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Tom Emery
Now retired from a career in teaching, I live in Scarborough, where I spend my days reading, writing, travelling and playing the piano, but not necesserily in that order.
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What A Load of Nonsense!
At breakfast time my seeded toast smelled just like watercress while the coffee reeked of jellybeans recovered from Loch Ness My pillow smelled like...
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Time Lords
The breath of gentle whispers between parallel worlds spins a silver mist across the meadow. A place where muffled wonder will soon be witnessed...
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Afterwards
We wind the clocks of our lives without ever once knowing the time, ignoring our ever slowing pulse with little regard for what is to come. But what...
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Meredith's Darkness
Although Winter was loosening its grip, it still had a few icy fingers wrapped around this March afternoon. Meredith felt the all too familiar shiver...
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Crying Against The Dying Of The Light
This was written after reading evidence statements taken from working children by the Children's Employment Commissioners at the Loanhead Colliery,...
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