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Haibun Thinking: Week 13 – The Monkey Cage

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Michael

My brother and I stand back and look happily on the now half finished monkey cage. There’s a good week before the cage has to be completed. My brother stands back in his working clothes, dusty from the dust generated … Continue reading →

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Wordle #4 – Going up?

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Michael

As my soul winged its way upwards, at least I was hoping it was upwards, you lose all sense of direction when you are thinking you are in pursuit of salvation of any kind. I couldn’t help but reflect on … Continue reading →

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All in a word – Come on Darl!

Posted on April 13, 2014 by Michael

Darl? Darl? Have you mown the lawn yet? Darl? Darl? What? I said Darl have you mown the lawn yet? Darl it has to be mown. The Roberts-Koch’s will be here at three and you know what they are like, … Continue reading →

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Weekly Writing Challenge: Fifty – Skipping a Step

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Michael

For this week’s WordPress weekly writing challenge, you must write a fifty-word story. Not five thousand, not five hundred, but precisely fifty words. My heart beats, expectation, I see you, you move towards me and my knees melt, you are so … Continue reading →

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Haibun Thinking: Week 11 – Aunt Maud

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Michael

It’s the faded signature on the bottom of the postcard that has attracted my attention. I am holding in my hands a piece of family history. My Aunt Maud died in her nineties. Her husband Bill was killed in World … Continue reading →

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Wordle #2 – Predicament.

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Michael

You looked at me askance when I asked you the question. What had happened to you, why was all that was vital about you, your smile, your vivacity now sered beyond recognition. What had happened in those intervening years, for … Continue reading →

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Prompt 49 Frightened Exhilaration – Charming

Posted on March 30, 2014 by Michael

A year after I first mooted the idea of a new musical the show was all but ready to go on. On the final night of the previous Musical I had said to the cast and my fellow director that … Continue reading →

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Wordle #1- Survival

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Michael

The room in which I found myself was dark and when I first hit the floor I was thankful for the straw that lined it. I lay there a while but quickly became aware of the effluvious aroma seeping under … Continue reading →

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Haibun Thinking Week 8: Freestyle Week – Trophies

Posted on March 11, 2014 by Michael

I have you all now. My little darlings, all lined up like the soldiers you are. We have made numerous journeys in all seasons to get to this place. Now I stand back and admire my handiwork, my trophies each … Continue reading →

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Prompt 45 Festering Jealousy – the Office

Posted on March 2, 2014 by Michael

I never thought I was capable of jealousy. I saw myself as a pretty level headed and aware sort of person. Up until Ross, I’d floated my way through life, not a care, causing no waves of any sort. In … Continue reading →

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