Category: Words
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A Seahorse? Nonsense!
When is a horse not a horse? When it’s a horse of the sea, of course. Of course it isn’t a horse of sorts, it’s a sort of fish or so we’re taught. A fish horse thought it ought be called something wrought with water’s thought, so thought the sea a fitting thought, thus the…
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The Looking Glass
It’s the odd things that pique my interest. I noticed how the stars, no the whole Universe, comes alive when I look upon it through my glass disc. The stars themselves, when viewed, are just the same size, only more vibrant and more spread apart. Galaxies and colours form in an abstract rendering of natural…
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Sssssunssssset!
“So, Jake, what’ll it be…” Nutmeg Dolnoon glanced at the other end of the bar and froze… Jake ‘Cesspit Yellowbelly’ Jones followed her gaze and instantly cowered around the corner of the bar, the top of his stetson and his eyes the only things visible, “if there’s one thing I can’t stand,” he whispered, “it’s…
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The Yelby Express
The air-raid siren sounded just as I arrived at the station, but the guard assured me it was just the new nightly test… I wasn’t too sure, horrible sound that it is, but I paid my two pounds and six shillings for my ticket to Yelby. I hugged Hestle farewell, and we waved to each…
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Previously
She found him slumped, propped up against the gate she needed to use to get into the back entrance of the Olive Lounge. Her long red hair, tied back by a number of ribbons, wound itself over her shoulder and hung forward as she leaned over the pale man. ‘Why are you here… what are…
