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Panic
At 6 am a jogger wearing a blue track outfit, huffs past a Victorian house with green-gabled trim, waves to a paperboy leading his terrier, skirts a...
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Adopt a Tiger (3)
Susan had seen Billy the Pie around, obviously. He was the purple-haired clown at the end of her street, the one with the clown car outside his house...
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Adopt a Tiger (2)
Susan rang the emergency number on the tiger cage. "There's been a mistake," she said. "I signed up to adopt a tiger and you've delivered the tiger...
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tragic
tragic our lives are tragic, starving artists overlooked die in poverty they are buried as paupers - then - too late - gain cult status our lives are...
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Worlds Apart
When I hear about people having to flee their country because of poverty, wars or cruelty, it makes me feel so sad, but lucky to live here in England...
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Soul Circles
The sun was setting. They had reached a stretch of desert. She wasn’t familiar with any deserts in the area. Groups of people were gathered in circles across the stretch as several black cars dotted their outlines. Some looked to be around her age. Older ones seemed to stay close to the cars. "Excuse me?" she asked a woman with long grey bushy hair. "How do I get to-" "Follow your instructors kid and join one o' the circles," the raspy voice said as the woman lit up another cigarette.
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Clementine and her Stalker Chapter One
CLEMENTINE and her STALKER Chapter One I was leaning on the railings when I first saw her. Just idly watching the ducks paddle down the stream...
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Clementine and her Stalker

A chance encounter on Stamford Meadows one sunny summer morning changes Tony Williams' life in ways he could scarcely have imagined.
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Captured for Freedom!

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] I’m bound to my Lord, so now I am free! – I’m free of the hold, the old misery of gripping temptations, sin’s harsh slavery: a servant of Jesus has real liberty! …
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Summer Comes
Suffused with morning’s gleam I rest upon a back porch where snowy remnants melt away in last days of huddled crystals once rampant as a runaway kite...
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Head I lose, tail I lose
Head I lose, tail I lose “Head I lose, tail I lose” Me, the recalls oft amuse the recalls of all my losses to my elder brother over tosses. The craft...
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Adopt a Tiger (1)

Susan was in the kitchen when the door rang. She wasn't expecting anybody, nobody much called round these days, so she didn't hurry. When she got to...
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Disgraceful Behavior
Before Donald Trump was inaugurated, some people made a commercial that I found to be disgraceful. On this commericial, some actors asked at least...
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Kids’ Contrasts

The giraffe is tall, the fly is small, the sun gives light – so it’s dark at night. The snail is slow – but watch the cars go – fast! – keep away!...
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May 8th 1945
May 8th 1945 the nation filled the streets waving flags in celebration - at last the bloody war was won brass bands belted God Save The King, while...
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Anyway, plagiarism
People only see what you want them to see, that's the problem with psychosis you are convinced that people see what you don't want them to see, it's...
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Hangin' Around (6)
Previous Chapter 6. Maggie’s Revenge Herb Withers watched in horror as Jerimiah raised his hitherto unto used pistol. The barrel was pointed right at...
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Snappy
On a clear-sky late morning, in fact almost noon, there is excitement in the air. Lunch is waiting. Working at the Home for Aged in Petrolia, has its...
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Anyway
Remembering now, after thirty years of antipsychotic medication and finally being well enough not to need it.How I stood in Sarah's mothers allotment...
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Latest Journal entry for "living in the time of the Corona"
Latest journal entry for "Living in the Time of Corona" Friday, September 18, 2020 It is a cool, fifty degrees, with brilliant sunshine, here in WNY...
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