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Dining with the Bird, a poem by Olivia Todd at Spillwords.com

New Habits or How Not to Forget

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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An Unexpected Connection

The Wheels on the Bus

The Keys

Interviews

Spotlight On Writers – Pramod Rastogi

Interview Q&A With Jim Wilson-Storey

Spotlight On Writers – Patricia Carragon

Lost Dreams

Arched Smile

Angelic Intervention

Dining with the Bird

Stranger in the Photo

New Habits or How Not to Forget

My Type of Waste

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An Unexpected Connection

The Wheels on the Bus

The Keys

Ode To My Headphones

Before The Final March

Courgettes

Invisibility Cloak

Lost Dreams

Arched Smile

Hardboiled are the Coldest of Mornings

Petrified

Angelic Intervention