Certificate 15

Ages 15 and up

A Secret

Now then lad. Don't get mad. No need to be sad. I'm still your dad. It's just a bikini I'm wearing. Nowt but a fad.
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All Good (short story) part 2 of 2

"That’s good,” he repeats, “because then I can keep you safe from all of it.” I don’t know what he means, but I put my bag down. It knocks over a...
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All Good (short story) part 1 of 2

I’m at the closest thing my rural high school has to a counsellor, Mr. Hawkin. I’ve seen him draft an email in my presence and according his...
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Golden Memories: Nick Names

While I was trying to 'find myself' I alternated my time between working as a clerk and riding with a motorcycle gang (a sometimes uncomfortable...

Learning to Live

The lightning crackled overhead, momentarily illuminating the coal black sky. This darkness in which we resided had lingered eerily in the sky for...
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Carolina Cromwell and The Mystery of the Grand Duchess (Part Two)

Dinner with the Vanderbilts. How absolutely wonderful. Picture: Pixabay Creative Commons
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Carolina Cromwell and The Mystery of the Grand Duchess (Part One)

New York, September 1930, A PI, an aristocrat, and a young woman who doesn't want to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia. What could possibly go wrong? Picture: Pixabay Creative Commomns.
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Folklore #1

"If there's owt worse than them young'uns, it's them old'uns. And as fut middle'uns.... (Old Sam spits a glob of bubbling green phlegm into the...

Golden Memories: The Psychopath

When I first met Paul he was a quiet, shy and polite kid, well turned out by his rather elderly parents. But still waters run deep and things changed...

Golden memories: The Wizard

Back in the 1970's I used to go to a packed post-hippy pub every Saturday night. One fellow often swaggered through the melee looking like a loose-...