The cruise

THE CRUISE We boarded the huge cruise liner in Venice, Italy for a seven day trip up into the Baltic Sea, with stops in Athens and Istanbul, then on to Yalta and Odessa before returning[…]

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Honesty

Lying in near silence on his bedroll, Xavier squirms uncomfortably. The padding was nothing more than soft rabbit hides stitched together, and left plenty of chances for the rocks beneath him to bump through. He[…]

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Guido s high note

The early October morning brought me to the Crazy Water Hotel in downtown Mineral Wells, Texas. For years, it has been a retirement home for Senior citizens, over the age of fifty. The work order[…]

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The party

== The Party by LO == I was sitting alone, watching TV, when the boy peeked around the edge of the door and then came into the family room. He came over and sat down[…]

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Gill a short story

Gill We left the relative shade of the peristyle garden with its white marble fountain depicting Venus, a ewer hoisted on her shoulder. The trickling figure stood in the centre of a shallow square pool,[…]

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