![An End to a Dream](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/b8c6351f7604fff176b05ddae5266674.jpg) |
It’s an age since I last picked up this pen,An age since I scrawled a word,There once was a time when I’d write it down,All that I’d..
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![The Jar](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/966eb158700099140da2dbf1fa1e5caf.jpg) |
She kept the jar on the mantelpiece,Our Grandma, Eleanor Flood,A plain ceramic with just one flawA cross that was scrawled in blood.We didn’t kn..
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![The Day of the Mushroom Spore](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/f94c0ca4f0dabac67757546d6007003b.jpg) |
It was only the shape of the mushroom cloudThat gave the game away,It’s not that we weren’t expecting it,It could happen any day,But when ..
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![The Clock in the Norman Tower](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/cd24755ca9a74716cc768df4fe89e8ff.jpg) |
Down in the village where I grew upThat sat on the eastern shore,Viking marauders had once shown upTo raze, to pillage and more.They cut a swathe thro..
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![The Gravedigger](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/2b9238593ea81492ddb0227d788af27d.jpg) |
They said that he’d come from the cemeteryAnd I thought he maybe could,In his coat with tails, covered in snailsAnd a cape without a hood,He loo..
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![The Recalcitrant Hand](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/a74a90ee63bdc2cf452627a9c0cfe5fd.jpg) |
They put me in charge of the churchyard,And said, ‘mow between the graves,’The weeds out there were atrociousGrew in lumps, and clumps and..
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![The Ice Log](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/d602bf8f1450fb7da3373e2dc76aa9c8.jpg) |
I’d read of the yacht that was lost at sea,Among the Antarctic ice,I never thought it would matter to meThough its ending wasn’t so nice,T..
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![Whenever the Mist...](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/b580082b91bb31c198f8c465e4980ec6.jpg) |
The hoofbeats come through the mist at nightAnd the sound of clattering wheels,While Ursula sits at the Inn in fright,And we all know how that feels,T..
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![Final Times](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/38dd52d449a7114a19eff4c6c62517cc.jpg) |
The rain came down in a torrent, whileThe rest of the world had slept,The mud it churned was abhorrent,It was as if the planet wept.They said we&rsquo..
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![The Google-up Ghost](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/c26e1e9b45a3e1bff960d034c44b01d7.jpg) |
‘I’ve never believed in ghosts,’ she said,So I said, ‘I’ll prove there are.I’ve seen them at night beside our bed,..
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