Past lives
For mum, it was all a bit prosaic - she was called Gillian she had on ugly shoes she was at the edge of a cliff- but didn't jump until later when taken back to smallhold drudgery
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The Sheep Who Lived On The Roof
A simple tale about first love, eccentricity, the shaking off of prejudice and preconception and, of course, about sheep who live on roofs.
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The packet of hair dye that wanted to be a glue stick
Once upon a time, there lived a packet of hair dye that dressed like a nostalgic glue stick.
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A Saxon's Tale
It was more than sixty days since Eadwynne had wept as we left, begging us not to go. But as I kissed her, and our daughter, Leofwynne, I promised her we would return.
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From Highbury to Emirates or A Long Way for Some
From Highbury to Emirates is a long way for some.
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River Girl
Deep and blue, like the vastest Seas, Unfathomable, unknown, exciting and exotic,
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Old Mother Thames
Old Mother Thames Calor Gas Stoves and chemical toilets – twelve volts buzz…… First light sweet birdsong chimes to morning Sun The Metropolis waking -
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Tom - Part 2
Second part of the piece posted earlier in the week. 1,200 words.
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Mrs F***
By day, she is a paragon Of temperance and propriety She sits, and knits, and sups oolong With pillars of society Reflecting solemnly upon Their lives of strict sobriety
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True
I live in the world of the midnight grey.
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- 752 reads