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Watching the Elephant
The strange relationship between our animalistic nature and our Olympian pretensions takes many forms. The anthropomorphic tendancies of some pet...
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Any Hard Task

It was still an up-hill pull with determined will to fully fulfil the task undertaken and reach the top not stop or flop or trip or slip or sleep,...
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The Gate
This gate has kept me safe you see when times were bad it look after me to know that it was a lock was so reassuring to me this gate made be only...
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Thunder in paradise (part 1)

Mike Reid, of Reid and associates, was quite aware that his employees were doing their darndest to help make his law company the best in town. He had...
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The Art of Noises : A Futurist's Manifesto

“In antiquity, life was nothing but silence. Noise was really not born before the 19th century, with the advent of machinery. Today noise reigns supreme over human sensibility.” Luigi Russolo Not for much longer. I am equivocal about that. Image is from google books, the book is out of print and in the public domain.
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Remus and The Wolf Part 1
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Tales from The Enchanted Forest of Secret Wishes Tale One Remus and the Wolf Part One Remus Elderberry’s backpack danced on his shoulders.The brittle...
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Ugly Puggly 64
We walked over to Molly’s. It had been warm that day and I wanted to stretch my legs. Ugly Puggly gave us a couple of slices of blue-moulded bread to...
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Detritus
Tommy was lying dead on the floor in his condemned flat that stank of rotting flesh. There was dead cat by his side that probably took a few days to...
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A Question, Of Sorts

Archibald drives home a point and Josiah misses his turn
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A Ghostly Apparition

It was still quite dark.
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Reminiscence

Pip was guilt ridden. She couldn’t meet the eyes of her mother, Kathy, or aunt, Lorraine, after Sinead’s death. Pip couldn’t forgive herself for...
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Into the Light
Twilight not just an apparition but a true taste of Nature silent as a bat flipping wings into the solace of a glassy lake- colours whispering in our...
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Ugly Puggly 63
‘It’s the police,’ Ugly Puggly whispered and giggled. We were soon rolling about the floor laughing as if we were hiding from the Provy cheque man...
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A Most Mysterious Murder
Crime doesn't pay.
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Time Tunnels

. Time Tunnels By Paul McCann Somewhere there’s a place in a quiet corner of the world where thoughts are collected and returned in heavenly swirls...
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Turkish Dancing! Part 1: The Evening of Day 1 / The End of Chill Day! By Alfred N.Muggins
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13/5/22 The Turkish Folk Music was fantastic. The hotel entertainment group danced beautifully to it, circling hands, and footsteps. Those marvelous...
So, so still

She was so still. Leo looked at his baby girl over her cot and couldn’t believe he had finally gotten her to sleep. He looked at his little miracle...
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The Ultimate Revenge

Lisa came home from work at six to a very romantic dinner her betrothed had so lovingly prepared. It was the fifth anniversary of the day they first...
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Scorning the warning

‘Put Micaiah in the prison.’ (For his warning Ahab spurned.) ‘Give him only bread and water, until safely I’ve returned.’ …
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Discovery

I went out to try to find myself. And I found myself, two storeys up, in a compact, one-bedroom flat, overlooking the sea. # But to begin: I suppose...
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