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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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To Pray
As I breathe into this window misting the rain streaks nose catching the chill. I look down and across. A child runs this way, that way through the...
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Why is everything endless?
Strange worlds of repetition and bullshit. Oil and house paint on canvas and hung over a disused light switch. I live in a half made house. The...
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The artist's used brush
From betwixt the secluded island abundant with giants' pinecones, luminous arteries hike up their taut sleeves and stretch with all their might - as...
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What price is honour? Chapter two (2)
The loud shout had come from behind them, and Faultner had no sooner turned around to face it than he had drawn his bow, stringing an arrow as he...
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That is the Door I Will not Go Through
Through the doorway I can see the trunk of a tree two hands round. From its base, grass spreads, today dressed in dew. I’m not sure what’s beyond,...
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Safety Idea : Emmergency lowering jackets for towerblock disasters.
A lowering jacket would be like a life jacket attached to a very long rope. In the event of a towerblock fire, a parent could strap their child...
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Surround Them With Love
Dear diary...I light a candle. My heart dropped when I heard the news, a block of flats gone up in hellish flames; a community – hub of family life...
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What price is honour? Chapter two (1)
a split chapter. The heist is on, and Faultner and Tisza are working together. It's up to him to watch her back, as she is the key to opening the vault.
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The London Borough of Croydon
(I have discovered you can make Lewis Carol poems by putting line breaks into descriptions of heraldry) Argent on a Cross flory at the ends, Sable...
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The Political Season
Although human sufferings and controversies continue through all the months of every year, it would nonetheless be commendable if we could limit the...
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My summer job was as a lifeguard at the swimming pool.
I think the two people in the flat next door are teachers. I see them on the stairs, a canvas bag filled with exercise books I don’t they they’re a...
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Grimms69
Tony dashes up the stairs without meeting anybody, but Bruno, who has been searching for him, spots him from the lobby and clunks up the stairs after...
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Posthumous Pen
We sit sharing your scotch and soul renouncing the new, none nobility who reside down the hall. You colour me a story, about art reflecting life...
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Lost Forever...
You ask me where I am, And honestly I can’t say, For all that are lost, Never find their way. Though the night is dark, And the fields are bleak, The...
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The Chipped Cup
The Chipped Cup She sings a lullaby sweet Purchased on an impulse On Camden Street (A leap towards the hip?) Now her bottom is stained Reaping the...
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Counting down
The sun shines. I wait for death to come, to claim a life gone too soon. She lays still in her borrowed bed, soft breeze strokes slumbering head...
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The downtrodden rose
The downtrodden rose; a flower of power; glowing and growing as tall as a tower; filling me with inspiration and glee. Yes, the downtrodden rose...
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- 356 reads