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Sensing A New Wonder

Sensing A New Wonder By Paul McCann Jenny’s first real experience of the Emperor and his enchanted garden came when she was bringing an apple tart...
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Pyre Bits
I lay down slow, my bones like wax— and wish you’d lay yours beside me, in the fire pit. Flame would claim us, erase our tracks— while strangers sing...
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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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The Rest of My Life: Fate Accompli

Everything is different because of everything else I came across that line this morning in the book I'm currently reading. It's one of those lines...
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10 Life Lessons. Number 4.
Dad kept Pigeons. At the bottom of our tiny garden was a Pigeon Loft. Dad raced them, as did my Grandad and my Uncle George. Pigeon racing was...
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This winter
Come home this winter I miss you dearly Come back for a dinner No need to be yearly Dust fills the room Where you left in a hurry The glass still...
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Xion Island Carrier: Chapter 12

Nash stared through the one-way glass at James McAlister as the roast beef sandwich he’d wolfed down for lunch refused to settle behind his ribs. The...
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Another excerpt - long. More later
The pikemen's reluctant thumping steps approached from beyond the gatehouse, as Fenryr, to Razael's right and halfway to the center of the yard,...
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The Bible Book of Proverbs

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] A book of a father’s instructions, desiring his child’s good health … So much common-sense, and word-pictures – memorable to stick in the mind …
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The Rest of My Life: First Day...

Monday, 8th September 1975 That was the day the then callow 16-year-old me started work. Fifty years ago, bar the shouting. We were living in Devon...
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Grave (Episode 10 - The Further Chronicles of a Young Lady (and her Maid))

In which 'Arry unearths more than anyone wanted, Gwladys has the job of covering it all up and Aeflethrith has an unexpected visitor.
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Sea-Salt

Why is the sea blue? They say it has to do with reflection—or other— but I think there’s more to uncover. So, if that’s true… why is the sea so...
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Microphones

It used to be that I’d only visit Isolde Terrace for a film on a Friday evening. But I’d started going round on Mondays too, and on Wednesdays and...
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In the Mood (Not)
Sometimes yer in the poetry zone...and sometimes y'aint.
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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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10 Life Lessons. Number 3.

We’ve always had dogs. The first dog I remember was a mongrel called Butch. We went as a family to get him from a neighbour's house. Their dog had...
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That's what my heart yearns for now

“I never thought we would get this far,” she says to me. We raise our glasses and playfully tap them against each other. The waiter asks if he can...
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Joe Don Baker
He was born in Groesback, Texas and his name was Joe Don Baker. Sadly, after living for nearly nine decades, he needed an undertaker. He attended...
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Without Wheels

Without Wheels Old-fashioned suitcases, the ones without wheels... Such treasures themselves for the memories they held. Skippered with no regard to...
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Seventh Place
The horse’s neon hooves hammered against the glass track like gunfire. We tore above a sea of stars. The massive crowd was a blur, a rolling roar...
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