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The People Who Live In Trees
The world is divided it seems between those who live in trees and those who do not. Hidden in the middle of a forest in a place that most of us don’t...
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The Stranger
The Stranger By Paul McCann Call him the stranger . Is he a danger ? Is it really true ? So what did he do ? He’s just a stranger . It seems so...
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A Menacing Rush
A Menacing Rush began as a vagabond flame in a forest about to lose its dreams where creatures act out of fear inside a forest fire bold in its...
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Scandals
Leopards, spots, an old fool will have been a young fool. Best of luck working it out. Image in acc with CCA-SA 3.0 Source Wiki-commons user Arkines~commonswiki
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The Mermaid in the Doorway
The mermaid in the doorway Swishing her quilted tail Propped up she blinks Away the days As winter nights hold hands Stewed she melts the world To...
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Amphisbaena
Amphisbaena She approached from behind Argus-eyed on both ends Stalking her early morning prey. The Queen of arid lands Amphisbaena by thy name...
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The Beach
I find the beach stimulating, energizing especially when the tide swathes the shoreline, caressing the pebbles with its foaming softness. There is...
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La Bomba
A piece of very strange writing. Hope you enjoy!
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A Star
A star, a brilliant ball dawn afternoon dalliance: You are like Donatello's David, striking a vogue pose, looking more bored after than before. How...
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- 410 reads
Table Manners
Dinner as guests of the captain is part of the package. For just 250 words on the appeal of European river cruises Adele secures a Prize Winner Plus-...
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Cats and Dogs
Pixabay image - No attribution required.
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Measuring The Fish
Item on puffins on BBC today. This is only tangentially about puffins. image is from Pixabay, used under CC0, no attribution required.
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Ackerman's Passage
I should remember the color of your eyes All the time swimming hypnotized Lost sight of surface tints and hues Drowning in the deeper parts of you...
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I Lay in the Grass
I Lay in the Grass and count strands of green Dragon flies landing on my arm a shriek pending from this ten-year-old panic prepared to erupt-- the...
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She
She was a star at dawn, a flower's first bloom in spring, a newborn puppy. She knew only of what it was to be happy, generous, lovely. Her heart was...
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Sun Spider
The Sun's a big spider of gold on a ceiling of blue. She comes down when the world gets cold to weave a web, its true. She weaves a web of ice and...
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The fairy in the Garden
The fairy in the Garden Susan looked out of the window; it was a dry and sunny Saturday and the school holidays had just begun. “No school today and...
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The fairy who lost her memory
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The fairy that lost her memory It was a bright and warm Saturday and Peaches was walking through the woods, on her way back to the fairy castle where...
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How To Keep Life Real
We construct lives of fantasy around us. I write a long story about a better life, a place I would like to live in, where people are really free and...
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Lightning bolts (Weather IP)
Oh, lightning bolts that crackle and crash; that land with a jolt and a flickering flash. It fills me with won- der; with thrills and with fears...
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- 493 reads