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Sweet Contemplation (Part 2 of 2) (IP)

I knew what Ben had been thinking. He was thinking it was his job now, his inheritance. I hadn’t gone near the vegetable garden after the night I saw Mum.
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Sweet Contemplation (Part 1 of 2) (IP)

We’ll never know why Dad went out to the vegetable garden. Maybe to see how the cabbages were doing, or to plan the next crop. Maybe just to think. He used to say that being out among living things just quietly growing was a good exercise in contemplation.
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Cherry

"The Coffee House Spy" 7

Emily had fed Sir Harry his breakfast when they returned from their walk in the park and brewed a fresh pot of coffee. She’d just placed her filled...

The Garden of Eden

I was in the garden, which was rank and stank. Shifted a rock and then a plank. Stood on a dog turd, up to my shank. Returned to the house, blankety...
Gold cherry
Story of the week

Churros, chickens and choices (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 6)

In which Amber sulks, Josiah declines an offer and D.S. Stone has his day ruined.
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Storm Noddy

I'm strangely attracted to biased news and infantile adverts, probably because they and their subject matter easily confirm my misanthropic world...

Dirty Deed

When I had to fire a man, it made his daughter mad. She wanted to get revenge because I fired her dad. She was thirteen years old and she was filled...

Room for Triplets in a Large Population? (17 across)

Ah! Jim Golightley I assume. I'll dust your rump with my new broom. You'll recall my sister? Came the voice of doom.