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Climate of Truth

April 2, 2021 ~ Pam Swanborough ~ Leave a comment

With a deft touch of her keypad, she started the recording. “Name, number?” It was the same broad they always sent - a studious, serious one from the City with so many letters after her name I got dizzy reading her ID.

The Cup of Kindness

April 2, 2021 ~ Pam Swanborough ~ Leave a comment

The last of the trees, the luxuriant undergrowth, fell away, and the great dome of the sky opened around them...

Death Is a Woman

February 21, 2021 ~ Pam Swanborough ~ Leave a comment

With hands outstretched, soft like butter to the touch and with all the tender love and care only a woman knows how to give, there is nothing quite like Death’s embrace.

I Was a Plastic Bag

February 21, 2021 ~ Pam Swanborough ~ 13 Comments

Everything breaks eventually, except plastic. I was a plastic bag...

No Feather Bed

February 21, 2021February 21, 2021 ~ Pam Swanborough ~ Leave a comment

Angel of The North, you stand awake.

Event Forty-Four

January 21, 2021January 21, 2021 ~ Pam Swanborough ~ Leave a comment

Twelve years, nine months and four days since the beginning, Event Zero. Five days since the end of the last event ...

Leaves

December 8, 2020December 8, 2020 ~ Pam Swanborough ~ Leave a comment

Summer came late that year, but when it arrived it was a wonder. The garden grew like a jungle...

Mouse and Owl

November 16, 2020November 16, 2020 ~ Pam Swanborough ~ Leave a comment

A gacier dies when it can't move anymore.

Lullaby

November 16, 2020November 16, 2020 ~ Pam Swanborough ~ Leave a comment

‘Hello, moon,’ she murmured into the sky where the moon cut a sharp silhouette against the morning’s fading grey.

The Last Hole

November 16, 2020 ~ Pam Swanborough ~ Leave a comment

It was unseasonably hot for October. At least it was dry, the golfers agreed. That was the important thing...

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