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What You Do

Deborah Joan Jones·June 19, 2020

What You Do written by: Deborah Joan Jones Look around, who do you know who truly has...

English Poetry

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Inside

Brad Osborne·August 2, 2019

Inside written by: Brad Osborne The me I hide The me inside A little boy A broken...

English Poetry

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She Flies

Gauri Dixit·October 16, 2018

She Flies written by: Gauri Dixit She flies With the rest of them High In the sky...

Poetry English

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The Plight Of The Bungled Being

Michael Shea·November 5, 2016

The plight of the bungled being written by: Michael Shea @calmsbehaviour As many things do, this piece...

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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