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Cassiolta - 1

I used to imagine that I was in love with him. A strange target for a young girl to choose. We who are supposed to set our sights on handsome princes...
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Mummy

mummy the sun is shining today can we go out and play yes we can my darling come here and hold my hand mummy that was a good day you go to sleep now...

03.6 Photographer

Jamal returned to his lodge and poured a vodka orange as he ran out of tomato juice. He felt those itches heavy on his nape. He had not worn a...

Freedom

This is another revisited piece from back in 2015. Picture from pixabay. Freedom Locked up like a prisoner, she cries. Dressed in nothing but pyjama...

If at First

It was raining. Minutes ago, the sky had been perfectly clear, the sun in the sky, but then Reality came and created a cloud and that cloud had...

Paradoxical Paper Tigers

“What a rush.” The same thought echoed through all of their minds. Lore had never felt this sort of power. Sixty two entities now sharing the same...

War! : More Thoughts by Alfred N.Muggins

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6/3/22 Apparently the Great Leader has pronounced that War is no longer to be called War? Many millions of people across Ukraine, in particular, and...

The Storm

As the rain pelted against the window, I listened to the wind roar. The sycamore sapling outside the sitting room window was almost bent at a ninety-...

I can hear the cry

I can hear the cry I can hear cry oh lord I can hear the cry i can hear the cry when I see children with tears ruining down their faces I can hear...
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Think about us

Think about us this is just us you say I am insane but you don't think that your just saying for a matter of fact that you want to avoid what this is...

03.5 Photographer

Marina climbed down the stairs under the pergola sharp at four. She wore a pleated figure skimming tennis dress, white shoes and a bag on her...
Gold cherry

The Poet's Ear

Flash fiction (300 words)
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Cherry

502 Kilometres

502 Kilometres Just up the road from my wife and me A fire’s burning constantly Folks just like us are in the street No food to eat Nowhere to sleep...
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Gold cherry

The other half

He stared out from behind the glass of a small frame, the picture taken 22 years ago as he stood on a beach, the sea behind him beneath a cloudless...
Cherry

Junk Jewellery

Come upstairs with me, I’ll show you my junk jewellery. Overflowing from a box which looks like leather. Gold and shiny, sparkling, like something...
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A Day Trip

An old poem from my poetry collection "Cherry on Top" - (Edited)
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May you live all the days of your life

This is a piece is one I wrote in 2017 that I have revamped and hopefully made better. picture from pixabay May you live all the days of your life...
Cherry

War makes insomniacs and bad poetry

I woke up and 4 am last night, my stomach in a knot over the news of the last week. This poured out of me on the Notes app on my phone. I always turn to poetry when I'm anxious, I find it unfiltered and visceral. It's neither good nor reasoned, but that's okay, it's one of my best therapeutic tools.
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03.4 Photographer

It was the end of the fasting month and the visitors celebrated Eid according to their Islamic practices – a day for merry-making to mark the break...

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