Autobiography
The Foreign Language
The Foreign Language Stale furnace. Drizzling close to my skin; a silver sheath. I had no word for drizzling of course Not in English nor in my...
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Lois and Sharon
From Marlene's house coming up the road, you get next to the Krugers, pretty white boarded house. They were an elderly couple, originally from Russia...
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Conned 2 - part 4
I don't intend to bore you with all the little frustrations relating to my purchases, but will just mention the big problems. The first of these was...
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Family Gathering
Impatient son – he poked the crumbs that topped the pudding’s plums. He licked his finger, quickly went, disaster to prevent – ‘There’s something...
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Marlene
Our house was 221 11 th Street – a yellow stucco finished house, two bedrooms, a tiny kitchen, a combined living room dining area and a bathroom. But...
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Conned 2 - part 3
The men who were going to install my thermodynamic machine had to come from Essex, which is the headquarters of the company, and the home of most of...
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UM
What brought you here? To this place What strange series of events An incalculable amount of decisions Not just yours We sit across from one another...
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a grandiose title for a short poem about starting a fresh
A new start A new beginning A new A new A new
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Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining
Dear Diary...clock ticks as I type wondering where all the time has gone contemplating my options to have a hip replacement, but I don't know why It'...
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Conned 2 - part 2
About a week after my heating management system was installed, I was phoned by the man who had actually got me to sign on the dotted line, Mike. He...
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