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Light in Darkness
Plot’s failure many celebrate by fine displays of colourful light brightening up the sky at night – a sparkling starry vivid sight … soon Christmas comes – the silent night a few poor shepherd’s sudden sight and hearing of …
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The 'Wand'
some flash fiction
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One Tick Short of a Tock
Senior moment Friday evening. Had planned to go to Elgin Cathedral on the ‘free entry’ deal on Saturday. Bus there, eyes peeled for bow-fiddle rock...
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A Bonfire in a Park by the Lake
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Bus Pass Has a Mystery to Solve
Bus Pass was cock-a-hoop. A doubler! Two top deck trips in the same week. This time, two whole hours, to a big town. There would be shops. Cafés...
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"Willow's Missing Tail" 22
There was just over an hour and a half left before sunset when the doorbell played Beethoven’s Für Elise. Perfidia’s eyes widened and she looked at...
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Lordy Lordy - Buses
I was woken by Box with my tray of coffee, toast, and assorted toast adornments. "Thank you Box," I said, expecting him to go away, the B oxes of...
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A spark in the dark
They are giving Corinne a new drip, I have to go, they don’t want me to watch. My child! Each time she gets poked, I’m sent away, a rabbit caught in...
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I HATE YOU!
“I hate you,” Those are very strong words, is there a stronger way to say it? Loath? Detest? Abhor? Despise? I was in the office at work, many months...
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Part V "Paddy" Putting Paddy to rest
Part V- Requiem for Paddy Putting Paddy to rest June 8 th , 2004 All Hands, Patrick M. Martin was buried this morning, Tuesday, June 8th, 2004, at...
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Part IV - struggling with the bureaucracy
Part IV- Requiem for Paddy Struggling with the bureaucracy. Original Message----- > From: JXMartin > Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 10:03 AM >...
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He Was
He was: smaller than life, older than Springtime, some the wiser, found for words, front for good, scruffy as ninepence, as timid as brass, as hate...
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Faith in Who? Why?
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Faith in a Father whose Son walked this earth, and showed us His kindness, displayed His true worth. Faith...
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The Friday Murder Club
Friday was a blah day. Dull white, running with rain and water-laden mist. A day to stay home, light candles, tidy for the weekend. Except, I couldn’...
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In The Olden Days.....
In the olden days… I was in my local superstore late last night, as I approached the tills, to go to the self-service, I saw a young child, making a...
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The Last Night
Chapter 2 Ariel The Taken 3 Ariel lay upstairs, bathed in moonlight, flawless, well not quite. Four long vertical scars marred the otherwise perfect...
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The Future of an Illusion
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As always, in the days before you arrive, I fall ill. A premonitory sign of the melancholy to come. Some part of me is staging an intervention. But...
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Part III- telling the family of Paddy's passing
“Telling the family of Paddy’s passing” Practical matters set in order, after I was advised that Paddy had passed on. I sent e-mail missives to a few...
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Breast, not Beast
Not sure why I stopped listening to music in my kitchen, but it has been ages since I did. During Covid, music became unbearable. Perhaps the stream...
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Bonfire - IP
My mother and stepfather had built a life in a place called Gata, a quiet little village tucked into the mountains of Extremadura. The town was like...
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