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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.
My stories
Ego Maximus Mundi
A letter from the principal of Donald Trump's college to his father, Mr Fred Trump, expressing the faculty's distress at its failure to penetrate...
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Spinning a Disaster
One cold evening in February 1818, in a land where King George III had recovered his madness well enough to appear sane and where Mary Shelley had...
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Stirred and Shaken
'There was a stirring in the air, as if spirits moved unseen' (Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol) The world stirs and scratches fretfully in...
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Holly and Oak
The sun, wrapped tight in swaddling bands Cradles low where the shadows dwell As the Holly King at his glorious peak Stirs sleeping limbs with...
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Flaming Christmas Fare
The flaming pud was always a hit With our dog, my brothers and me Filled with spices of exotic hue We never quite knew just how to behave, How to...
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