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Disillusion

Marta Compagnone·October 24, 2016

Disillusion written by: Marta Compagnone @martacompagnone So the world falls down, we live in a ghost town...

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Savage Partners

Stanley Wilkin·September 21, 2016

Savage Partners written by: Stanley Wilkin @catalhuyuk How strange it was to see her there After so...

English Poetry

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Price Of Bravery

Alyssa Gwen·August 16, 2016

Price of Bravery written by: Alyssa Gwen @Alyssa_myverses Been away too long the bohemian gene in my...

English

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I was born and raised in Yorkshire, England. At fifteen I left school without the skills or maturity to appreciate the wider world. At nineteen I packed a bag and wandered through Europe and North Africa, learning from the road. At twenty‑five I earned the qualifications for university, eventually becoming a high school teacher and later an education manager. Now I live with my amazing wife on an island north of Seattle. After retiring and with encouragement from Spillwords and the Clever Park Writers Group, I traded reports for storytelling. And that's where the fiction began...

Cast Off by Niall Crowley

The two computer screens tighten their grip. Tom pivots between them, tracking one while he works on the other. Careful discipline from early morning to close of business. Number crunching, he would have termed it before. Now it’s data management and verification, his task to model and tabulate clients’ financial situations and options. Bookkeeping, he would admit to, in more candid moments. He’s tethered firmly to the task, though, and has been since he started here, nearly two years now. Bound in the rigour the work requires, as if life itself depends on it. Top floor, dormer window ...

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