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An Offer

Robyn MacKinnon·October 30, 2022

An Offer written by: Robyn MacKinnon @art_rat show me a lizard are making soup like witches an...

Poetry Halloween English Robyn Finds Poetry Robyn MacKinnon

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Hog Swill

Fay L. Loomis·June 8, 2022

Hog Swill written by: Fay L. Loomis Dad held the purse strings as tight as his fist...

Literature English

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Pierogi ze Skwarkami

Radosław Marcin Bartz·March 30, 2022

Pierogi ze Skwarkami written by: Radosław Marcin Bartz rzecz działa się pięćdziesiąt może sześćdziesiąt lat temu wszyscy...

Polish International Poetry

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The Stone In The Soup

JPK·October 13, 2020

The Stone In The Soup written by: JPK A beggarman came and he sat alone by the...

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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