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It requires someone with balls to defy the Sultan but none of the chaps around here are up to the task. He made sure that they didn't have any ideas of consorting with his wives and concubines by castrating the lot. I have managed to escape the eunuchs' fate by a clever ruse. I smuggled myself into the harem dressed as a woman so ugly that he wouldn't have dreamed of making a pass at ...

Posing of such magnitude took a great deal of effort.  Paul made it look easy, unstudied even.    The arm draped across the back of the chair; legs crossed at the knee; languid hand, palm down.  But the strain showed  in the eyes. It was a mistake to close his eyes whilst his head tilted to face the sun.  There was puffy discolouration, visible at that angle, beneath both eyes.  I’d never seen him take ...

Worrying times. “You look worried. What's troubling you, Watson?” “It is the lockdown, Sir.” “Dammit, man! We are all concerned about it but we have to put up with the inconvenience if we want to get rid of the Covid virus.” “It is not that, Sir, it's the traffic light system.” “What is the problem? It is elementary dear Watson, you don't need a Sherlock to explain it. You are are an experienced officer and ...

The new normal created a new economic driver and race, and population control over time – The Zombie. The United Nations ‘UNMZI’ – ‘United Nations Mission Zombie Integration’ and slogan ‘We live off each other’.  Singing tonight the first Zombie, ‘Zalo’ live-ish on ‘Lockdowns got Talent’: Simon “Excited to see you in the flesh. Let me pick your brains, why singing, Zalo?” Zalo “So nice to see a happy menu, I mean audience, (Giggles) I ...

It’s real quiet. No clanging doors. No clatter of shuffling boots. Been a while since we had total lockdown. Soon we'll start the cell-to-cell search. Took ten seconds to pull Whacky-Will Boulder off Sly Penny, but that’s all he needed to crack open Sly’s head like a coconut. Whacky’s a lifer. His mum’s been bringing him copies of the Beano and Dandy every Wednesday for fifteen years -- keeps him calm. By Sunday Whack’s read ...

Content WARNING!                 PARENTAL GUIDANCE RECOMMENDED ...

Now being a widower, and living alone, lockdown was not much different from his normal life. He would get up early, eat his breakfast, and then pass the day in his set routine, centred around his reading and radio, with some television in the evening before an early bedtime. What changed was his time in the bathroom. Once shaved, he spent more and more time studying his face in the mirror. Gradually, he began to ...

Some people have very strange hobbies ...

Walls have ears. (Flash fiction - 400 words) ...

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This started out as non-fiction, and ended up a mixture of truth and lies ...

War can be a funny thing… ...

  The curious title of the book prominently displayed in the bookshop's window caught my attention ...

A love story ...

Childhood memories ...