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The Pilots of Penzance
Call to Coastguard, Motor Schooner Benedict in distress, received at 19.18.
Eight souls on board.
Lost engine p...
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Where has it gone?
Where has it gone; has anyone seen it?
Has somebody been stealing time?
It was half-past six an hour ago,
And now ...
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The Summer Dance
A voice. One she knew so well, her mind told her, yet she couldn’t place it. Telling her a story, a fantastic tale of m...
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The young couple found the address without any problem, and parked their car amongst a dozen others along the curving driveway.
New to t...
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A relative had died intestate, and the vultures had descended.
Were the four single silver candlesticks of the same value to that of the...
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A young man had given a Chinese puzzle box to a young lady, but with no note or explanation to accompany it.
It had taken her a nearly w...
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A horse had bolted. On its own that wouldn’t have been a problem, but the terrified animal was still in the shafts of a cart at the time....
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An extract from a novella I started writing last year in an attempt to keep my mind active during lockdown: -
Lady Charlotte Wardle Mrs ...
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Dolly Rolands had been born Dalores Worthy in an upstairs room of the Jolly Farmer tavern, and had lived there all her life. Growing up s...
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The Oak Tree
There’s an Oak Tree in my garden,
But it isn’t very tall,
It’s only a hand span high,
So, it’s barely a tree at all.
I ...
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Continuing the discussion from Leisurely Scribbles (part 5) (Part 1) - #16757 by Jem.
Previous discussions:
Leisurely Scribbles (part ...
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A relative had died intestate, and the vultures had descended.
Were the four single silver candlesticks of the same value to that of the...
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Part 1
David Croker was sitting in a dockside tavern near the office where he worked, as was his wont on a Friday evening before going h...
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A horse had bolted. On its own that wouldn’t have been a problem, but the terrified animal was still in the shafts of a cart at the time....
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An extract from a novella I started writing last year in an attempt to keep my mind active during lockdown: -
Lady Charlotte Wardle Mrs ...
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Where has it gone?
Where has it gone; has anyone seen it?
Has somebody been stealing time?
It was half-past six an hour ago,
And now ...
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Tomorrow I will set off on my bike.
I don’t yet know the road that I will take.
I’m free to go most anywhere I like.
I may well turn...
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I found this article really interesting! A bookshop owner in Edinburgh loves typewriters, and typed a letter to Tom Hanks, who replied wi...
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The Summer Dance
A voice. One she knew so well, her mind told her, yet she couldn’t place it. Telling her a story, a fantastic tale of m...
New
The Oak Tree
There’s an Oak Tree in my garden,
But it isn’t very tall,
It’s only a hand span high,
So, it’s barely a tree at all.
I ...
New
Dolly Rolands had been born Dalores Worthy in an upstairs room of the Jolly Farmer tavern, and had lived there all her life. Growing up s...
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A young man had given a Chinese puzzle box to a young lady, but with no note or explanation to accompany it.
It had taken her a nearly w...
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When I was twenty-one, my divorced uncle remarried, at which point I gained a new aunt and two instant young (female) cousins, all of who...
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The Pilots of Penzance
Call to Coastguard, Motor Schooner Benedict in distress, received at 19.18.
Eight souls on board.
Lost engine p...
New
The young couple found the address without any problem, and parked their car amongst a dozen others along the curving driveway.
New to t...
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HOT IN Writing Last 3 Years!
Prompted by Pauline’s thread about internet dating!
MY INTERNET LOVER !
We’ve never met - but I know you
in my dreams. I feel you...
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[CENTER]Introduction Part 1[/CENTER]
Philip’s parents were Albert and Sarah Marsden. Albert’s father had been a carpenter and very p...
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OLD TOM
They pushed his wheel chair near to the window, placed what passed for a cup of tea on the table beside him, and went to deal wi...
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On windy days, I often think back to something that happened long, long ago when I was but a boy, and health and safety was still in shor...
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I’ve had my new bike for about three weeks now, and have managed to get out on it every weekend since I brought it home. I know that mem...
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HOT IN Writing Over 3 Years!
We made a bad mistake there Pug, sure enough we should have stuck with our punts and punted our way out of trouble, now we’re slowly drif...
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I consumed a large helping of ‘LSD’ this morning: In a runners world ‘LSD’ means ‘Long Slow Distance’ but ...
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I’m living in the world of Miss Marples
Where nothing is ever what it seems
But for an hour or two my world does turn blue
And I’m liv...
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you got an hour lunch break?? - no wonder they were makin more money than thou - they probably got no breaks!! mind you I bet their libi...
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Crustabel Extracts Revenge
(Goodness Gracious - Great Balls a-Fire!)
Sorry folks. I’ve tried to submit this but I’m not allowed to...
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I think it’s high time I stopped intruding into other real poetic threads in the leisure and pastime section and begin a thread of my own...
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If you think something is too good to be true, it is.
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Bel Tries to Relax
(and Crusty Makes Her Very Proud!)[/CENTER][/B]
It was now two thirty, and after Bel had said farewe...
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I love to write poetry so I thought I’d start a thread in this section for my poems so I can post more. I hope you enjoy my poems, some ...
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The Hippo and the Bird.
The hippo’s delight was far out of sight,
As she lay in an innocent pose.
Delighted by water
This pachyderm’s...
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How about a story in just one sentence? Anyone up for the challenge?
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Mandy & the V.I.P.s
In my days working for a D.I.Y. chain it was difficult to take a lunch break, so different from the department s...
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Let’s face it - English is a crazy language.
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger;
Neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
En...
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OK, today is the start of my new novel day. So far it is to be about 2 men from different backgrounds finding themselves driven to certai...
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Hello My daughter is writing and doesnt know how to get how to find out if it is worth publishing and how to go about it, can any one giv...
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