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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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Ghost Story
Ghost Story I don’t believe in ghosts. At least that’s what I’ve always said. Memories can be fragile. I should be lucid and know exactly what I’m...
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Unleashed
This is the fourteenth entry in the satirical series at https://www.abctales.com/collection/pandemic-tales-bojo-and-co Unleashed The planet looked as...
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Bedtime Stories
Bedtime Stories Bedtime stories started with a parent clutching dog-eared worn tomes; fantasies, illusions to hold children in awe. Tales told after...
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I don't think Alfred is
Posted on Fri, 10 Oct 2025
I don't think Alfred is boring at all. Maybe Trumpenstein's vainglorious pursuit of the Nobel Peace Prize *is*.
Read full commentPosted in Rogue Reporter Comes Under Censorship From An Unexpected Quarter (The Home Front!) by Alfred.N.Muggins
This is today's Facebook, X
Posted on Wed, 08 Oct 2025
This is today's Facebook, X/Twitter and BlueSky Pick of the Day.
I've added a pic to promote your work on social media. Please let me know if you prefer to use something else.
Congratulations.
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That's an intense instalment
Posted on Tue, 07 Oct 2025
That's an intense instalment and quite a cliff hanger.
Keep going, Penny!
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The USA - the land of
Posted on Sun, 28 Sep 2025
The USA - the land of conspiracy theories. I don't suppose we'll ever get to the truth of a lot of things. Whilst Alfred could lay low, I suspect the lure of investigative roving reporting will be too strong for him!
Read full commentPosted in Is America Coming Here? (Sleepwalkers?) by rogue reporter Alfred N.Muggins
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.
Read full commentPosted in Appropriate!
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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