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Drumming Up The Christmas Trade!

In which Archibald drums up trade whilst Josiah wrestles with a quandary!
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Christmas Misses
Turkeys carving Children starving Feast on the table Homeless and disabled Christmas tree aglow Wanderer with nowhere to go Pull the crackers read...
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The Glitch

I have written a ghost story every month this year and this is the last one. A Christmas one.
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Jordan Gravette Part 3 of 6

For this part, I thought I was ripping off a scene from Seven (Google it, unless you're as old as me then you won't have to). So why does my wife think I stole it from a Christmas episode of the Vicar of Dibley? I'm not posting tomorrow. If Mrs L finds me anywhere near a computer screen on Christmas Day it won't just be the turkey being stuffed. She's right of course. It's the one sacrosanct day of the year we have left to bask in the warmth of our families and loved ones. It would be a shame to waste it. Normal service will resume on Boxing Day (tha's Part 4...the one with the sex scene). Merry Christmas L42
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When Christmas Hurts.

I am in a group chat on our mobiles, I grew up with these girls, we are all in our fifties and sixties now, but we are still young in our eyes. I...
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A remembered ride home in a snow storm
The wind chill in Buffalo right now is in the minus digits. The wind speed is in the 60-mph range. It is dubbed by meteorologists as “a generational...
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Ye Olde Christmas Story
I never knew what to get Jesus for His birthday. He was good at batting away stupid questions like that. He’d been on a bit of a downer. I didn’t...
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1:3:5 Syndicate (Part 2)
Storm was an understatement. They may have been speaking a language Lore was fluent in but they had no hope of understanding any of the noise that...
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1:3:5 Syndicate (Part 1)
Coughing. A split second timing failure sent a needle into Lore’s lungs. A mouthful of Rexel’s smog was extracted and vented behind them. The clones...
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3 For 2.

I remember many years ago, some shops did, things like buy 5 get 2 free. I remember buying toothbrushes, and other things that I didn’t need. So, I...
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Jordan Gravette Part 2 of 6

Have you ever been watching an episode of your favourite TV series with someone who has never seen it before, so they spend the entire episode asking dumb questions like 'who's that' and 'why are they doing that' to the point where you just want to stab them. Well, don't be that person. Read Part 1 before you read this. Don't make me go to the kitchen and get a knife.
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Jordan Gravette Part 1 of 6

Ahem...this is a Christmas story that comes in six parts. I've shamelessly stolen the plot from Charles Dickens and the format from Channel 5's Taskmaster... and maybe a bit of 'It's a Wonderful Life'. It's also seasoned with ground up bits from the Greek classics. To be honest I've tried to exert as little effort as possible when it comes to cranial activity. I sort of just pinched some stories and typed them out. There's a sex scene in part 4 or 5 that competes well with anything Alan Titchmarch has written and in places things get quite dark. Apart from that, merry Xmas. xx (Pictures mine...taken in Calgary, Canada)
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Stars on Fire

Stars on Fire Jennifer Pickup 22.12.2022 Tonight, the stars are on fire, The sky is alight with their heat, I feel the glare upon my face, As love...
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What A Difference A Day Makes..........

I had a text to let me know I needed to bring my car in for its MOT. I rang the garage up and looking at my calendar on my wall, I had to decide when...
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Ode on a sprouting potato
What creature is it, other than human, dares eat the raw and humble potato? From whence it came, the first seed? From whence came that first seed?...
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Message V [Tidings of Little Comfort, But Some Joy]

Remember these three? image created by me at The Pulp-O-Mizer.
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Merry Christmas y'all
The magic of Christmas is an often-elusive concept that can elude the sophisticated. Life sometimes conditions those of us “on the shady side of...
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One Bullet Ended It All

It was Christmas Day and a horrible incident was about to unfold. When it happened, I was only four years old. It was Mom's last Christmas, she'd...
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Ancient Festival

Still is night under festive Light, where brightly lit Overhanging trees frame Vision; carrying energetic Rhythm. Celebrate Winter Solstice, Balanced...
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You're only mid-life once
A couple of weeks ago I overheard someone say, ‘You’re only young once’. A well-used, but odd phrase, don’t you think, for aren’t we all each and...
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