Grief bides even in the sun

Random Word: Feasting

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Once upon a time

Image Maker: Paul

By firelight did we sit

faces flickering out of shadows

with tales of darker deeds

to crackles and hooting owls

an innocence  long gone

Random Word: Firelight

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The sea calls true but to the land am I bound

Image Maker David Archer

Al's secret lottery dream was Di with him at sail by storm or sun. When they won, he settled for a cruise as love meant more than dreams.

Random Word:Homily

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To be aristocratic in Art one must avoid common society

 

 

 

Lady Smyth was horrified to see who the poetry reader was. It was the Stephen Fry debacle again, only this one was gay and an Australian.

 

 

 

Random Word: Austral

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It ain’t always the money

 

El's well business made him rich but his son baulked at the gold thrown at the crazy boat builder. Once the rain stopped, he’d pull the job.

Random Word: Impecunious  

 

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The old ways

 

 

The two musicians faced each other. One played in the new way. Unseen from the crowd he was tripped to his death. The woman played louder.

Random Word:Mau-Mau

 

 

 

Image Source:Carlos Diaz 

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Well Hung

 

 

‘The entrants are good this year.’ It was a lie, the paintings were crap. But then she spotted a winner.‘It’s all in the hanging,’ she said.

Random Word:Dark Horse

 

 

 

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So cough and plough don't sound the same?

 

 

He died they say at noon
in ways deserving a tune.
A common hero, not zero
who misread that he was to lead
when wrote was lead guaranteed.

 

Random Word: Orthography

 

 

 

 

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Dying for Democracy

 

 

The leg was the breakthrough – the rest of the body long gnawed and rotted but stuck in a sand patch was a swimmer’s leg.They had found her.

 

 Random Word:  natatorial swimmer's

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Are we the first?

 

'So let's say, we dress up as frogs, and meet by the traffic lights to do the Thriller dance, you know, the zombie one. It'll be so cool.'

 

Random Word: Flash mob

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Talks in the English Countryside

 Peppermint

We need a decision. So its no to A taste of French cheeses. 'I only stuck up for English Cheddar.'

'Yes, thanks, Marge'
'And, to Tom’s suggestion of Plymouth matches 1890-1939.'
'I could do it with slides'.
'We aired that Tom. So we are left with The Fun of Peppermint?'