Submissions by JPYoung
A Pride of Marines
Story
Two hundred and fifty proud years of bravery and eccentricity…
11 mins
Words: 2282
Read Time: 11 mins
Read Time: 11 mins
Thanks-Living
Story
‘Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.’ - Doris Day
9 mins
Words: 1853
Read Time: 9 mins
Read Time: 9 mins
The Backup Girl
Story
‘Always love a woman for her personality. They have like 10, so you can choose.’ - Hillary Harley
7 mins
Words: 1584
Read Time: 7 mins
Read Time: 7 mins
The Ephemerals
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‘Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day.’ - Carl Sagan
5 mins
Words: 1014
Read Time: 5 mins
Read Time: 5 mins
Krimi: The Third Victim of Frikko
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Hier spricht nicht Edgar Wallace!
20 mins
Words: 4130
Read Time: 20 mins
Read Time: 20 mins
An Impromptu Incongruous Interlude with My Auntie Sam
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‘Two drifters…off to see the world…’– Johnny Mercer ‘Moon River’
8 mins
Words: 1701
Read Time: 8 mins
Read Time: 8 mins
Flip! Flop! Floop!!!
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‘Who’s Zin Taylor? I’ll choose Zin Taylor. Get me Zin Taylor! Get me a Zin Taylor type! Get me a young Zin Taylor! Who’s Zin Taylor?’
6 mins
Words: 1323
Read Time: 6 mins
Read Time: 6 mins
House Guests on the Lake
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‘Getting to know you, getting to know all about you…’ - Rodgers and Hammerstein
5 mins
Words: 1169
Read Time: 5 mins
Read Time: 5 mins
Code Name: Queencobra
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‘Fate loves the fearless.’ - James Russell Lowell
12 mins
Words: 2493
Read Time: 12 mins
Read Time: 12 mins
Aberrant Apparent
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‘It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.’ - Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 mins
Words: 710
Read Time: 3 mins
Read Time: 3 mins
Incommunicado in Womyoonadado
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‘One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.’ - André Gide
10 mins
Words: 2129
Read Time: 10 mins
Read Time: 10 mins