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Dave and The Tree House

Jim Bates·August 3, 2020

Dave and The Tree House written by: Jim Bates I don’t know why I ended up taking...

English Literature

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New Year’s Treehouse

Robyn MacKinnon·December 30, 2018

New Year’s Treehouse found poetry written by: Robyn MacKinnon @art_rat binge eating and then like, a really...

Robyn MacKinnon Poetry English Robyn Finds Poetry

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The Treehouse

Danielle Pegg·February 7, 2018

The Treehouse written by: Danielle Pegg @scrambledpegg He travelled past the workmen and down the West road...

English Poetry

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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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