Useful Knowledge

One learning-curve; of anything else, I know nothing!   What have I learnt after living a long and happy bachelor life? I’ve learnt, a dog, setting off on the poop trail loop from home, pulls like a drag-hound on a scent, until exactly halfway, where, between five- yard meat-bit bribes, it suddenly becomes a bag of coal, refusing to budge a homeward inch! I’ve learnt, a horse on its rural ride is […]

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Senescence’s Inner Voice

don’t behold it with dread, or dwell on its premonitions, enjoy its creativity! Pic.: watercolour, small part of ‘Earthliness’ my own   As the bacon sizzled…smelling so good..          …shrunken to insignificant, I’m socially-housed in lodgings, with other boars, hogs, and swine,     at the end of the meat market, by the abattoir         […]

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The Comfort Of Knowing

one’s own character in a social vacuum; the site’s become a sad indictment of the times   During one moment in time on a desolute track on our vast planet, two walkers met, one stepping aside to allow the other to pass. My greeting unanswered, rejoining the path, I thought: you can’t know it, but if anything bad happened to you, a […]

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Beautiful Secret

kept to the end. Fictional(?) – sadly!   On sunlit London streets, paved not with gold, but warm grey stones edged with glass- and brick-dust, our timeless friend, that innermost thinker and most honest commentator, is helping piece together sparsely-recalled fragments of a long journey through time. At an age when the end could be far sooner than later, I […]

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Square-Meal Day

every day, if she could afford a simple sprinkler and tank   However she angled it, the hoe juddered over dry, arable land. She headed home. The family would have chapati bread again, but, needed protein, vegetables, nuts, and, hopefully today, some fresh fruit. Handcart wheel still broken, she put a sack on her back, and facing the rising sun, set off for the city. […]

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Writing & Reading Matters

Conveyed honestly, defining preference, not prejudice, in line with own real experiences, in today’s world, can leave you vulnerable to those who can’t see the difference. Flash fiction. Pic.: my own   For cyberspace authors wanting to escape from painful truths, the novel use of words will enshrine, or ridicule, anything. Visioned reader, always present in formalistic minds, oversees each […]

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