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  • Here’s your Monday smile – it’s limerick time. Send in your own or here’s a prompt for you – TRAIN Here are a few limericks to make you smile this Monday. The prompt last week was SPORT. Keith Channing: Sport can be fun, but I’m lazy. Perhaps I’m a little bit hazy, Only I see…

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  • It’s Thursday and your new five-word challenge is here. This week, your prompt is FRUIT. So can you tell a story in five words, using the word FRUIT in it somewhere? Here are your THING stories from last week: Ritu: This thing, too, shall pass. Need to tell you something. Things are looking up, finally.…

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  • Fairies Part Two

    For part one, click here I am shaking with sobs now. I know the answer. I know the things Eleanor has seen. Things a seven-year-old shouldn’t see, shouldn’t ever know anything about. And I could do nothing about it. I couldn’t stop it, I couldn’t save her. But it wasn’t always like this. Her daddy…

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  • Here’s your Monday smile – it’s limerick time. Send in your own or here’s a prompt for you – SPORT Here are a few limericks to make you smile this Monday. The prompt last week was GIFT. Keith Channing: A friendship that’s suffered a rift Can sometimes be healed by a gift. An ill thought-out…

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  • It’s Thursday and your new five-word challenge is here. This week, your prompt is THING. So can you tell a story in five words, using the word THING in it somewhere? Here are your BATH stories from last week: Ritu: Bubble baths – my favourite treat. How do you say ‘bath’? Christine Mallaband-Brown: Bath, town…

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  • Fairies Part One

    She’s seeing things again. My dear, sweet, Eleanor. I watch her and yearn to reach out my hand and stroke her long, brown hair, to tuck it back behind her ears. The tiny girl turns. She knows I am watching. Such sadness in those glorious eyes. My fingers are edging nearer. I stop. I can’t…

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  • Here’s your Monday smile – it’s limerick time. Send in your own or here’s a prompt for you – GIFT Here are a few limericks to make you smile this Monday. The prompt last week was BOSS. Keith Channing: If your company runs at a loss The person to blame is the boss. You have…

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  • It’s Thursday and your new five-word challenge is here. This week, your prompt is BATH. So can you tell a story in five words, using the word BATH in it somewhere? Here are your NIGHT stories from last week: Keith Channing: Now In Green – Holly Trees. Now It’s Gone – Hateful Tonsillitis. Now I’ll…

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  • It’s Thursday and your new five-word challenge is here. This week, your prompt is NIGHT – suggested by Lance Greenfield. Thank you, Lance! So can you tell a story in five words, using the word NIGHT in it somewhere? Here are your LETTERS stories from last week: Keith Channing: Letters make words make language. Ritu:…

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  • It’s Thursday and your new five-word challenge is here. This week, your prompt is LETTERS. So can you tell a story in five words, using the word LETTERS in it somewhere? Here are your PYJAMAS stories from last week: Kevin Morris: I’m still wearing her pyjamas. Pyjamas lost in the Bahamas. Strange pyjamas found in…

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