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Carols at Midnight
Carols at Midnight Light from a votive candle flickers – candescent, smells of incense permeate the pews. Beyond a prayer book stone floor seems...
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Santa Pause
Santa Pause John Jones hated his name, its mundanity matched only by the inane notion of Christmas. In truth, it hadn’t always been this way. A...
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Christmas Skies
An homage to John Betjeman and inspired by his poem written in 1954 called ‘Christmas’ Christmas Skies Chiming church-bells peal from afar, summoning...
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Where Maps End
Where Maps End Rays of maple light shimmer at sunrise, Dawn’s horizon cast on a glass sea below. Enveloping nascence, A quiet overture of birdsong...
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Who Wants to Live Forever?
For Halloween 2024 Who Wants to Live Forever? Fritz Erlinger was a name that came to haunt me, torture me as my life unfolded. Yet, in the beginning...
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"Turn on the lights – they
Posted on Wed, 27 Aug 2025
"Turn on the lights – they saw
drifting plankton, bioluminescent creatures glowing.."
I like the way the poem pivots around the lights coming on. It makes it highly visual. I can only imagine the biodiversity at the bottom of the...
Read full commentPosted in From the Chinese Bathyscaphe, Striver
I can see Alfred Muggins as
Posted on Mon, 25 Aug 2025
I can see Alfred Muggins as the next President. Why not? Literally anything is possible in the USA!
Read full commentPosted in Elected!: Alfred Muggins Considers Entering American Politics!
That's great. Thank you!
Posted on Wed, 20 Aug 2025
That's great. Thank you!
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A very charming pen-portrait
Posted on Thu, 21 Aug 2025
A very charming pen-portrait so adriotly done.
Full of empathy I'm sure Mary would approve.
The story is built so nicely then pivots on: “Hang on a minute. I haven’t got a teapot.”
[That's a fine teapot of your own there, T...
Read full commentPosted in Mary's Missing Teapot
Such a clever story so well
Posted on Sat, 16 Aug 2025
Such a clever story so well told. There's someone out there for everyone!
Read full commentPosted in On the verge of awakening
Bloodsucker Vladimir Putinpot
Posted on Tue, 19 Aug 2025
Bloodsucker Vladimir Putinpot. Well...yes.
What a pantomime in Alaska. It's staggering to think that Trump is on the cusp of ending sanctions and willing to do business with someone so committed to the destruction of the West and all it...
Read full commentPosted in Mrs Muggins Goes On a Mini Tour of Italy, While the Butcher and the Clown Meet in Alaska! by Alfred N.Muggins
Absorbing dialogue and
Posted on Sat, 16 Aug 2025
Absorbing dialogue and dynamics between the characters.
All infused with magic.
Keep going, Penny!
Read full commentPosted in "Willow's Missing Tail" 31
Thanks for following it all,
Posted on Tue, 19 Aug 2025
Thanks for following it all, Penny.
Feedback from accomplished writers like yourself is invaluable to me.
Read full commentPosted in Prophesy - The Immortal Witch (6)
It's all highly credible. You
Posted on Sat, 16 Aug 2025
It's all highly credible. You have captured the place and time with realism and empathy.
I can connect with the characters and the story line because I remember what places like Castle Vale and Chemsley Wood were like back then. I think...
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"Clustering in clouds that
Posted on Tue, 19 Aug 2025
"Clustering in clouds that shade.."
The importance of rain keeps going up as global warming bites. I marvel at the process of rain formation. One of the glories of living on this planet. A succinct and poignant vignette, Rhiannon. Very...
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