Category: REPOST
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Characters Calling: Caitlin
Apologies for this repost, but I couldn’t resist Caitlin’s demands to post this again. She made me write this in the first place, but, if I’m being honest, I rather quite like it myself.There will be one or two more reposts shortly, I’m being bombarded with requests from the other characters I’ve written about… and…
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Contemplation of the cat
The dark. The cool. The shade. It’s late. I’m alone. Footsteps ahead.I hide. Crouching silently. Waiting patiently.Twigs crack. Birds squawk. Eyes narrow.I watch. I stare.It’s now. Or never.I stretch. I pounce. I reach. I flex. I grab. I miss. Next time. I’ll feed. I’m hungry.
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Waiting and thinking
The wind blew the dusty grit right into our eyes as we stood at the wagonette stop. Since the great sandstorm, and motorised vehicles were written off in one foul-tasting swoop, we’ve all had to go back to the old-fashioned way of travelling by horse. Those with the money had their own horses or five,…
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Ivy Giles
Ivy Giles is the farmer’s wifeOr was, as the case may beFor when she was in her human lifeIt was Seventeen Sixty-Three Patience, her faithful dogHad a loud and ferocious barkAnd Silas, her trusty mogHad an aversion to the dark She had a pig named Primrose BlueWho didn’t like the catHe wasn’t keen on Patience…
