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The Ministry of Wellness
Image: Creative Commons A writing exercise, where you take the first line of someone else's story and use it as your own. I borrowed a first line from my favourite novella by Mikhail Bulgakov.
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Nature's Beauty
What a nice, auspicious day So in here we can stay What a bright, stunning sunshine Where beauty and peace combine When trees stand there non-skew...
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08.1 Rosario
Another use of a bedsheet is to wrap it like a robe. Madeleine wrapped it behind her back and around the chest, pulled the corners over the neck and...
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I Am Treated
to a feast of pleasure- I can hear the delicate flapping from an eagle the way a baby cries a love of life little one with wiggles and jiggles. I...
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One Small Hole
The surge burned. Energy equivalent to a thousand suns passed through their living conduit. Although only theirs for a moment, it was more than...
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Heaven and Earth
Progress was slow. Faster than expected but slow nonetheless. Lore was furiously slamming their fingers against the keyboard, modelling the changes...
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Breaking New Ground
Emergency red glow. The lighting situation had changed so suddenly that Char, Varkral and Juror were all nearly completely blinded by the change;...
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Legend of the Pah - 3 (S T Vasectomy Clinic)
‘What word?’ ‘Doesn’t matter. Robert won’t want it. A Ford Crapri! That’s what we always called them. Honestly Alistair, you’re so deluded, he’s not...
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The Nomad
The Nomad Everything was to be burned in the fire. The backpack was wearing on him now and the straps gripped his shoulders as if pleading. He ran...
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The Janus Look 5
A week has passed since I was told that my colon has followed my face in having two distinct aspects. My face is a bit better this week. A few more...
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Will you say a little Prayer for me
A little prayer because you believe In a God is merciful and kind But I don’t believe in anything in that kind I don’t believe in a God He doesn’t...
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07.4 Mazzikin
Marina woke up to find that woman in bed, thin pair of legs wrapped around a pillow. She left food in the dinette. Marina washed up and sat by the...
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Winners And Losers, Did I Win?
About three years ago I started getting phone calls from abroad from call centres, the calls were about PPI, Surveys, Broadband, gas or electric...
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answering machine
My online pals joke phones are called mobile for a reason. Mine is a ten-quid model. Any drug dealer in prison would be proud of it. Top-up and Pay-...
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Russian Propaganda! by Alfred N(azi?) Muggins
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Take it with a pinch of salt, don’t believe any of it, cause it could really screw your head up! Make you think everything you ever knew before was...
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A Stitch In Time, Saves Eighteen.
Our Daughter Meghan bought us a dishwasher four years ago, I usually empty the dishwasher in the mornings first thing, even before I feed the cats! I...
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One minute
one minute it snowing one minute its not one minute I'm hot one minute I'm not one minute its gray skies one minute its blue skies one minute the sun...
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Poppy's Smile
I have set myself the challenge of writing a ghost story a month in 2022. This is the third.
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Believe
You see your journey all around don't feel down golden sky you can survive and the road ahead is clear take a breath and fly on the sliver clouds...
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The Wanderer or The Exile’s Lament
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