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Love reading everyone's stories, this is such a fun platform. Getting back into writing after a long break - favourite animals - geese, cats & horses

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Love reading everyone's stories, this is such a fun platform. Getting back into writing after a long break - favourite animals - geese, cats & horses

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Signs Of Life

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We arrived in the dark. There was a hum of noise but no sign of humanity, just the occasional barking of a stray dog. Then silence, then another dog would start. And the rustling noise of rodents as they chewed their way through the debris all around.

As light crept grey-tinged over the ruined town colossal murals came into view. Swirls of colour leached into the broken stone walls.

Some sop...

Silence

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1 min read

He was the one that got away

In my cross hairs and then gone

I was ready and waiting

Locked on the target

He flitted across my radar like a ghost

Filling my heart with hope

And then silence

He was the one that got away...

Poetry

Gone

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1 min read

It swished through the deep like a giant blade

Jaws agape and it’s teeth razor sharp

Grey and dark and always hungry

The water closed behind her

But food runs so short

Hungry again

She dives deep

All dark

Gone...

Poetry

Omens

samatna

1 min read

The blind man spoke first

If the crow lands on your roof

Then say your goodbyes

The crow says who lives

And it is beyond all doubt

The crow says who dies...

The Triumph Of Mr Bubbles

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1 min read

Mr Bubbles danced across the stage and bowed as he reached into the black box where the teddy bear had been hidden. The audience all watched, they knew it was a trick that any minute now the teddy would be plucked complete from the box and returned to the little ginger haired girl waiting anxiously.

As he reached into the box no one expected him to bring out a goose, the goose promptly ran arou...

The Island

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1 min read

In winter we are safe the frozen lake is impossible to cross. As we sit around the camp fire different voices offer their opinion.

‘Perhaps they won’t attack’

‘We’ll be ready when they do’ and Marty stands fist raised at the skies but his words are hollow.

We have made weapons from whatever we can find on this little island on the lake, but we are hungry constantly hungry. We ate the berries ...

The Ant Scientist And The Shape

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1 min read

Monday 09.15

The smooth white ovoid seems to be moving under the warm rays from the infrared bulbs.

I measure a perceptible wobble increasing until it is observable without the aid of any instruments.

It is a giant structure and could house hundreds of my kind

Monday 10.15

The ovoid seems motionless now but there is a faint tapping noise

I continued observation but no more to report

Monday 11.15...

Our Hero

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1 min read

She swoops like the falcon she is. One minute the sky seems to be just empty blue and then she is there a fleeting glimpse of brown and yellow as the boy is plucked from the shark infested waters and safely taken to the shore. She is like a trapeze artist, a performer of the highest skills.

Silent and fast and understanding The Peregrine watches from her eyrie and relaxes into her human form, b...

Beautiful Corpses

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1 min read

In their dystopian world, everyone was so obsessed with anti-aging that they forgot the basics.

They knew about skin care, about eating only raw vegetables grown on pure pastures, they remembered to stay out of the sun.

But sadly they forgot hygiene and they forgot to wash the vegetables.

So they may have been beautiful and young for their years but they are all gone now. Wiped out by a nasty ...

Just A Little Bit Guilty

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1 min read

L is for lust

Like I feel for you

G is for gluttony

When I feast without guilt

Gr is for greed

Because I need more and more and more

S is for sloth

As I laze in the sun

W is for wrath

But I don’t feel that

I’m too lazy

Too fat

E is for envy

Which is what I get when I see him with you

P,is for pride

Yup P is for pride

No wisecracks for that

Just the gaps I fall down

And D is for dispair

W...