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Ring out the Old, Ring in the New
Yes, yes, yes. New Year’s Eve is a perfect day to ring out the current boyfriend to be available for new love starting the next day. Decluttering I call it.…
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Freedom Within
She danced among the cherry blossom trees lined along the road as far as the eye could see. A flood of water lay stagnant at the edge of the road…
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Operation Christmas Bypass
Mickey swore he didn’t mean to do it. Santy was having none of it. ‘Mickey, I’ve told you several times to stop messing around with machinery. Red lights mean stop.…
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My Dad’s Cardigan
December the first arrived and my husband started his ranting. I ignored him as long as I could, but once the week before Christmas came, there was no escaping it.…
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The Homeless Persons Christmas
The church bells rang, Peadar began to sing along. “The bells of the Angelus, is calling to pray, in sweet tones announcing the sacred Ave…” “That’s not the right words,”…
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The Last Connection
Tim sat alone in the big stone house. The fire blazed and yet he felt cold. The flames licked the sods of turf within the stove, dancing around the sides…
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They (Anxiety of a mother)
They tumbled, they fell, they let out a yell. They are sick, broken down, they are lost in that town. They said there was no delay, they wouldn’t stay the…
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The Quitting Game
“Winners never quit and quitters never win,” has always been my motto. I was no quitter, I was persistent. At nineteen with legs up to my armpits and assets other…
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It’s a Dog’s Life
Lucy lived a mile outside town, in an old two-bedroom cottage, twenty minutes’ drive from work and fifteen minutes’ walk from the town. She moved in with her scruffy terrier…
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No Words
Between my finger and my thumb, the squat pen rests; snug as a gun, but no words will come. I want to shoot the ink on to the blank page:…