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Rain at the Forest Cafe
A morning coffee stop at a café in a clearing.. Rain at the Forest Cafe Fairy lights glimmer as I drink coffee at a bustling forest café – Dogs under...
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“If we shadows have offended, think but this and all is mended.” Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream A Midsummer Night’s Dream Sarsen stones stand...
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Boris and the Hustings
This is the thirteenth entry in the satirical series at https://www.abctales.com/collection/pandemic-tales-bojo-and-co Boris and the Hustings It had...
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West of Ireland
Standing on a beach in County Kerry, Ireland - 2005. West of Ireland Standing at the far edge of an ancient archipelago, a desolate sentry ashore,...
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The 16:03 to Purgatory (Part Two of Two)
Part One at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/1603-purgatory-part-one-two The 16:03 to Purgatory (Part Two of Two) With that the monk-like...
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An enigma posed adriotly.
Posted on Sat, 04 Oct 2025
An enigma posed adriotly.
I don't know the answer but I'm sure someone will be along shortly to solve it.
Nicely done, Rhiannon.
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You often explore the dark
Posted on Tue, 16 Sep 2025
You often explore the dark underbelly of the corporate jungle with insight and cynicism, Mark. The fragments you describe are familiar especially the verbal waterboarding that goes on around missed sales targets and weak pipelines.
[Where...
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Ah yes...children will make
Posted on Tue, 16 Sep 2025
Ah yes...children will make games out of anything.
That's a lovely, warm story told in poetic form.
Charming and engaging, Rhiannon.
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All caught up.
Posted on Tue, 16 Sep 2025
All caught up.
Alternate universes/the multi-verse. My favourite theories but I could be off-beam. I often am :)
It's an intriguing premise. "Through The Goo-Hole".
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Memories are all we are left
Posted on Thu, 11 Sep 2025
Memories are all we are left with when loved ones leave us. In that way they live on.
I enjoyed this reminiscence, especially the bit about W-s-M.
Thank you for sharing this, Jenny.
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"Their hands cannot reach
Posted on Thu, 11 Sep 2025
"Their hands cannot reach around the world."
Where's there's life, there's hope. And ragu an apt metaphor.
Imagistic and profound. Adriotly done, Lena.
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"He had lost count of how
Posted on Mon, 08 Sep 2025
"He had lost count of how many tables had gone to their after life thanks to the continual and frequent machinations of his wife Mrs Muggins, a lady most obsessed with tables"
I'm with Insert - what's going on with those tables?! :)
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‘I’m off now, meeting my bird
Posted on Tue, 02 Sep 2025
‘I’m off now, meeting my bird,’ Eesh...I remember saying stuff like that once.
Yes, I like the idea of a doggy guardian of the lift. I can just imagine that.
Looking forward to reading the next part already.
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Supply chains are inter
Posted on Sun, 31 Aug 2025
Supply chains are inter-connected and often span the Globe. The Law of Unintended Consequences very much in play when applying artifical changes to an established economic model. Trump's tariffs have been declared illegal again in court. What a...
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Lots of rain around at the
Posted on Mon, 01 Sep 2025
Lots of rain around at the moment.
Life is about moments and they can catch us when we least expect them.
You have an eye for capturing what many would miss, Jenny.
Keep distilling them into poetry for us :)
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