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Making Plans...for Archibald (Part 2)

In which Josiah schemes and Archibald crashes.
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Winter's Grip

Coating of early morning frost displayed, signaling departure autumn's golden cheer, hard bitten evergreens where blackbird and robin contentedly...
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Parental Advisory - Part Two
Teas are sipped and biscuits are nibbled. I quietly muse on my mother’s ability to conjure a mortal slight from the thinnest of air. Then she starts...
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Parental Advisory - Part One
A fox comes sometimes. It’s there now. It just lies there on the lawn, as if sunning itself, even when the weather is dull and overcast. It’s...
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Your accent tells …

They know I’m not English and ask if I’m Irish, and when that fails, they think of Wales.… …are we Wenglish? …
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Barley Ghosts

Something stalks where no man ever whispered, twisted the stem after harvest here, where land has always been arable. Reaping, ploughing, sewing...
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Opera lays an egg!!
When Grand Opera isn’t. The Magic of a successful, grand opera is a mystical experience. It is a poly-euphony of melodious orchestral pieces, the...
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The Vulture, Pt.2

Trevor completely ignored her, favoring the mutilated hawk instead. It was difficult to see amidst all the scrunched feathers, but the waking hawk...
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Mudbath! (The Ultimate Day Trip Of All Possible Day Trips!) by Alfred N. Muggins (from his recent holiday in Marmaris, Turkey!) Part 2
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May 2022 (Written 11/7/22) They had been picked up on that fateful morning at the allotted time, about 8.15 if he recalled correctly. This would be...
An Englishman In Disguise

Soldier of excellence
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