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Grimms 103

Representing the Crown and prosecuting for the Fiscal Office, Queen’s Counsel Montrose appears born to the era of wigs and absentmindedly fingers the...
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If I Could Take A Day

My love and I go fretting after the late summer sun, then into the dusk of the West Yorkshire towns. Morley, Horbury, Dewsbury. The night turns, but...
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Maelstrom - Prologue

Hi All, One and only plug, I promise. I'm running a crowdfunding campaign to help my publisher Aberrant Literature (first time indie publisher) with...
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The gig

May as well, I suppose.

Crafting With Ed

I had a dream the other night that when I woke did not slip away as they so often do. This particular dream, not the result of a late night coffee or...

A Friend or a Foe

A Friend or a Foe P K Routray Dissipates man much power of his thought on his enemies and the ploys they may plot. Enemies to a man can be internal...

Embassy Kings

Old, found in a cupboard under the stairs. Just behind the photograph album I no longer have. They were Kings. CC-SA-2.0 photographer here
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The Rook-Coat King

Odd. There, I told you. Image source is Wikipedia Commons, it shows a lithograph by Swain which is in the public domain.

No Room at the Infirmary

I come to, slowly. I’m groggy and I hurt all over. The harsh lighting hurts my eyes. The combined smells of antiseptic, industrial strength cleaning...
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The Eden Sky - Part 2 - Old Friends

Mila looked around and noticed that Alistair and Alexa looked pensive. A twitch of the jaw and the occasional glance at the floor. She’s worried...

How Do I Write “Mother”

How do I write “mother” I’ve painted this, the word it’s image birthed with watered pigment; reds and orange blackish browns, set within the line of...

Democracy's Renaissance and its Reaction

Michelle Obama and Prince Harry are two of my favorite people: both champions of actual democracy, multi-culturalism, and disability rights. We youth...

Paint and Pellets

New York, 31 Oct/1 Nov 2017 Image is collage made from two images taken from Wikipedia Commons. Paint pellets Qz10 in acc w/CC A-SA 3.0 BB slugs Ari x in acc w/CC A-SA 3.0
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Kilkenny Fried Killing

Kentucky Kilkenny Fried Killing The Friday night twilight shift – 8pm to 2am closing time plus the end of day clean up – in the city’s cheapest fried...
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an armful of hopes

an armful of hopes words, have coop-flown scarce this year. i catch sight of them, clustering; a sweeping murmur for the blue hour. oftentimes, a...
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Room 7. ( Kiss Chase)

When I was seven years old I played “Kiss Chase”. I chased the girls and when I caught them we kissed. They were easy to catch because they wanted to...

Mother Of All Saints

Mother Of All Saints By Paul McCann Mother of all saints for the faithful departed grant them eternal rest . Mother of all saints remember the names...
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The last walk

Once death came for a man and as they walked along the road leading from his house they passed a rainbow. "Wait", said the man to death, "I have not...
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The Eden Sky - Part 1 - A Less Than Graceful Wakening

A shrill hiss of air woke Mila from her dreamless slumber as the cryo-pod she was encased in rose from its bay and greeted her with the bright,...
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