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Saturday, 26 July 2025
Flash fiction: A Time of Darkness
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It doesn’t repeat. But it rhymes I hadn’t thought about that day for a while. But I’d never forgotten it, or what he’d said. I knew so lit...
Saturday, 15 February 2025
Flash fiction: A History Lesson
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Why do we study it? It was the last lesson of the day. Mr Balcombe donned his mortarboard and his gown. White chalk powder adorned the la...
Friday, 5 April 2024
Flash fiction: Rhodri’s Maps
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They hanged the man and flogged the woman who stole the goose from off the common But let the bigger thief go loose who stole the common f...
Friday, 23 February 2024
Attlee, Bevin and the New Jerusalem
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The next UK government will inherit a mess, but not as bad as Clement Attlee did in 1945. Yet the Attlee government not only coped. It made ...
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