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Looking up
The sky is a canvas, cloud scenes float by …
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Bench
Two old men sat one wore gingham the other a hat. On the bench a plaque that reads ‘I love you, We loved this view.’ Or something like that.
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Home
I hum in the spaces between the birdsong and the breeze My hand stretched out of the window catching pollen and dust that's kicked up from below...
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Amanderella and the Mystery of the Silent Statue.Chapter 6.
Chapter Six. Back inside. They stepped back into the hall, the door closing behind them with its usual, faintly smug click. Sir Cottam glanced around...
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Spellbound Chapter 2.
Chapter Two. A Royal Summons. They had not gone very far before they were met by a party of Foresters. These men were responsible for keeping the...
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Incredible India - Part 2
The second part of the autobigraphical account of my trip to India in the late 1960s. Part 3 will follow later...
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I Have Other Books
Not much to see here, do carry on. Image author's own.
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Incredible India - Part 1
The first part of an autobiographical account of an Indian experience in the late 1960s and early 1970s
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The Moment You Step Outside
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A literary fiction short story. Our narrator has a terrible secret.
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A Letter To ABC Tales Friends
Dear friends, I'm really sorry I've not been around lately. I'm trying hard to be strong and resilient during my chemotherapy, but it does get really...
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Spellbound Chapter 1.
Chapter One. Decision Time. Calizone sat by the fire in her cottage in the Dark Forest, feeling her age. She had been the Witch of the Dark Forest...
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Amanderella and the Mystery of the Silent Statue.Chapter 5.
Chapter Five. More Mysteries. “Once upon a time, the front door would have been opened by a housekeeper, or a butler. But Werlyn dismissed them all...
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3.4 The Paper Trail
Mr Rat reclined in a joali —a handmade outdoor couch with a row of multiple seats built from sticks and knitted with a hammock-like netting. The...
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you cry, you die. chapter 1
23 April 2001 The phone didn't ring. It hummed a low, subterranean vibration against the faux-wood of the hazel-rimmed bedside table precisely at 03:...
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All The Ones Are Taken
And I am sorry. I never became the girl you could stand behind, the one you would root for. But I promise you this. I was never the girl you could...
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What If Challenge - They're Here For the Chickens
Firstly, 'what if' is a game I have recently started playing with my kids to get their imaginations going by starting with one random question and...
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A Game of Cricket
If life, as they say, is like a game of cricket, We're certainly on a sticky wicket. The loose ball will end in a thicket, But vicious bouncers will...
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St Leonards to Bexhill-on-Sea
The train was packed with day-trippers. Through a gap in the seats I spied a young woman with an alarmingly contoured face; its soft planes a...
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