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Dust and Echoes/In the Immediate Distance - Chapter 5
Robb woke up face down on a rather comfortable bed; how he had gotten there eluded him, which was growing more and more worrisome as time went on. He...
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Beautiful, Dream Not In Color
Here is Janine. Janine is 24 and is staying 7 miles away. She recently “ got out ” of a long and semi-abusive relationship with her boyfriend or...
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Mindy Unsworth: Weed
I'm walking home from school when I smell it. A whiff of something like ginger. But it's ginger with teeth, with a decomposing, sour-edged bite. I...
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Magnificent Mother
She was a wonderful woman and I thought the world of her. Until I was forty-one years old, I had a magnificent mother. Before she died, she was...
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Aftermath (Hurricane Katrina) Joy and Sorrow chapter 16
Celeste shook her head as she looked away from the plasma television.The image of New Orleans played out like a made - for - tv disaster movie.Cue...
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Ruby Hearts 2006 Joy and Sorrow Chapter 15
Traffic dawdled along the highway on a dog's day afternoon in august.Trouble brewed for Louisiana and any other state situated along the Delta.A...
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Mother's day 2006 Chapter 14
Celeste lay supine on a deck chair,blissfully flipping through a Maeve Binchy novel.Today was her day to be pampered and her son Sebastian was making...
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In The Lee of Hurricane Mathew
In The Lee of Mathew The offshore winds, from the outer rings of Hurricane Mathew, were whipping the waves into a delightful lacy froth. It is...
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The Happy Island Radio Show Problem
One morning, I was woken early by a hammering on my back door. I quickly dressed and rushed downstairs, to find Alun in an excited state, waving a...
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When You're a Star
Do I really need to explain this?
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Conned? 5
You thought this story was over, didn't you? Well so did I, until I opened my computer on Tuesday morning to find an email from my bank, telling me I...
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Mañana
It was one of those days when I used to say, ‘One of these days now –
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The List
The Home Secretary's list will be nothing like Schindler's ...
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The Thorn of Tomathy
Once, a long time ago in the land of Arbaria, a royal child was born who was named Tomathy and when he was placed before the altar of the Universal...
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THE MADDENING MOON
there have been superstitions that the full moon drives one mad it might cause rage or laughter or to make one deeply sad . but is it purely folklore...
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Sweet Like Honey
Sweet like Honey To sleep is to dream, to dream is to rest, and while within those folds of such peaceful slumber you don’t realise the spooky and...
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Clemens and Farley in the Maze of No Tomorrows
Clemens and Farley in the Maze of No Tomorrows A reckless dummy with painted freckles and crazed eyes - name of Clemens - who babbled more than his...
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Hidden
Not noticed on inspection, Nor found on careful looks, No telltale signs apparent, Nothing read in books, No plaster can repair it, The scars and...
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Morning Afflatus Reflected On My Window
Dazzle of twinkling rays penetrate imagination, chinks in half opened Venetians... a reminder of Sunlight filtering through dappled leaves, for a...
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life blog my ex part 2
We, my ex and I, first moved into nursing accommodation and then a house, before we both decided to get a mortgage. The maisonette rested on the...
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