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time travelling

By Di_Hard on Sun, 17 Sep 2017

at woods' edge shadow-silt nestles lumps of amber air floating ballrooms where midges dance brief lives away since before words on one side sun warm...

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first day in senior school

By Di_Hard on Fri, 18 Aug 2017

Rain heavy air, clear, fresh colours drenched. I walk through clinging grasses like hands welcoming. Summer condensing on twig ends in rowan berries...

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calm before

By Di_Hard on Thu, 03 Aug 2017

trunk tethered galaxies of leaves wild weaves, wind owned. Waist high, light grained grasses spray. Green-good air an open mouth, bird-fled, waits...

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a sort of green

By Di_Hard on Mon, 17 Jul 2017

in autumn small, three-toed green, lizard dry stampedes down the steps' side dark green cloaking concrete with rustling possibilities or, lushly...

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BRILLIANT!!! I love it when I

Posted on Tue, 15 Jul 2025

BRILLIANT!!! I love it when I have no idea where a story is going, yet is it completely involving all the way through. Absolutely wonderful

Posted in The Irritating Gentleman (part two)

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I like

Posted on Tue, 15 Jul 2025

I like

"I remember discussing sheeple

and what makes people free,"

while describing not being free at all

Posted in 3 oz of Insanity

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Oooh, sensing Polly might

Posted on Tue, 15 Jul 2025

Oooh, sensing Polly might have magical powers?
11 disappearances is a lot! I'd worry about that, too!
Billy's character is great, am looking forward to seeing how he handles the baddie :0)

not sure about some bits "It was fine...

Posted in Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (3)

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"The course of true love

Posted on Tue, 15 Jul 2025

"The course of true love never did run smooth", as Shakespeare might have said of Perfidia's experiences in this latest instalment of Penny4athought's wonderful WIP, which is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

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You convey his fear very well

Posted on Sat, 12 Jul 2025

You convey his fear very well. You have "Will he ever forgive myself if I don't jump?" which made me wonder if you have tried skydiving? I would be much too scared

Posted in Here I am

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Beautiful, Rhiannon. You are

Posted on Thu, 10 Jul 2025

Beautiful, Rhiannon. You are so clever to fit the original meaning into new words, and still have rhyme, I don't know how translators manage this, but you have, here, so well. I love "stirring your joy again, again"

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This really does have the

Posted on Thu, 10 Jul 2025

This really does have the sense of being in a dream, everything too sudden and total. Will try to remember to face tigers. I liked very much the stripes, of light and shadow, of forgotten and unforgotten, of waking and unwaking. "primal fears and...

Posted in I Dreamt of Tigers

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Have just heard on the news

Posted on Mon, 07 Jul 2025

A few days after you posted this, have just heard on the news about mothers, pregnant women and children queueing for supplements to help with the malnutrition caused by Netanyahu's blockade. Bombed. One of the 8 children killed is a little one...

Posted in Fifty Shades of Death

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Brilliant :0) Glad Farzanah

Posted on Wed, 09 Jul 2025

Brilliant :0) Glad Farzanah was ok, hope she is, still. If I were a high up in her country, would be working my socks off to get a bomb finished before that happened again. Hope Sofi's back is better by now, and that hasn't put her off hydrangeas...

Posted in If I Were a Fish

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From fireflies to fig sap,

Posted on Tue, 08 Jul 2025

From fireflies to fig sap, imagining Marlene Dietrich in a bus shelter to beating Lyme's disease, Turlough's diary entry for June is a great read, which is why it is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can