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Dreckly (Part One)
McLaurin Rowe glanced at the new email and misunderstood its single word. His disbelief did not diminish after opening and closing it several times...
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Beautiful Doll
Song titles in italics - Image of Amsterdam from Pixabay - No attribution required
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The Slippery World of Superstition
Superstitions are distorting, fluid things, whose meaning cannot often be grasped in the decades after they may have been recorded. Unlike the folk...
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Deep and Crisp and Even (Conclusion)
When he heard about this he went and set the house on fire and grimly watched the whole lot perish: wife and bairns and the bloody Hanoverian dogs...
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Frustrating world
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Birth and death, and peace and war – life on earth flows back and for' …
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Ingrate
All the time You try to hold, They try to fly, away With the wings That you gave 'em When they used to cry. All the time You try to hold, They try to...
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My friend
It was the red lips that drew my eyes as she mouthed thank you to the cashier. I drew a breath as my heart sank into my stomach. Her smile was as...
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Precious Plum
Her name is Plum, she's six years old and she's a beauty queen. But she and her mama are two of the dumbest people I've ever seen. They are so dumb...
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Creeping death
More heartfelt cheer...
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A Mustard Seed and the Kingdom of Heaven
Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God or with what comparison shall we compare it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which when it is sown in...
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Cheetah
The lady walked in. She was relatively innocent looking. She explained to me, while glancing around my shoppe nervously, that she wanted a reading to...
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Owen
It still took her back there, every time she heard sirens. Back to darkness and rain, the wet road, coarse and cold beneath helpless fingers. To the...
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Barricades
Not the delicate hint of rose’s petals curled, faded edges of brown. Chairs scrape along the cold hard floor people leaving before their final...
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Jocasta's Reading
UPDATED 3 Jan 2020 : the footnote appears in the original version never posted. I wouldn't swear it makes anything clearer... GOOD! Experimental, ergodic. Image is in the Public Domain:
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Stantonica 4
London Airport was the only airport in the country. It had one runway. I sat in the wooden hut cafe where I bought a cup of coffee. A flight departed...
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Stantonica 3
It was my first day at Yorkshire Bible College. The college was out in the country. The bus ran there once every 2 hours. Having braved the long...
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Countryside (spoiled)
Thorny hedges Uncut grass Smell of rain And broken glass Scattered by the road A soaking piece of paper Ink crawling off its edge I see a single...
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Reunion
Rode like the clappers around the dam, away from her and her drilling Yes Dear's but mostly from the funny starred man of yesteryear Now another...
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An American in Paris
An encounter at a book launch in the American Library, Paris...
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The Ghosts and Mrs Calendar
There once was an old woman, an old widow, named Mrs Calendar, who knew all the ghosts in her old house. She knew poor Tom, the little boy who lived...
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