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JPYoung

JPYoung is from AU Australia • 68 y/o

Journey to Halloween Past
Poem
Such are the autumn people. Beware of them. — Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
<1 min
Words: 150
Read Time: <1 min
The Funeral Patrol
Story
‘We sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf.’ — George Orwell
24 mins
Words: 4970
Read Time: 24 mins
Familiar Sight from China Light
Story
'You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.' - Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
5 mins
Words: 1026
Read Time: 5 mins
Picnic in Upton Park
Story
Life is a picnic on a precipice – W.H. Auden
13 mins
Words: 2671
Read Time: 13 mins
Commando Existential
Story
‘War (conflict) means fighting (contact), and fighting (contact) means killing (inflicting & incurring casualties)’- Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest (politically incorrect male)
14 mins
Words: 2991
Read Time: 14 mins
Three Girls Go Celtic!
Story
‘Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.’ - Helen Keller
13 mins
Words: 2774
Read Time: 13 mins
A Midsummer Day’s Scheme
Story
‘Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.’ – Henry James
11 mins
Words: 2204
Read Time: 11 mins
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The Daily Dozen vs. the Bad Battalion
Story
‘The soldier is the army. No army is better than its soldiers.’ -General George S. Patton Jr.
11 mins
Words: 2215
Read Time: 11 mins
Fast Date on a September Afternoon
Story
‘Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.’ — Loretta Young
9 mins
Words: 1835
Read Time: 9 mins
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With the Dead in a Dead City
Story
‘Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.’ - Rémy de Gourmont
22 mins
Words: 4590
Read Time: 22 mins
Le Fantôme Fantastique de Phil
Story
‘Ghosts are those memories that are too strong to be forgotten for good, echoing across the years and refusing to be obliterated by time.’ ― Caitlín R. Kiernan
13 mins
Words: 2628
Read Time: 13 mins
Somewhere Beyond the Farthest Star
Story
Nothing’s more precious than a second chance…
11 mins
Words: 2315
Read Time: 11 mins