| SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 18 AND 130
| | A MODERN SONNET If I described you as old Shakespeare did, Producing all the props that one expects, Sun, moon and stars, the flash of an eyelid Trembling the earth – that you, in all respects, Were... | | Words: | 150 | | Comments: | 4 | | Status: | Public |
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| Three Sonnets from a History Lesson
| | That history rhymes with mystery’s no chance. Examining the past’s like checking poo To see what has been eaten. We advance – But some of us prefer the backward view. Searching for reason in our... | | Words: | 318 | | Comments: | 3 | | Status: | Public |
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| The Car in Front
| | THE CAR IN FRONT... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 20-04-08 |
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| A Tale of Mystery and Imagination
| | No, not by Poe. No nasty bleeding diseases. No pit â?? but quite a lot of pendulum. In fact, just what... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 18-10-06 |
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| Bones
| | Bones. He knew all about bones. He knew about bones in the living because he knew about bones in the... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 26-07-06 |
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| The Mask of Shikyo
| | At every monastery in Japan, however small, those in distress, in need of shelter or comfort, may... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 26-07-06 |
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| Summer Solstice
| | Summer deludes us that there are no limits.... | | Words: | 28 | | Comments: | 15 | | Status: | Public |
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| Ars et Vita
| | When I was young,... | | Words: | 13 | | Comments: | 16 | | Status: | Public |
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| The Wish
| | I want my work to read like a translation... | | Words: | 25 | | Comments: | 12 | | Status: | Public |
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| The Open Door
| | Sitting at his computer he'd been aware... | | Words: | 30 | | Comments: | 11 | | Status: | Public |
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| Poem for Goethe
| | What can you write on... | | Words: | 16 | | Comments: | 25 | | Status: | Public |
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| Trick or Treat
| | When youâ??re young, people always expect you to know things. And if you donâ??t, they insist on telling you, whether you want to be told or not. Resisting that compulsion isnâ??t easy, either for the... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 31-10-05 |
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| Boys and Girls
| | The World's Divided into Boys and Girls -... | | Words: | 185 | | Comments: | 13 | | Status: | Public |
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| The Dangers of Imagination
| | Pay Attention! This Is Complicated! Iâ??m going to explain it as clearly as I can, for the sake of my own safety. The present text is written by me, as an introduction to another text, which I found... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 21-09-05 |
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| Ex Libris; or, Books and Being
| | A collection of books can never be too big; but a house may be too small. So, with time, I have come to be selective in my purchases. Books for me are like people. When I was younger, I used to get... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 21-09-05 |
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| Dialogo
| | DIALOGO Are you Ptolemaic or Copernican? Donâ??t worry â?? Iâ??m not asking about your sexual preferences. Nor yet about your taste in wine â?? that other area of primary importance in life. No â?? nor about... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 21-09-05 |
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| Marking Time
| | Do you ever have the sensation that anything that was interesting happened just before you arrived somewhere? And that that makes you the Odd Person Out? Being Doubting Thomas is one thing ââ?¬â?? at... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 08-09-05 |
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| The Tree House
| | [NB It does emerge from the story, but you might find things easier if you know from the very start that the speaker is a female antiques dealer, who is expecting a baby.] THE TREE HOUSE You mustn�t... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 08-09-05 |
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| Truth
| | Truth, which, like bone, remains... | | Words: | 21 | | Comments: | 11 | | Status: | Public |
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| Life and Art
| | When I was adolescent, I wrote sonnets,... | | Words: | 105 | | Comments: | 5 | | Status: | Public |
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| Watch Where You Walk
| | Tread carefully. Wherever you set your feet,... | | Words: | 105 | | Comments: | 4 | | Status: | Public |
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| Love
| | Love... | | Words: | 13 | | Comments: | 3 | | Status: | Public |
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| The Story Mine
| | I am a liar. Yes, of course you are, you say â?? Youâ??re a storyteller. No, itâ??s worse than that. You see, Iâ??m not a storyteller at all. Thatâ??s the lie â?? or at least one of them. Though maybe, if Iâ??m a... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 04-09-05 |
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| The Purpose of Art
| | What some people consider as rubbish, others are eager to collect and preserve. And vice-versa. That was what the four students found themselves thinking as they began clearing out the cupboard under... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 04-09-05 |
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| Nothing Ever Happens in Lincolnshire
| | NOTHING EVER HAPPENS IN LINCOLNSHIRE which is why I was happy to be there. Iâ??ve seen too many things happen in my life. I had time enough to get used to Saigon before it fell. Then I caught a bit of... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 04-09-05 |
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