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Loose Lettuce Leaf Factory Tour

Brake squeal announced busload disembark - not locals but a chattering multi-cultural arc. Concentration torn from my romance book I grabbed my bag...
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IT WAS YOU

IT WAS YOU! GOD OF EVERY GRACE IS OUR KEY TO ENDURING FAITH. THE LIVING WORD, OUR RESTING PLACE HERE IS WHERE WE BELONG: WHERE WE SEEK ONLY YOUR FACE...
Cherry

If on a winter's night

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It was the stain on the kitchen wall and the new padlock that always stayed with Garda P.J. Crowe. How the metal gleamed from the pine shed door,...
Cherry

POSTAGE

“ Will you get the mail please, Susan? Take Clement with you. And the gun.” I stood up, shoulders back. “I can drive myself. I’ve got my license now...
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Secret Life

SECRET LIFE #2 THEY SAY WHAT’S DONE IN THE DARK; WILL COME TO LIGHT. BUT WHAT IF THE DARK IS ALL YOU’VE EVER KNOWN? WE SHAPE OUR STORIES LIKE FRAGILE...
Cherry

She Sleeps

The night I got robbed, I couldn’t move. I was 18, youngest one in the shelter, lying on the smoking bench out back. I’d come in late with too many...
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Counting Sleep

I have so many Pinterest boards, they overwhelm me... but it’s necessary I check them every night before sleep. Gazing at the beautiful photos calms...
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Computer Messenger

Computer Messenger… Banter that backfired because literal interpretations got lost in considered connotations, (re-read a thousand times) of what...
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A young Chianti

I’ve followed signs to Yield in Ireland when I’m used to an Aussie Give Way. As I put on bright lipstick, tell you stories of Africa when we were...
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Cherry

The Rest of My Life: The End of Work

I could have used a lie-in this morning because I slept badly. I was probably feeling a bit wired out on the new 'I no longer have to go to work'...
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