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My Time In A & E ( PT 2 )

Dear diary... Still waiting in A & E It was now the middle of the night before another doctor came and spoke to me at around 3am in the morning...

Did you hear

Did you hear the one about the plastic surgeon with a Parkinsons's shake? His client went in for a nose job, came out with a vasectomy.

"Love will Keep Us Together"

NEIL SEDAKA 1939 - 2026 He's always been and will continue to be a HERO of mine! Thank you, Neil, for all the love expressed so beautifully,...

Blue Moon Dream

From our gauntly utilitarian porch, the tawdry majesty of Modernia, the city of dreams, stretched and sloped out below like a pleasant suggestion of...
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Never Gonna Give

Danny & Julie's Story - Part 6
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Rest In Peace, Mom - Part IX

If people ask, I'll tell them how great of a mother you were. You died thirteen years ago today and it was hard to endure. When your life ended...

The Tannins That Bind

There's something wrong with it... Not something one can put their finger on but rather something that can only be detected with the tip of the...
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March Garden Haiku

Pruning back roses, My secateurs selected, snipping at the stems!

Evolutionary Myths

They used to say, Some things are relics in our bodies from previous non-human ancestors – vestigal, useless now, like the vermiform appendix, but...

Teeth Tales: Ernie's Terrible Teething

A gripping tale about baby Ernie's teething problems getting completely out of control.
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In Trouble, Deep

Danny & Julie's Story - Part 5
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If I Was Your Friend

There’s something about the morning that feels tragic to miss in its wake, the early blue skies, the fresh new songs, the birds, the wind untainted,...
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The Aromatherapist of Kozloduy

Summary but certainly not summery, though quite springlike towards the end of the month. Using precisely one hundred words per day, here’s my account of the things that went on in my Bulgarian life during the latter fourteen days of February.
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Legless

Legless. He stands on the pavement, under the sign, in exactly one place. Wobbling, swaying, leaning this way, then that way. Never setting off but...

Teeth Tales - Decline and Fall

A second bite at the Teeth Tales challenge.
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My Time In A & E

Dear diary... I never thought that I would be back in A & E. almost ten years from the last time I was there. It began on Tuesday February 24 th...
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The Poet's Progress

Open Mic, The Chipped Teacup , back in Eighty-Five, Alcohol it inspired me , and my poetry came alive. I plagiarised lyrics from songwriters like Tom...
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Spiral Descent

A man learns the the truth about a family legend. Inspired by a painting by CRW Nevinson.
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Hoping for divine intervention

Hoping for divine intervention isn't going to help us! I wonder what Steve McQueen would do? Humphrey Bogart, Nelson Mandela. Troublemakers! Jesus...
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A Ticket to the World

Danny & Julie's Story - Part 4

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