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Category: History

The Politician (Story by Risa Peris)

August 5, 2020 Brian Coyle Leave a comment

You see the thing about Yuri was that he was not a high-ranking or particularly effective KGB officer. Back in…

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Posted in: Fiction, History, Political

The Books (Story by Risa Peris)

July 10, 2020 Brian Coyle Leave a comment

  “Sergei…I was able to make some thin soup out of the two potatoes and one carrot I scavenged for.…

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Posted in: Fiction, History

Blue (Story by Risa Peris)

May 21, 2020 Brian Coyle Leave a comment

I was painted blue. War time blue. I was like all my Pictish clan. We were to storm Hadrian’s Wall.…

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Posted in: Adventure, Fiction, History, Religion

Deep Shrug (Story by Risa Peris)

May 19, 2020 Brian Coyle Leave a comment

I was quite alone on the train. A nurse in pale gray heading for South England. I was called on…

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Posted in: Fiction, History, Political

The Body (Story by Risa Peris)

March 17, 2020 periswriter Leave a comment

I had never seen a body hacked to pieces. I approached stealthily. Like a cat about to pounce on prey.…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction, History, Social Issues

England and the Thunder (Story by Risa Peris)

February 20, 2020 Brian Coyle Leave a comment

What do you do when you are hungry? You seek. The overeater goes to the grocery store or restaurant. The…

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Posted in: Dark Humour, Fiction, History

An Angel (Story by Risa Peris)

February 7, 2020 Brian Coyle Leave a comment

It was a thin soup with some kind of strange looking dumplings in it. Angelino was expecting something unctuous and…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction, History, Religion
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Civil War (bp coyle)

September 4, 2019 coylewriter Leave a comment

‘The worst kind of war is a civil war,’ Granny constantly told us when we were young. She had lived…

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Posted in: Fiction, History

The Weight (Story by Risa Peris)

July 16, 2019 Brian Coyle Leave a comment

Meredith Von Wieth uttered what she thought was a true and innocent statement. “The Palestinian people have rights – to…

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Posted in: Fiction, History, Political, Religion

Head Out of the Sand (Story by Risa Peris)

July 13, 2019 Brian Coyle Leave a comment

The professor was tall with a paunch that looked as if he had stuffed stolen items from a department store…

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Posted in: Fiction, History

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