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Grimms 74
Jaz hears the loud screeching and the rising harangue which follows. It woke him up. It wakes the whole tenement block. The smell of cigarette smoke...
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A Bed of Wilted Spinach
Oven on, apron tied securely, all ingredients correctly laid out. In the kitchen, her domain. She looked around approvingly. The marble topped...
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Um, Um, Um, Yummy
I tried to fight it, but my arms were too weak, my mind to slow, my body just wouldn't respond. So, I gave up and let it be and when I did, it was...
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Earth. Live. Neutral.

Earth I was good at rewiring plugs. It was one of the skills that I was admired for in my first job. Stan the man was the boss. He did the Stanley...
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Let it Ride

I began a journal a few months ago at the behest of one of my co-workers. She had gone through a divorce and suggested I write my feelings down each...
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Simple Steps through Life
Simple Steps through Life - By Paul McCann . If you've done wrong - Then admit it . If you've done right . Then stick to it . If you've done bad ...
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Podcasting

Doggerel: A Podcast? FFS! image is from https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Videopodcast_logo.jpg
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Billy

Dialogue: You might say that this is outrageous cultural appropriation. I prefer to call it imagination and attempting a mile in others' shoes. image is CC0 Public Domain no attribution required. image source https://pixabay.com/p-71380/?no_redirect
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Mother Of Compromise
Mother Of Compromise By Paul McCann Mother of compromise, help us to find a way through our troubles in life . Mother of compromise, bring a...
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The Magic Summer Holiday
One sunny Summer, long ago, there was a little boy named Joe who dreamed of going on a holiday. But his Mum just could not afford to have a holiday...
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Patience Strong

Ecky Thump. Image is of a painting "Woman Playing Patience" by Frederick Gowland Hopkins. I don't think he is the Nobel-winning biochemist, but hey, how would that be for a Violin d'Ingres? No known copyright issues. "Patience Strong": Hahaha.
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All-American 2
Riley is the first good thing that happened to me. I study hard to make straight A's, but that does not bring me pleasure. In the morning, I try to...
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All-American 1
Rachel: What seems to be the problem? Derek: I don't have any problems. Rachel: Why are you here then? Derek: My parents sent me here. I'm a straight...
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On the Nature of Work
This Earth, or God's creation as I know it, is taken on the whole: extremely rich and capable of excellence. The brake-man brakes, the weaver weaves...
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iPlastic

iPlastic she was like a barbie doll dumb pony tail bopping to the beat i thought i can’t compete not with that she had all the guys drooling queuing...
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The Creaks of Age
The turned over wastepaper basket wheezed a thousand tiny delicious squeaks as he eased himself down slowly for a moment's repose. A multitude of...
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The Angelus by Jean Francois Millet (1814-1875)

One of my favourite paintings.
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Grimms73
‘You don’t need to be daft and drown yerself. You can just drink the poison to kill yerself.’ Bruno is deft at sneaking up on people and has big lugs...
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Moon Over the Monkey's Back, part 4
In dreams, I still revisit that mountain march, where although immutable constellations of experiential data remain bedded within my psyche, the...
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