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Dreaming the Fake News Country Blues Video

I added a verse to the Fake News Report piece that I posted earlier. I thought it needed more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qSM2vukFM0 Dreaming...

Where they finally got it right

Imagine a place far, far away...

All's Well that Ends Well

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie. "All's Well That Ends Well, Act I, Scene 1"

The In-between

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The world has run through its pathway, And all that is left is the space inbetween. Ever fear, for here you die. Ask why we lie, awake, dishonest,...
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The Giant Pizza Pie

One day while Sally and Susan were playing in their garden; a giant Pizza Pie came floating down out of the sky like a flying saucer. It was made of...

In The Realm Of Symbols - Abstract Fantasy

Within the realm of the abstract there are many strange things; ferocious ideas and symbols that even Mathematics professors have never seen. There...

To my friends’ Spouses with a friend’s love

To my friends’ Spouses with a friend’s love P K Routray To my friends’ loving spouses with earnest apologies for excuses on behalf of your hubby and...

Wanting things heavenly

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series ] Wanting life heavenly, feeling it hell, stress and frustration – nothing goes well: take short vacation,...
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You want to leave a legacy?

My Dad was nearly 93 when he died recently. It was not unexpected given the combination that he was very old and was suffering from a brain tumour as...
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Flare

The headlights picked out individual snowflakes, quivering cotton drops spliced from the gauzy storm and suspended in their yellow orbs. 'You have to...

The Broad

Spring has the promise of a fifties musical. A chorus of girls bloom into a flower, smiling like mint imperials, curls bounce against necks like silk...

Better Yourself

better yourself so you can stare at paintings on therapists' walls worry about tea chests never eat pork pies and laugh at poor people who flash...

The Funeral Buffet

Heard a thud. Ignored it, or pretended I did then, quiet, waiting for the cars to pull up. Silken lilies with flame tongues guard an empty stage,...

Silver lining

Silver lining With some good things comes the happiness, after the struggle Those thousand prayers for correct outcome Those bells rung in...
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Worse Than Death

Obscurity: every megalomaniac’s nightmare

John Tannerman and the German

John Tannerman had been separated from his platoon while he’d been laid up in hospital with the squirting arse disease that was ‘trending in the...

Heat or Warm

Love was hurt and turned to hate … malice melted …
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Eric Braithwaite’s Trousers

“Eric’s given his trousers a name,” someone joked the first time the name tag was spotted stitched into his trousers, by a mother clearly concerned...

Leggings - Night & Day!

local, and some Cockney voices adding to the general miasma.
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Me and Billy

“Snowdrop?” “Okay.” He holds up the little paper bag and I take out one of the lollies. It's round and clear, smooth like a marble, with crystallised...

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