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Cindy's Answer
CINDY’S ANSWER By Esther A. Provencher DEDICATED: To my daughter, Susan, my first child. STORY: "OK Cindy, I think you'd better go home now. Your mom...
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Abused
I think its important for me to share this because its a bad thing to experience about. And while I'm writing this, I feel its a therapy for my heart...
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This Week.
This week I went to a funeral, and when it is not a close family member there are certain things can be noticed that otherwise would go unnoticed. So...
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a place I never knew
Silence swills in early morning lamplight, catching fog in rays as gulls patrol the cobbled streets; an oversight in fading darkness. Streets filling...
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One More Out of Tune Christmas
It was one more out of tune Christmas He was too drunk to put up a fight When his honey pie said, ‘You’re not sharing my bed! Hang yer stockin’ at...
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The Lucky Snowflake
1. Once a lucky snowflake fell down from the stars above; it tinkled like a crystal bell granting my wish of love. 2. It must have done. It is no...
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The King of Winter
I was the King of Winter, a long, long time ago; built monuments and pyramids from ice and sleet and snow. I was the King of Winter but then the...
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First Snow
Snow beaten thinkers chasing shadows under a cold Winter's moon... wrinkles furrowed on bark, clumps huddled appear to stumble trudging through...
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Ode to Palestine
Ode to Palestine Palestine: The travelling folks of Egypt and Jordan Settled in a rocky terrain They called her promised land; The land promised to...
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The Isolation problem
I was woken early one morning by a hammering on my back door. I quickly dressed and rushed downstairs to find Alun in an excited mood. "It's the Off-...
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Grandpa's Toboggan
A story for ages 4-7 Grandpa’s Toboggan By Esther and Richard Provencher DEDICATION: For all young children who enjoy having stories read to them at...
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Dennis And The Secret Door
Dennis And The Secret Door By Paul McCann Every day Dennis would leave school to have lunch at his Grandmothers house . He loved going there because...
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Father Precious
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Not just a jolly image who’s bringing gifts galore (guffaws that shake his rib-cage ring out around the store), but one who is …
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Sleepover
My friends parents had gone away for the night having a party and wont come back until the next day, meanwhile my friend Zach had invited me to stay...
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Lightning
As my eyes betray my vision, I realise I am cemented in the eye of the vast forest. As the night grew cold and dark, New York’s polluted air filled...
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Mother Of The New Born
Mother Of The New Born By Paul McCann Mother of the new born In your eyes you see the face of that child in front of you . Mother of the new born you...
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The agony and the ecstacy
Back in the early nineties when ecstasy really was ecstasy not that tepid shit that they sell to the kids these days I smuggled a couple of tabs into...
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The Night of the Camel
‘Are you all right?’ Every single member of our twenty-strong cast asked me this question after I fell off the stage, in December 2015. We were...
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Winter Fun (Song)
Verse 1: Polka dots of snow come down; cover up the trees and ground. Pile up just like bubble bath. Through it children run and laugh. Verse 2:...
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The Field
Bent over in a heat haze, a figure trudges through a field of yellow rapeseed.
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