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Chemo 5
I had an email from my brother-in-law today. It was headed “Sympathy”. It rather startled me because he is a cancer epidemiologist and statistician...
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From 'Good news Sings the Blues'
Jayce continued to travel. He was watched and followed by an ever-increasing multitude. What the flipping fishcake was going on Where did he get the...
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The minute hand

A poem to beging the week picture from pixabay
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The Book of Love

Did you write it? I don't believe in him upstairs either. Whatever the book says. Image created at canva from pd elements.
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The sun
The sun soars, My skin roars. One Side burns The other Numb. The sun is free, Guaranteed no fee, Yet I sit out, Protection none.
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The Gift

The Gift (14.08.2022) Here, hold out your hands, I have a gift for you that slips like sand. Quick, don’t take a breath, you’ll let it fall and make...
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Sunday
Sunday don't go away cant you please just stay let be Sunday for just another day now Monday don't you come i want more Sunday fun just being lazy...
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Sable Sailing
As a young sophomore at Southern Oregon University I had long blonde hair, a charming smile, some ideas and book learning; and an adventurous spirit...
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Yet More Bonkers Moments
An absolute peach this morning. One journalist had been sent to cover the heat wave in Scarborough and the only question she was asked by the studio...
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Charmed (Part Two of Two)

Audio version at: https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/charmed-part-two Part one at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/charmed-part-one-two...
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Antique Record Changer

I bought a record changer on ebay. It's an antique that was made in 1957. It was made by Columbia and it's automatic. It's so old that it has vacuum...
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At this time

mid-season doodle
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Contemplation

A squirrel would know the spirit of a tree, its inner thoughts...a language so free. As I sweltered in extreme heat – local oak informed me: “autumn'...
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Pepper Perished
Lung cancer ended his life, that's a terrible thing to go through. He starred as the bully who beat up Clark Kent in "Superman II". In 1977, he...
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“Therefore we do not lose heart …”*

[A day early for the hymn-for-Sundays series as may be offline for a week] A glorious task, such gospel to make known … So we do not lose heart – these times are brief and joy will be eternal, free of grief.
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Ulf and Sven and Eurovision Song Contest
Sven: ( offstage ) "Ulf. Ulf." (enter Sven) Sven: "Turn the TV on Ulf, it's the Eurovision Song Contest." Ulf: "Surely you don't want to watch that...
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"dominates all" -tanka
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1:2:1 Illia (Part 2)
Destiny was suspiciously quiet. Lore looked over to Char, they were both braced. Char nodded and Lore activated the drive. And then they were there...
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1:2:1 Illia (Part 1)
Yawning. Char hadn’t even left the bridge but it was obvious she was more tired than she had let on. Staggering in her sightlessness, she retired to...
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