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A Stage Played

​Melissa was waiting for her friend Lara and she had been waiting a while so she dialled and rang her friends` mobile which rang and rang. Melissa...

Qurdarian

(A possible series I am playing around with.) “This is not a story of revenge. My home was not burned down. My loved ones were not raped or murdered...

Diamond Daughter 1

I'm really good at math. I'm damned good at math. My father is a very smart man, but he never went to college. He taught me math when I was very...

One Fine Day 6

Yes, I definitely do feel it. I am being stalked. I don't like the feeling of being chased though. Isn't the male the one who is supposed to do the...
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Who would you Pledge? (Part 2 (End)

Ryan and I didn't make many trips in to the woods after that. For one, his mother found his nail-riddled bat. And soon after that, the district built...
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Grimms71

A couple of days pass, then a week, in which Jaz does little more than alternate between pubs and empty glasses follow him. Maggie Scott’s for...
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I Know Why He Runs

I know why he runs He wins at every step A victory in every racking breath One foot in front of the other There are little snaps in time In which he...
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A New 'Dada' Dawns

The sun that rose this morning (on the sick and the well) : on the jubilant and on the mourning is the same that nourished the ancient flowers of...
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To those who lost their footing

I’m spending more and more time telling myself I no longer care.
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Strange and Familiar Faces

This is not my face. This one that looks back at me out of the mirror. I mean I know it is my face. There’s been numerous counselling sessions and...
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A Day in the Garden

Maybe there was a shift in the wind. Perhaps a tiny misjudgement. Could be you were tired, but you bounced off the stem of a flower and lost forward motion. A tumbling drop and you land on a soft surface that feels like nothing you’ve ever felt before. (Image courtesy of Wiki commons)

The lifting of the Curtain: Chapter one (1)

A split chapter. Steffanes ingriade is a twenty year old junior officer of the Gardenan army, and feels the weight of expectation upon him. On his first assignment, it's his task to live up to his father's reputation.

I'll Wait For You

I'll Wait For You . by Paul McCann . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4N8OffOzuc What can I do to get it through to you . My love is true I hope that...

Paper Gymnasts

Do you remember the cherry blossoms scented on the bedroom floor. Lipstick slogans painted red against the sallow of your skin. A kiss that slips...

Beth Tree and the Elgars 2

Before I attended my first music lesson with Mr. Elgar, in 1896, I questioned my older sisters about what he was like as a teacher. “He was employed...
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Candy Floss Me

Like candy floss pressed between warm and wet lips, Held in your tight embrace, I dissolve, Losing all the colours that crafted my dreams, Losing all...
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The Princess And The Golden Bird

Once, upon her 18th birthday, a Queen gave her daughter, Princess Rosette a present of a magic golden cockateel that, she said, would predict the...
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The coalition 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...
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Grimms 70

Jaz figures he’ll need to take driving lessons, not right away, but sometimes soon. He could buy one of those fancy Jaguar cars now. Pay cash. He’s...

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