Spinning a yarn

By amlee

Little stories that caught me.

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Counting backwards from ten

By amlee on Thu, 09 Sep 2010

Anyone who's lain on a gurney and had nothing but a hospital gown between them and the knife will get the title......
Love
Story
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A Birthday Offering

By amlee on Tue, 24 Apr 2012

Marking a milestone of a woman aged - never you mind - and three quarters.
Autobiography
Story
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A Chinese Wife: "Follow"

By amlee on Sat, 10 Sep 2011

Another chapter in my novella: A Chinese Wife. (recently updated version)
Autobiography
Story
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A Chinese Wife: Conversations over a soy sauce dish

By amlee on Thu, 19 May 2011

A tester chapter from a short story entitled "A Chinese Wife".
Autobiography
Story
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A Walk in the Woods

By amlee on Wed, 30 May 2012

Unfragranced.
Story
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CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN

By amlee on Sat, 29 Jun 2013

Upwardly mobile.
Love
Story
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Conversations with my Tom Tom (II)

By amlee on Sun, 19 Sep 2010

Night erases everything.
Love
Story
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FOR THE PLEASURE OF YOUR COMPANY

By amlee on Sat, 18 May 2013

Abide with me.
Love
Story
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Letters from.Jakarta: All I Want is the Air that You Breathe...

By amlee on Fri, 26 Apr 2013

Smoke gets in your eyes in Indonesia...
Journal
Story
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In Her Own Right

By amlee on Thu, 12 May 2011

Femme fatale??
Autobiography
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When Cicadas Start to Sing

By amlee on Fri, 12 Aug 2011

Insect love.
Love
Story
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Friday's Child

By amlee on Thu, 12 Apr 2012

TGIF.
Autobiography
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The Chinese Wife: Divorce by Colours

By amlee on Sun, 22 Apr 2012

A next chapter.
Autobiography
Story
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Travels on my own: Your Woman in Hong Kong

By amlee on Fri, 11 May 2012

The Prodigal Daughter Returns...again.
Autobiography
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Transit of Venus

By amlee on Sun, 10 Jun 2012

As planets collide...
Love
Story
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Loss of Day

By amlee on Sun, 02 Sep 2012

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine...
Nature
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Drop Zone (repost)

By amlee on Thu, 15 Nov 2012

and then I fell out of the plane...
Love
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Postnatal Blues

By amlee on Sat, 29 Dec 2012

not so silent night...
Spiritual
Story
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Let Us Knot

By amlee on Thu, 28 Mar 2013

He says, she says...
Love
Story
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The Time of Our Lives

By amlee on Sat, 17 Aug 2013

Time. We think there's so much of it, we often just let the hours, days and years sneak past right under our noses, and won't realise we've...
Miscellaneous
Story
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Autumn Blues

By amlee on Thu, 03 Oct 2013

In a rare moment of grace and space, albeit enforced through illness, I have the luxury to sit and stare. Autumn is here in the city. The flowers on...
Nature
Story
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Seeing Red

By amlee on Tue, 12 Nov 2013

I watched the sky at sunset tonight. I'd been looking at the sky all day today, at different times, looking for elevation, and change. I noted the...
Autobiography
Story
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The Little Matchbox

By amlee on Tue, 19 Nov 2013

A picture came to my mind recently, when I was in meditative mode. I had a vision of a small matchbox. It was sitting in a forlorn corner of a wall...
Philosophy
Story
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SKY FALL: All in a Day's Work For a Homeless Shelter Runner

By amlee on Fri, 22 Nov 2013

Think I've found a new strap line for The Shelter Project Hounslow: TSPH; contains nut. So for the second time in my life I got pushed out of a tiny...
Journal
Story
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THE CHINESE WIFE: The Life of Wry Lee

By amlee on Sun, 29 Dec 2013

Well. It's official. I've got a reputation now of being unpredictable, of being a bolt-and-runner. A day ago I was sitting at my table at home mid-...
Autobiography
Story
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Catch a Falling Star

By amlee on Tue, 16 Dec 2014

A few nights ago I saw, under the fading shadow of half a silver penny moon - the weeping death of shooting stars - seven in all during the deepest...
Spiritual
Story
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Autumn Angling

By amlee on Mon, 23 Nov 2015

Isn't this the time of year when one could gaze in endless wonderment, as Nature, frantic in the final closure of autumn, braces itself against clear...
Nature
Biography
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Mommy's Day Thoughts - For the Kids

By amlee on Sun, 06 Mar 2016

It's Mothering Sunday in England today. Commiserations rest of the world, you'll have to wait for yours two months later. But in these waters, people...
Opinion
Non-fiction
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Swan Song 2016

By amlee on Mon, 25 Apr 2016

So. The day has come. You hit the big birthday that dangerously pitches you nearer the Queen's range of celebrations, rather than some Sweet Sixteen...
Autobiography
Biography
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