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Grimms64
Jaz is gagging for the first pint of the day, but is stuck in traffic, enclosed in a bubble of the front seat of a red Volkswagen. Del is driving...
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THE GREATEST AMERICOEN HERO

THE GREATEST AMERICOEN HERO Dedicated to Joel and Ethan Coen, and all who enter their universe. Hero: In mythology and legend, a man, often born of...
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A LANGE TIME AGO

REMEMBERING LIFE UNDER A SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC REVOLUTION: A LANGE TIME AGO Photo By Archives New Zealand - Flickr: David Lange, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://...
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NEW YORK, NEW WORLD

CHAFF/MASSEY UNIVERSITY VALEDICTORY FEATURE (2009): Photo used with kind permission By Daniel Schwen - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons...
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Missing out
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Missing out Twenty five years ago I knew a man, a homeless alcoholic. He was fifty odd years of age. He told me he had started drinking as a teenager...
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More Hands Make For Lighter Work

Those times they were hard back then never had no tractor to work the ground; digging out peat with bare hands, fuel for the fire our only desire,...
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Lenny Mass's Branhal School Diary - Monday 1 December
Monday 1 December: I got on the bus this morning, and sat, like I always did, next to Nettie. I turned to say good morning, and nearly jumped. My...
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Conned 2 - part 1
Conned! 2 - part 1 I do have something to write about – and I have already provided you with the first part of it . I posted it in late September and...
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Mudbath (Part 2)
In January of sixty-nine Jennifer showed up in her Jaguar and asked Claude to do six oil paintings. She was very meticulous about getting them right...
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The Silent Stream
The Silent Stream By Paul McCann . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0wBGHNvZiA . Sadie met her husband , Sean , while they were both working at the...
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Caiman's bazaar
A strong wind buffeted the Maroon 1994 Rover as it wound its way towards the small seaside town of Donregal where Hugh Adlington and his wife Miriam...
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A stitch in time …

… (and of horse-shoes etc)
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Mudbath (Part 1)
‘Bottom’ was auctioned in August of 1965 and sold for a wobbling 12,000 dollars. It was a 3 x 1.5 m glass framing with a 3D craft of a coral seabed...
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Jacaranda tree
A jaguar is napping near the jacaranda tree while pretty coloured parakeets are flapping happily; an anaconda crawling in the grass is going hiss...
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A little hare
A little hare hopped to the top of a hill till he stopped at the top and he stood very still then he flapped both his long, floppy ears and, its true...
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Lenny Mass's Branhal School Diary - Sunday 30 November
Sunday 30 November: I've not been writing in this diary for the past week. We've had so much homework, that I've had to abandon my diary to get it...
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The silence of the bees revisited

One night I had a dream in which we were scientists. The world was falling apart and people were looking to us for answers. The disintegration...
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Bricks and water
Bricks and water: This town is built with The ratio unknown Mighty forests burnt Ashen Bricks and water This town is built with Bricks on the backs...
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Ploughman á la carte
Ploughman á la carte I shared with your mama. Raw onions, cheese and orange chutney. Springtime, in hackney We kissed French kind Twenty years gone...
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