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McCalliog and his hens (5)

“Milton Keynes?” “Yes, Milton Keynes.” “The McCalliog painting is in Milton Keynes?” “All of your mother’s furniture and fixings are stored in a...
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Tom All Alone 14 (ii)

They were all herded into the large assembly hall first. It was filled with sunlight from the windows that ran along the outside walls. Through them...
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Tom All Alone 14 (i)

The end of their holiday usually meant a return to normal. But not this time. Now, it was all about change. A couple of weeks afterwards, dad started...
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The Amazing Adventure of Amanderella Gottsnobbler Chapter 6

Chapter 6: Up the Amazon in a canoe. Early the next morning, Amanderella was awoken by the sweet scent of coffee and the gentle rustle of leaves...
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Head scratching.

The One Who Must Choose In some traditions (Norse, Slavic, Celtic), fate is flexible. The naked dreamer stands at a crossroads, exposed but empowered...
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The Amazing Adventure of Amanderella Gottsnobbler Chapter 5

Chapter 5: Life on Board. The ship creaked across the Atlantic, stacked high with bicycles. Amanderella quickly discovered that life aboard was...
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Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (19)

Part 18 at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/prophesy-immortal-witch-18 It had been a hectic few days since the advent of the grimoire...
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The Donaldson controversy (6)

The next day, I was expecting Wurlizer to tear my essay apart, but we were instead greeted by yet another lecturer. A woman this time. “Good...
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Ridgeline: Part Eighteen: What She Carries

Fragments. Scott's face in the hospital hallway — not the 6:30 face, not the flat emptied face of a man who'd driven a truck for twelve hours. A...
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Ridgeline - Part Seventeen: Gray Light

The light came without announcement. Not a sunrise. Not the golden spilling that the word "dawn" promises. A grayness — slow, directionless, the sky...