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Ballad of an Organ Donor
I am, are you? Anyway, this is just silly, but think about carrying the card. Image used under fair use from NHS website.
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Bronte's Inferno XXI ("Com-for-ta-ble")
A bit of wuthering... Image made by me from pd elements.
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Bronte's Inferno XX (The Sphinx Principle)
The Sphinx Principle is the technique behind one of the great stage illusions of The Golden Age of Magic. Image author's own created using pd items with canva.com
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The Last Man Left In The Union
After Peter Wyton (look him up, he's very good)'s The Last Man Left In The Air Force. Image from website (BTW we do). Audio here http://writemark.blogspot.com/2019/02/updated-leaflet-for-trade-unions-w... Permission for use requested.
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The Cincinnatus Kid
Well, it was the blond buffoon who mentioned him first. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Quinctius_Cincinnatus Image from wikipedia and in public domain.
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Welcome back.
Posted on Mon, 15 Feb 2021
What a shame the magazine folded. I expect that will be as familiar a story over the next year as it has been over the last. Fantastic that you chose to put your story here. I sincerely hope you're looking around for other magazines that might...
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Short
Posted on Tue, 26 Jan 2021
and succinct. Well done.
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I took
Posted on Fri, 22 Jan 2021
the liberty of doing it for you, hope you don't mind.
I've read this five times already.
Ewan
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Beautiful
Posted on Fri, 22 Jan 2021
just beautiful.
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So Sorry
Posted on Thu, 14 Jan 2021
to read this, but at the same time happy that you have this site to air your feelings, or just plain vent. I have little advice to offer, I'm afraid. One thing I did do about a situation where I was powerless in the power of an authority figure...
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This funny,
Posted on Thu, 24 Dec 2020
whimsical, and, yes, uplifting take on Christmas is a tonic even for the most cynical among us (you KNOW who you are, and you and I are brothers under the skin). Those are reasons enough for this to be today's Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day...
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I do
Posted on Fri, 18 Dec 2020
remember the ghost in the armchair from others' houses, it would have been a grandparent of course. Never saw anyone violent. That must be truly awful, like living with a tyrant.
Read full commentThe washing machine that we were encouraged to use in The...
Posted in A Life Like That
No,
Posted on Mon, 07 Dec 2020
I don't feel there's too much dialogue at all. Exposition can be achieved through dialogue or narrative and you should definitely mix it up whether you're writing a short story, novella or a novel.
If I have doubts about which to use in a...
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I do
Posted on Fri, 27 Nov 2020
love a good nihilistic git as a main character! Fabulous atmosphere, I could almost smell Hot Plate Heaven.
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One theory
Posted on Thu, 26 Nov 2020
is that Ashurbanipal was Sardanapalus (and transliteration can do funny things, especially from cuneiform into Greek and later Latin script) BUT Ashurbanipal is everywhere else but in Cteisis's version - which itself is only known through...
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