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hesitation within a comma
There were always conversations between the coffee poured and the morning light filtering through the shadows of the wisp of your hair as it fell...
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Ugly Puggly 86
Laura’s car was parked at the back of the Hub. A red thing, which was the colour of her shoes, small enough for one, but with two doors. The old...
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Cleanse your soul
He really tried his best, but it was impossible. He just could not get interested in the talks and lectures at the ‘Agricultural innovations for...
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Harvest
Eyes are staring at a wall In its depths lies no recognition or recall The limbs no longer working In it's perfect form It's handled with...
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By a kid
By a kid Its intention within its limitation conveys an infant at that very instant crying at a pitch eloquently rich for its mother the best to...
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Employee Of The Month TODD!
My hardworking daughter goes abroad on holiday tomorrow. She had planned everything in detail down to the last item. She had been waiting for a very...
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A Force of Nature
Sinead’s eyes opposite me were wide. Her gaze scattering about the room like an animal frozen in headlights. She looked like the foxes we’d catch...
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No Longer Ozymandias
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My unique point of view I sometimes lose From rock to barmaid yet frequently retain A sense of difference that I blithlely choose but couldn't once,...
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Ugly Puggly 85
I was gagging for the meeting to be over even before it had begun so I could collect the cash. In my head, I slipped in and out with nobody noticing...
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I Recognized it.
I bought a seven-seater car a few years ago. It seemed perfect in every way, it was bought on-line, before it became popular. The car dealer drove it...
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"The Coffee House Spy" 5
Stacy turned from the window and holstered her gun as Brent walked back into the apartment. “Did you get the license plate?” she asked. “I framed a...
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Swings and Roundabouts
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More Than Words.
My Step Dad married my Mum when I was eight years old. I remember my Mum asking me, “Do you want his last name or to keep your surname?” I replied, “...
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Dancing Where The Fairies Dwell
Dancing Where The Fairies Dwell By Paul McCann I’ve still got a chance just as long as you’re here for a dance with the daisies at dawn , when the...
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chemo 11
Not the best of weeks, although the main culprit this week isn’t the cancer or stoma. I hate going to the dentist, and have told my dentist that I...
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In the Vale of the Shadow King (Part Six of Six)
Parts One to Five at: https://www.abctales.com/collection/vale-shadow-king In the Vale of the Shadow King (Part Six of Six) The danger was visceral,...
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Hindrances to Harvest
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Time to sow, and time to reap – promised; but there’s need, we weep – war prevents and malice spoils...
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Alien Murmuration - Chapter 2 (1988)
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Back to Chapter 1 If I carefully consider my life so far I can confidently say that it is firmly and clearly split in two. Everything that happened...
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The Depraved and Dead Dentist
I was a dentist and I molested women while they were under. I heard a bang and I was wrong when I thought it was thunder. I quickly learned that it...
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Ugly Puggly 84.
My throat was sore from breathing and I made whistling noises in the back of my throat as I trudged along towards Dalmuir West. I stopped for a...
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