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Strange Flotsam
A short story prompted by an item in my local newspaper. ***** Tired from her overnight shift at the care-home Bell rubs her eyes in disbelief at the...
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The Cremation of Sam McGee"
“The Cremation of Sam McGee” - by Robert W. Service The Poem opens with a rhyming Octet explaining the subject of the work: There are strange things...
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Friday at 8
It's years since I went to one of these... I'm quite glad Genuine edits 26/11/2018: dangling participle de-participled, line break inserted some italicisation. . Image licence CC-SA 3.0 from Wikipedia. Author Salvabi
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Time After Time
Image is Sarah Bernhardt as L'Aiglon and in the Public Domain... It's just something mentioned in the poem, that's all...
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Dogs of War
I wrote this short story after finding an old postcard – sent from the front during WW1. The brave unnamed soldier asked about his Wife, and getting...
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Maelstrom 1 - Nevada
First chapter of this year's NanoWriMo book, Maelstrom. Day 1 can be found here. Part I Nick’s New Employer 1. Nevada I suppose I should start with...
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Retirement
Retirement P K Routray Erroneous is our understanding of the word “Retirement,” if it is to stop pursuing dream and achievement. if it is to stop...
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Friendship can be a Foe
That winter day Light snow falling In the University Parks Me in my Norwegian Trawlerman Polo Neck Wrapped with a tartan scarf You said I looked like...
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Café sounds
Always waiting
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A King Amongst The Cabbage Heads
a kind of king image writer's own from two pd images pixabay and allpdimages.
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The morning after the night before
The morning after the night before i don’t hear the alarm click on and wake with a start twenty minutes later which means i have to rise swiftly and...
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Lead me
Lead me Lord into the path of righteousness, where the pastures are green with life, where the pastures are like beds which give deep sleep. Wicked I...
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The Eden Sky - 3 - An Auspicious Day
Alexa held her chin in her hands, a strained look crossing her face as an audible 'Hmmmm' permeated the space. "Alright people, can we have your...
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Top supernatural power
‘Throw down your stick – it will become a snake’, and it did. The magicians by their secret arts did likewise, but Aaron’s stick ate up the rest...
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Genocide
Smaller and smaller walking away yellow dress blowing freely in the wind You said – (my mama ) that dignity is not to be found in fear. Words that...
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Grimms 103
Representing the Crown and prosecuting for the Fiscal Office, Queen’s Counsel Montrose appears born to the era of wigs and absentmindedly fingers the...
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If I Could Take A Day
My love and I go fretting after the late summer sun, then into the dusk of the West Yorkshire towns. Morley, Horbury, Dewsbury. The night turns, but...
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Maelstrom - Prologue
Hi All, One and only plug, I promise. I'm running a crowdfunding campaign to help my publisher Aberrant Literature (first time indie publisher) with...
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The gig
May as well, I suppose.
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Crafting With Ed
I had a dream the other night that when I woke did not slip away as they so often do. This particular dream, not the result of a late night coffee or...
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