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A husband and a wife each decide to contract a hitman to kill the other - with unexpected results.

‘National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.’ — Richard Rorty

Colleagues try to retrieve a typescript after its author suffers a stroke - with unexpected results.

‘Everything you are comes from your choices.’ — Jeff Bezos

Talents show up when they’re needed… ‘Best Approach to Kiama’ painting by Carole Massey

‘Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.’ – Guy de Maupassant

An elderly and infirm rich man's wife joins her lover in Paris - with unforeseen results

Sports poem about being picked last,,,surprise ending,,hut hut hike.

Cultural differences - the way we speak.

Short parable poem about trust and sharing.

A short and silly poem about funny family situations that come up occasionally.

‘The soldier is the army. No army is better than its soldiers.’ -General George S. Patton Jr.

Kids story about old school families.

An ex-pat barber living in Gozo tries to become a living resolution of a famous paradox.

Might just be the one he received before making the song

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. — Audrey Hepburn

‘Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more’ – Shakey’s Henry V

A few of my own Laurel and Hardy stories.

‘War (conflict) means fighting (contact), and fighting (contact) means killing (inflicting & incurring casualties)’- Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest (politically incorrect male)

Life is a picnic on a precipice – W.H. Auden

A few pieces of writing based on Star Wars, but with several twists and a touch of humour.