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Aunties & Uncles

Aunties are strange, giant women; bosomy mob bosses, it seems to me; Matriarchs of tribal broods; their social gatherings like summits between...
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Quinn and the witch

“I hope you don’t mind helping me out, “ said Quinn to his line-manager, “But there’s something odd in my Outlook diary.” “Not at all, show me.” They...
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Story of the week

A typical Friday night.

They were here again tonight. Dark menacing figures of men in hoods with blue rangers scarves covering their faces, more as a badge of identity than...

A LOVE LESS ORDINARY

A LOVE LESS ORDINARY Foxes cachinnate Into the infant day Her dreams are circumfused Into milk way She catches a glimpse of a sunbeam: a tardigrade...

CTMAS - Chapter 2: Eldris

Computer, Tell Me a Story Chapter 2: Eldris “So where exactly are we?” Rayan asked, looking around. Aurora was running around the open field chasing...
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CTMAS - Chapter 1: Visitors

Computer, Tell Me a Story Chapter 1: Visitors Earth, present day. "Rayan, look!" Came the little girl's shout. The echoes in the cavern making her...
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CTMAS - Prologue

Computer, Tell Me a Story Prologue War. No one wants it. But differences and scarcity make it inevitable. This is Eldris. The days long past when the...
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That Old Rooster

I hated that old rooster, because he always chased me when I gathered eggs. But in this tale from my youth, that old rooster picked the wrong time and the wrong place for a winner-takes-all battle for “King of the Barnyard.”

Present Presence

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] No babe in Bethlem, the manger’s bare, the cross is empty – he is not there: he’s gone to heaven from where … your Guest now within your heart.

The Fog; the fog (Song)

1. I must have been quite blind. Why did I never see the beauty, blurred behind these dirty, run down streets? 2. Dressed in a misty veil, they're...
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The Ella Minnow Pea Problem

I was woken early one morning by a hammering on my back door. I quickly dressed and rushed downstairs, where I found Alun looking agitated state. "It...
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Snowman

Snowman Cocooned and tucked away In a chrysalis Snowman melts Sooty are his tears Outside a lacustrine beauty His nose is the first casualty It falls...

Party On (Modern religious song)

1st Verse: They say the party’s over; say that it’s time to leave; turn off the lights and music but I really believe... There is a house called...

Everyday Houdini (Song)

1. Everyday Houdini; everyday you try to undo the chains you're in right before my eyes. 2. I don't know how you do it. Sometimes I see you cry but...

What you see when you open the window

He notices the light. It's a sparing flame shivering above a wax candle. It does not bother him how the rays ricochets against his brittle eyes. What...
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Inspired by a typo!

[IP: ‘Godwill to all’, but I think it’s meant to be ‘Goodwill to all’!] God’s will of goodwill to all on earth … “goodwill instill in us!”

Chapter 1. Rise

R.E.I.G.N Chapter 1. Rise The first thing that hits me was the scent of rubbing alcohol and as I started to come to, my eyes fluttering open, I also...

The Robber And The Three Boxes

Long ago a man who was a robber came home to his wife, looking disturbed and unhappy. "Why, husband", she asked him, "What has happened to you?". "I...

Postcards

Who taught you that to ignore is worth a merit badge shiny bright and blue. I have watched people falling apart – hitting the floor their saliva...

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