The Long and the Short of It...
By Ewan
Stuff that doesn't fit in the other ones... what did you think?
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Rant
A self-justificatory rant... ill-justified, no doubt... but they all teach the same kind of writing... don't they?
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Bloom
This started life as a complicated flash-back format piece with the clunky device of a ferris wheel joining the present sequences with the past. This is more linear.
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Take Care
A giant left yesterday... not many get an adjective named after them.
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Brown Shoes on Sunday
conflict...
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Duet
A concrete type effort probably won't work...
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A Quantum of Sonnet
Effort at a Sonnet...
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The New White Punks
I think if the band had been British and had seen the riots this year, they might have changed the words.
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'I Don't Know What Goes on in your Head, Sometimes.'
No song titles in this one either... Yes, it was spelt incorrectly in the comic.
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10 Things (IP)
Born Valladolid, 1420, Died Avila, 1498.
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21°C
a short piece about nothing at all...
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3 Character Sketches
Just another exercise...
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3-6-9
just a story... Photo is PD
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A Haunting
Roermond, Holland circa 1966...
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A Lunch at the Ivy
How it works... no, really!
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A Modest Proposal
hmm... as well whistle down the wind.
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A POEM OF GENIUS?
NOW I think we all know who this one is dedicated to/inspired(?) by...
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A Polysyllabic Spree
One Salim Meghani posts a lot of computer-oriented (i think) factual/academic/for-all-I-know-extremely-learned pieces on ABC. I just love the titles. So this one is for Salim... Image is from Slideshare and is free for non-commercial use. Owner: Ssankett Negi
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A Quiet Drink in Mobile
Sometimes you just want to be alone with your beer.
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A Serious Talk
"talk, talk, talk, it's only talk"
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A Suitable Case
IPOW (hope I´ve got the right week):-)
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A Whitby Notable
IPOW... a silly poem for the silly IPOW
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A Winter's Tale
a tale...
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Alone is the Hunter by Boatyard Kindling
More deathless, deadly verse from Boatyard Kindling
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American Gothic
IPOW http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheldonnalos/3846186992/
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An Invitation to Dinner (after Catullus 13)
He wrote some good stuff... I haven't! Picture is of the bust of Catullus at Sirmione. Source is Wikipedia Commons.
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And Dickens Danced at Midnight
There's a new bio of Dickens out, I hope he'll be rehabilitated soon. Re-punctuated 3/10/11
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Arab Spring
A more correct villanelle: with a modern subject and idiom.
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Babbacombe Fair
Old-fashioned. Perhaps pointlessly so.
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Barrowland
Hope this doesn't qualify as a foreign language poem.
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Beating the Devil
The Mighty Hunter, serial numbers have been changed to protect the guilty. http://www.spyflight.co.uk/nim.htm
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Beatle Love
Apparently you can't copyright a title, I didn't know that...
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Bigger Brother
A SCI-FI Story, no, really!
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Biter Bit (Gregg)
Could only get a 1500 or so worder out of him. Sorry.
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Blessed is his Name
in another man's shoes... or sandals, perhaps
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Blocked
Well, I think you'll work it out...
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Blue Rondo in the Murk
a kind of blue...
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Blue, Blue, Electric Blue
What is life? Flash Fiction
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Bob's Your Uncle
you can choose your friends...
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Boredom
feel free to argue....
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Bread on the Waters
Ephraim Lightwater B17 Montevista Coin Spain umbung2@yahoo.co.uk Syneham & Dunholme Literary Agents Cashew Building Bent Street London WC1 2ED
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Buddy
His name was always Buddy.... Steal part of a lyric... make up a story...
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Building for the Future
Haiti...
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Café Aphrodite
Many a weathered skin hides a romantic soul
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Character Plus Conflict Equals Plot
I don't think this is what they meant... Minor edits 17/07/2011
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Cold Encounter
IOPW 14/03/08 Edit 8/12/17 Middle stanza inserted minor edits elsewhere. Image used in acc/w CC-SA 2.0 Source Wiki commons: author Alan Wilson
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Creative Overspill
parvum in multo...
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Crossing The River
http://www.bryant.edu/wps/wcm/connect/Bryant/Divisions/Information+Servi...
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Dear Stephen
It's a very good book, really, but you can't give a computer to a duck and expect it to get online. Copyright information for image is inside the cover of the book, I'll look it up later.
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Getting Out
New starts aren't easy.... Image is used in acc with CC-BY-SA 2.0 Photographer David Lally
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Sunshine
Jimmi Patel left the house at an unaccustomed run. Not quite out of condition yet, he thought, but bloody near it.
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Ode To The Umbung by Boatyard Kindling
Little known poet based in Kallibar
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Passion Cooled
after the thrill is gone...
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Nostalgia Comp
I remember it like it was yesterday. Only I can’t remember yesterday. Or five minutes ago, come to that. Got to write things down. So much paper, around the house now. I think. Or was that before?
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Greetings from Inner Space
Greetings from Inner Space: Writer’s Blog Stardate 2412/2007 time 1915 S.F.T.*
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Dollars in the Bathtub
an urban-myth in Buenos Aires says a high-ranking politician was arrested with half-a-million dollars in his bathtub. He said it was petty cash. Last couplet edit 18 June 2011 Image from pIxelhere.com 2023
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Ploughshares into Swords.
it's about words.
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Kings of the Last Frontier
Book seats on the apocalypse wagon train. Image by Themightyquill - Souce wikipedia commons, licence : CC BY-SA 3.0
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Every Word?
200 words that don't count
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Parallel Heaven
Dialogue with the dead? A drink with someone that's all.
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Presents of Mind
A 200 word sort of IPOW story thing.
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Holding Hands
A Chemical,Chymical,Comical Wedding
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To Poetaste: a most irregular verb.
What it says
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The Answer is 8 Down
Think about it... Yes, it's an acrostic!
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Page Found On A Tube Station Platform
It looked like it had fallen from a well-thumbed book; at least it hadn't been the last page of a commuter's escape route. I wonder what the rest of the novel was like?
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The New Confessions
IPOW - May offend, possibly.
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Oh no it isn't!
What's in a name? IPOW, inspired to such nonsense as this.
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February Morning
Not postmodern, not didactic, not navel gazing. Just a bucolic, blundering lonely as a clod, poem.
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Fishing for Compliments
150 words. A little thing, but mine.
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Four Corners
I never could make up my mind if I like the States or not.
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Freeride
WIP: a freewrite mutated
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Steering the Conversation
communicate
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Last of the Woad Blue Lovers
some sound advice
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Script for an imaginary short
hmmmm.... are all critics bad poets or the other way round?? Image author's intellectual property, created at site shown
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Love Conkers
boys to men...maybe not
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Escape to Literature
What did you read? Why?
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Dreamboat Danny
By the rivers of Babylon
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Epitaph
IPOW 21/03/08. A seven-minute special so judge it by those lights... please
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History’s Details
Can anyone really change anything?
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Who Do We Think We Are?
bad mood today...
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Legal Fees
Could almost be a plot-line for a Victorian novel...
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Factory
Anytown? Your town, my town...
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Sunday Post Mortem
I don't suppose they were ever any more reflective of society than Lord Snooty and the Bash Street Kids....
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No More Than 10 Words.
I should be so....
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Sand and Glasses
Not like the girl in Dr No... No,no.
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Humble Pi
ok it's a bad pun... but the haiku are ok-ish..
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The Universal Backlot Wedding
I just love the golden age of hollywood... Very minor edit 30/11/11 Image is from 1930s. US copyright law would put that in the Public Domain.
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September
IPOW based on a very fine poem: (HINT) :-) http://www.abctales.com/story/capoeiragem/gone apologies for what I came up with inspired by a lovely poem: a 250 worder.
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Monologue
V. You should have been a poet! E. I was Beckett
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This Savage Life
with age comes shame....
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Give over, Ray!
'Get in, get out. Don't linger. Go on'. Raymond Carver on why he wrote short stories and poems and not novels in "On Writing," it is included in "Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories" (Harvill Press) .
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Ghost Readers
Eat your heart out Frankie Laine.... No, don't bother reading this, it's too silly!
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Mean Spirits
Writers eh? Who'd love em?
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Half Time
Dialogue... well, triologue only.
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The Little Sister
Hey, why leave Chandler out?
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Gone
If 'All writers are masochists' is a canard... why is it called 'Submission'?
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Welcome Back Peter
Prince of Darkness? Don't make me laugh...
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Poet as Bot
Lovingly dedicated to 'Writing Fella', '"Writing"Careers' and 'Bite-Sized Essays'. Are you all bots? Toshbots?
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The Case of the Possessive Pronoun
The Great Detective at work...
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The Master of Bafflegab
Bafflegab. p87, New Fowler's Modern English Usage, Oxford
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Niki
CW exercise for course. It's supposed to be a dramatic monologue. Not sure what that actually is.
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Happy Hour in Hoboken
short and sour... like some drinks...
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Honey Trapping
Straight into the write story box... no edits, 20 minutes work... and I bet it shows.
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Waiting for Haiku
Please don't go overboard and treat this seriously... it's just a bit of fun!
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Nothing Like A Dame
Competition Entry Prose
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Return of the Mac
you work it out...
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Haiku
This is cheating and, actually, I quite enjoy them... but it's a great word isn't it.
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The Singer Not The Song
just a poem about an object...
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Seven Layers
I can never get more than 3. Stef, Footsie: it's not about hens.
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The Indefinite Particle
A Light Hole..
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Howard
hmmm... the subject of cleanliness came up a week or so ago, and provoked this...
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Palimpsests (Edit)
Palimpsest: an early consequence of recycling? A paper with a memory, perhaps? Maybe all paper is palimpsest, should we always use it more than once?
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What a Word's Worth
Short, breaks most rules, so what?
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Free Write
What it says...best way to tell your dreams, I reckon.
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The Son of All Fears
Quite odd, really...
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S.S. Great Britain
Short and sour...
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Special Delivery
Work produced for OU CW course... all marked now so posted for further mockery :-)
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If Only
"If only. Futile words in any language. If only I had asked. If only I had wanted to know." OU work: don't worry if you can't work it out, it's the writer's fault.
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The Ramsbottom Pigeon
Not autobiographical... not a falcon . Minor edit and illustration added. Created at the Pulp-O-Mizer.com
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Muhammad Dali
Bagatelle... Or not?
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Destiny Calling
It could happen to you...
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It is just one more word...
IPOW 22/05/09 113 words... too many, never mind.
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Lunch for Two.
this one is quite dear to my heart...
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Just So
Mister Kipling revisited... it's not about cakes...
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Your Name is No Accident.
I keep seeing the title on Google Ads: it's to do with some bollocks about numerology. This isn't.
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Gun
What it says... image source is wikipedia commons.
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There is No Such Thing as a Free Write
Well, there isn't.
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Geek
I guess you either believe the voice, or you don't...
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For Love or Money
Modern Love... but I never wave bye-bye..
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Same as the Old Boss?
Sorry Pete, it ain't necessarily so...
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The Silent Treatment
IPOW 9/10/2009 200 words
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The Resourceful Mr Goldfarb
IP 200 words.
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Such a Little Man
beware the little man ...
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George and Fred
I'm sure you'll work it out.
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The Udder Side of the Story
IPOW
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Lupine Debt Recovery (FSA Approved)
IPOW
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Lenore
This was one of my earliest successful pieces on ABC. It's been on its travels through the slush piles and now I've brought it home. Treat it kindly, please.
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Journeyman
Early Experiments with POV... feel free to send brickbats. :-)
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Mistaken Identity
hmm... oh well, it was sort of like this...
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Vinyl Memories
nothing really...
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In a Perfect World.
Welcome to the Cheap Seats... A vignette...
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No Accounting for Taste
Disqualified entry for AlibiTV competition (UK Residents Only!) The first sentence was obligatory. Thought I'd post it here instead. Altogether now, "Patrick McGinty, an Irishman of note.."
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Flawed Judgement
I.P. Microfiction.
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Eye
Inspired by a discussion about POV. What's it about? No I-dea. 300 words +/-.
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Happy Ever After - A Fairy Tale Adventure
A topical fairy tale: shouldn't they be timeless?
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El Planeta del Tesoro (Treasure Planet)
Too long: do not read. "Avast there! Ye Planet-lubbers!" Image is from Pixabay : "Free for commercial use, no attribution required" but the artist's/creator's name is Reimund Bertrams.
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Live at the Gaumont
Wop-bop-aloo-bop-alop-bom-boom
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Once Upon A Time
Not quite what was up before... Π = Pi
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Mad Woman Running
This is not poetry...
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Sofia
Warning, contains poetry and prose.
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Jimmy Blue
a promise is a promise...
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Packet
Just imagine if it did happen....
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The Offer
you would too, wouldn't you?
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On the Corner of Plaza Baja
Small town Andalucia. One word edit. (Very OCD behaviour). Image added 2020. used in acc. w/CC BY 2.0 Mario Mancuso -- Elderly women in an Italian market
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Scenes From a Massive-ly Multiplayer On-line Role Player's Game.
It's not about that really... Minor edits 11 August 2011
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Sunbirds
they're the opposite of snowbirds...
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On the Roadkill, with Jack (and Bill and Neal).
IP or not IP, that is the question... Regarding Sean Penn 's writing efforts... I think he's read the same Kerouac piece as me. Edited for picture.
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Where the Blue Meets the Grey
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Hopscotch On The Beach
Candas, Asturias: 20 Aug 2011.
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Photograph
Spain 20 Aug 2011 Photo CC2.0. Mario de Biasi?
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Do Something Different This Bank Holiday
Bank holiday time again..
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Last Men Out
It might have been like this, the last time the RAF were in Libya... Picture from RAF El Adem memories website.
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You Don't Know, Jacques*
Iconoclasm 101
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Ici, Les Petits-Fils du Paradis
It's about... 14 lines long
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These Dreams
This is a Pantoum, I hope it is more successful than the Sestina* was. * http://www.abctales.com/story/ewan/babbacombe-fair
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Deliver Us Not
A Villanelle: I find these forms (perhaps due to the repetitions involved)tend to produce the ritualistic and the arcane, like some litanies from the church. Or perhaps I've just no imagination.
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Eastern Promise
A confection.
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Murder By Numbers
Far from the best poem ever written..
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Pantelegraph
Never invent something before its time has come.
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On The Tanner
The Germans talk about an Ohrwurm, when they get a tune they can't get out of their head. This poem might help me get a Tom Waits tune out of mine.
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Wordsmith (IP)
IP, off to read the Nobel winner now.
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Mr Kölski Pays A Visit
you figure it out...
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Stan
Guess which book I've just re-read. No prizes, but have a go anyway.
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Fence Posts
poem 13 12 11 (looks good like that the date, doesn't it?) That's nothing to do with the poem by the way.
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Leadville
You'll work it out
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I Stand Outside
another poem
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The Road to Ballyhibbert
poem...
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Playing Scales
I preferred the English title... I knew it wasn't a second sequel, you see.
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The Road to Celestial
it is, what it is...
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Kissed Her Where She Said It Hurt
Flash Fiction. This is never justified...
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The Appliance of Science
No. 1001, if you don't like the story perhaps you can use it to clean a big, big carpet. I won't charge half-a-crown. NB Not about carpets.
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The Everlasting Pie
A folk-tale from New England... (well, no, I made it up.) Warning: 'The Everlasting Pie includes nuts doggerel.
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One Thin Dime
The heavy doors at the entrance were wedged open. Paul's father was looking out into the rain. In the wooden seats to Paul's right, his mother was...
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Kharkov Girl
Chain story, each narrator hands on to the next, there are only three and it returns to the first narrator in circular fashion. Now stop reading...
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Warszawa
Flash fiction, it's about this and other things.
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Third Person Singular
Flash(y) fiction... haha.
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Northern Dream
This is an old one... Sometimes I think I used to write better than I do now...
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Grave Dancer
Yes, well, you'll work it out... I hope.
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Enemies of the People
A tribute to the great Samuel...
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Painted Ponies
not much to do with The Circle Game... Or even Spinning Wheel...
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Not A Word
Bad people come in all forms... Image is from Wikipedia, used in accordance with CC 3.0 and by swampyank who does not necessarily approve of the story's content
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Secrets
It's about what it's about, and how easy it is... Image Source Wikipedia Commons By Jef-Infojef - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10565316
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Moonshine
This is very old, and I'm quite surprised at where I found it, between a pantoum and a villanelle, which puts it during the second year of my CW Diploma with the OU. Naturally, that shows, but at least it's not poetry, eh? Image is PUBLIC DOMAIN... hoorah. Source Wikicommons.
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La Sota De Copas
As meta as meta can be... Several edits Sept 21, 2020. Image source: https://www.tarot.es/wiki-tarot/significado-de-la-sota-de-copas-en-el-tarot Revisited today because the meaning of the Knave of Cups in tarot is good news...
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Ticking
As it's nearly Samhain, Halloween, whatever... image licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 photographer ropphotography on instagram
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Clinical Trial
Imagine... Sci Fi. Image source is Wiki commons license CC1.0 Public Domain
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"Dear World..."
George Sanders, the cad's cad. I really tried to work in his "failed sausage investment" into this. It's not a euphemism though, so I gave up. Image source wikipedia in Public Domain as it is so old.
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Danny & The Rebel Boys
If I hadn't been walking the dog, I'd have taken a photo of the painted goal. Maybe I'll take one tomorrow. Image used is from pixabay.com and is free for non-commercial use.
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Firelight
Dystopic drivel. Image is from pixabay and is free for non-commercial use with no attribution
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Apocryphon
Umm... well, odd, yes. But you can't beat a good puzzle on a Friday, eh? Oh, okay look at the image's provenance. Image is of a papyrus said to be a fragment of The Gospel of Mary. Source: Wikipedia.org Public Domain.
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"One, Two, Three, Four!"
Not actionable. Image is CC0 and in Public Domain.
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Bring Me Sunshine
Some may find the ending unsatisfying. An old lady I once knew used to say "the bastards would tax sunshine if they could". I'm now in complete agreement. Image Source wiki commons licence CC-SA4-Int Photographer Charles R. Benedict
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A Street Called Hoffnung
An old one. I thought I'd posted it here, but couldn't find it. Image is free to use in acc. with CC4.0-SA It shows the Stasi Museum.
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A Home Coming
There were days like this. Home in the image is not where my parents lived, and it may be really nice for all I know. image from Flicker.com taken by Elliot Brown Licence CC BY-SA 2.0
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Move Away, Jimmy Blue
I set this week's IP so I felt duty bound to attempt something. Saw the band play this song Monday last. We can all move away, of course we can, but some of us stay in the same place even though we've moved miles. Image author's own.
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W-E-R-E
It's not W-O-L-D, but that is one of my favourite songs. Image made at Photofunia.com by me.
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A Nation of Caners*
No copyright on titles. *Del Amitri on the Writer's Den Musical Time Machine this morning. So I've nicked a title of a song from their latest album (I know, I thought they'd given up too, until I went to see them live in September). And we are... So, not about very much. You're welcome to pass by... Some of the pubs have had their names changed... And I like them all, really Image is from whatpub.com
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Nomen Est Omen
It's about...well nominative determination, I suppose. "Nomen est omen" Plautus. "The name is a sign, the name speaks for itself." In other words, Mr Bunn has no choice but to be the baker... Image in PD
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Pretending to Believe
I didn't even know people did this on-line. Image is author's own fault.
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Daytime Ghost
My wife took this photo the other day... It was a trick of the light... Wasn't it?
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The Day After
The Wellington is draped in black today. Around the windows, over the sign on the tall post outside. Look too closely and you can see they’re sheets...
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I See Strange People
Odd. Do please ignore, if it's not for you. Image author's own, created from CC0 licenced elements.
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Book Smart
Overnight sensation? Hardly.
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