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StorySpeckles and Friends Richard L. Prov...32 years 2 months ago
StoryHobbes Rhiannonw162 years 2 months ago
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StoryNature's blues Rhiannonw82 years 2 months ago
StoryThe Morten Harket Selfie Opportunity Terrence Oblong62 years 2 months ago
StoryShadowy Visions Of The Past skinner_jennifer152 years 2 months ago
StoryBlueberry - Part Three Jane Hyphen102 years 2 months ago
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StoryThe Hungry Years mcscraic42 years 2 months ago
StoryThe Journey mcscraic42 years 2 months ago
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StoryA Murder of Crows marandina152 years 2 months ago
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StoryCastell Coch (Red Castle) marandina212 years 2 months ago
StoryDragon Gate marandina262 years 2 months ago
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StoryNana and Grampa (c 1950-1960) Rhiannonw162 years 2 months ago
StoryIn A Place Of Respite skinner_jennifer142 years 2 months ago
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Mother Bulgaria

As Lenin looks down from his sombre pedestal Concrete erupts from a bleak landscape like The broken teeth of windswept peasants Drinking homemade...
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Betty Lewis Eyes

A teapot on a tray she brings. Digestive in each saucer. Horrific tales of war to tell But only if she’s forced to. She’s angelic, prim and ninety...

Crucial Moves of Fantasy

Sit back and watch the sea above Where images of waves and whales and fish and ships Collide and slide and get mixed up Until it is a sea no more But...
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A Hot Afternoon in Malki Chiflik

Nothing moves. There is no breeze. No birds fly by in the cloudless sky. No creature has the will to disturb the cruel tranquillity. Not even bees...
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Frosty the Snowman

I was going to go out to the garden and build a snowman but then I remembered that I needed to put some fat on the cat’s abscess. I haven’t been...
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799 of my comments have received 845 Great Feedback votes

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Thanks very much for your

Posted on Wed, 17 Jan 2024

Thanks very much for your encouragement and support Di. The short answer to your question, I'm afraid, is that I can't be bothered.

Two things make me want to write. One is that younger generations of my family will have something to read...

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Posted in Lovely Palace, Must Fly

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I admire you for taking a

Posted on Wed, 17 Jan 2024

I admire you for taking a crash course in Japanese (or was that just in the story?). A Chinese friend of mine here in Bulgaria tried to give me a crash course in Mandarin but in the end (well, after thirty minutes) my brain crashed.

Your...

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Posted in Enoshima (Part One of Two)

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I love this bit...

Posted on Mon, 15 Jan 2024

I love this bit...

Heavy cloud in fashionable grey spread from horizon to horizon leaching the colour out of greens of any remaining foliage and reds of brickwork. 

It contributes a lot to creating the scene.

And...

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Posted in New Directions (1)

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It was the Farsi word for

Posted on Sun, 14 Jan 2024

It was the Farsi word for farcical that had me beaten. 

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Posted in A Fistful of Rials

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A terrible story, a sharp

Posted on Sat, 13 Jan 2024

A terrible story, a sharp reminder and a well written poem.

Nice one Luigi!

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Posted in One Night, in Berlin

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Optimism

Posted on Tue, 09 Jan 2024

There's a lot of hope in your well thought out words Paul.

I hope the hope comes true.

Good on you!

 

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Posted in January Panorama

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Having lived in the West Country

Posted on Wed, 03 Jan 2024

Having lived in the West Country for twenty years, none of this surprises me Paul. 

A well written and gripping tale.

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Posted in Abyss

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I really like this. I like

Posted on Sat, 06 Jan 2024

I really like this. I like the way you've highlighted how water is used over and over again in nature; many times in the past and many times in the future, as well as here and now.

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Posted in Autobiography (but not mine!)

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Hoover

Posted on Wed, 03 Jan 2024

Thanks to you too Di.

Send your Hoover over here with a nice crisp tenner and we'll have it fixed for you before you can say Dimitar's your uncle. 

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Posted in This Sort of Thing - December 2023 - Side B

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There's a lot of thinking

Posted on Tue, 02 Jan 2024

There's a lot of thinking going on here, and wondering. Involuntary thinking, perhaps. I like the way the raindrops dictate the rhythm of your morning.

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Posted in New year

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