The Rain His first memory is when he hid under his Mum’s bed to scare her new boyfriend. The boyfriend had needles. At the time he didn’t know what...
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Stormy Night Of Passion

Fading into night, stars intrinsic to space and time twinkle, while chilly forked branches interlace; those giants stand tall watching over living...
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Another Cup Of Coffee (Dead Reckoning series - Part 38)

In which Josiah and Archibald escape from the long arm of the law, but for how long?
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Still Life

Friday evening, joined a ceilidh-zoom for the Geopoetics Society Christmas celebration. Forgot about all that zoom, ‘you’re-on-mute‘, kafuffle. Am...

Cosm

Time is my timelord, accuracy is written in the stars, each perfect in their allotment of space. No errancy here, no easing of the rules, no escape...
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Globe’s North-South Divide

The cold takes hold, night’s darkness lingers longer but down in the South the growth’s reviving, the daylight’s lengthening, strengthening, its...

1:5:6 Agreements (Part 7)

The flash of white burned a little brighter but they still safely made it to the desert. Lore had pre-programmed their second jump so that the moment...

Christ Mas Lights.

This week there were two funerals. My brother went to the one I went to the other. The funeral my brother went to the young person had taken their...
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Goth Kit (IP)

At seventeen, I was a goth. A serious goth. I lived in skin-tight black drainpipes, slippery viscose shirts, eyeliner so sharp it could cut glass,...
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On High with the Angels

Drove home on Monday via the Glamis Road, avoiding the queues from Dundee roadworks. Exited for Kinfauns and rather than go left towards Scone, out...
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The Worm

Of all of my books, it is De Vermis Mysteriis that is the most mysterious. An old book copied from much older sources, translated into different languages and kept hidden, it details long lost civilisations and their monstrous gods. For our history is a crafted lie, created to hide the fact that we are not the first intelligent races to exist on this planet.

The December Grass

Under contract, he mows the pristine estate edgings unknowingly, him in the day glo, hood up, head down. No seasonal ho-ho-ho about him (and who can...
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