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JPYoung

JPYoung is from AU Australia • 67 y/o

Just One of Those Things
Story
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
5 mins
Words: 1013
Read Time: 5 mins
Big Deal at a Camellia Cotillion
Story
‘Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.’ — Gérard de Nerval
4 mins
Words: 981
Read Time: 4 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
Picnic in Upton Park
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Life is a picnic on a precipice – W.H. Auden
13 mins
Words: 2671
Read Time: 13 mins
A Sporting Fight
Story
‘I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense’. - H. L. Mencken
10 mins
Words: 2073
Read Time: 10 mins
Winter’s Secret Treasure
Story
Treasure means riches.
11 mins
Words: 2267
Read Time: 11 mins
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Snowfire on the Eve of Epiphany
Story
‘You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.’ - Mary Pickford
5 mins
Words: 1027
Read Time: 5 mins
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Follow the North Star to Happiness
Story
Enter your world of dreams…for the price of a ticket…
10 mins
Words: 2018
Read Time: 10 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
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
The Yellow Footsteps
Poem
Initium Semper Fidelis
1 min
Words: 212
Read Time: 1 min
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