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Global Warming Charity Idea – A Global Lottery To Fight Global Warming
I think that Global Warming could be stopped if there was a Global Lottery; everyone in the world buying a lottery ticket and the money that wasn’t...
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Matchstick-Man and Rainbow
A covey of chairs – lace-backed, pink-chintz...
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A Star is Born
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Norbert Chapter 34 A Star is Born On the day of the Bring and Buy sale I still have no idea what form of entertainment Nunky is planning. If he’s...
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Lunch Club
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Norbert Chapter 33 Lunch Club Once a year Nunky’s Lunch Club holds a summer Bring and Buy sale to raise funds. Friends and relatives are invited to...
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From Our Own Correspondent
....we have received this report.
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The Ugly and the Beautiful
Continuing the idea of one of my old hymns on Sundays – 'They were filled with venom … Beautiful the contrast: perfume, love, outpoured … Rash their rushing judgement'
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Wet Dog's Nostalgia
Damned be that plastic uniform when I was in the 7th grade or so it stuck to my knees I pulled it down with my left hand but it was still too short...
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Cow Hey - 13 Trip to Prestwich
May 2nd arrived before we knew it, and putting on our best clothes, Mrs. Allsop and I got into the trap at 7.45 a.m., and Mr. Allsop drove us up to...
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Hiding In the Sky
I They're taking another run at Jupiter tonight, Those folks tornadoing around the fire in the field. Mice chase crickets between their feet. Mice...
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Chapter 11
With Kelly demanding I supply her with a young native, I phoned Miguel, the taxi driver I had stayed with when I first came to Independent Nation...
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Chapter 10
My glorious radio debut had to wait of course. Partly because the world simply wasn’t ready for me, a billion years’ of evolution was insufficient...
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‘Excuse Me for My Suicide’
As writers we have the ability to voice our views on practically any issue we consider relevant or worthy of our passion, to an often unseen audience...
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Café Boris removals
It was just another day in Café Boris. Outside the last remnants of the previous week’s snow slowly melted into an unpleasant slush, covering a layer...
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Butterfly in a Jar
I. Steam and smoke covering the small barred window. Drug induced blurred vision. As if chestnut flowers were spreading light like chandeliers,...
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Untitled
Part II Chapter 4 After the initial weirdly comforting shock of living on our own, Ben and I gradually settled into a mundane daily routine. It took...
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Islands
Come out with me to the island - salt-licked shingle fronds that rock in the wind and vine-snagged relics of an older race. There we can talk free...
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Max's Break-up Part One: Switchblades and Infidelity
He sat alone in the café. His gaze mindlessly wandered across the establishment. Busy workers quickly making all manner of caffeinated drinks for...
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Inquisitive Messenger
As brackish tears begin to flow Through tracks upon my angry skin Horizon bound through greyest skies Final dandelion seed drifts within I stare...
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The Dam
I lived well among childhood's charming things and temptations until about the age of 13 Then some people began to build a dam in our village. From...
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