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Cheech Marin

Bounteous - Substantial

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Fantastic - Marvelous

Strong coffee please. I just heard of the sad passing of the German actor, Bruno Ganz. Such a superb actor.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/downfall-actor-bruno-ganz-dies-at-77-1187453

Peppermint

The best tea or the worst coffee?

Happy - Yesteryear

Still no takers?
Okay then:

I can be a long Queue or a short Queue.

On paper I am five (letters) but take away 4 (ueue) I remain the same. Q!

Who's next?

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Freddie Highmore is a brilliant actor.

Taranto. January 17 th , 1943   Maria stood on the quayside and watched the ship slowly disappearing into the distance, unaware of the approaching danger. Suddenly, her superior officer, Oberstabsarzt Bernhardt Ritter, grabbed her arm. “Come on,” he said as he pulled her urgently towards the small Kübelwagen standing silently behind them. “What?” she said, puzzled but then,...

Added 16 Feb 2019 | Category Drama | Votes 3 | Avg Score 5 | Views 345 | 4 Comments

As I lay on the thick straw mattress, sleep would not come. I listened to the sounds about me, the creaking of the timbers of the great hall, the faint sounds, beyond our chamber, of the soldiers sleeping and guards moving about as they changed watch. I could hear sounds in the forest outside, birds fluttering between the trees and animals scurrying through the undergrowth but mostly I...

Added 12 Feb 2019 | Category Fantasy | Votes 3 | Avg Score 5 | Views 385 | 3 Comments

The Mediterranean. January 17 th , 1943 As the setting sun began to dip below the horizon, SS Aegean Sea reduced her engine revolutions to slow. The frothing, white water that had hitherto washed along her flanks disappeared as her speed reduced to almost a standstill. Captain Konstantinos Theodopolis opened his bible and read.   “ The Lord is my shepherd, there is nothing I...

Added 02 Feb 2019 | Category Drama | Votes 5 | Avg Score 5 | Views 903 | 6 Comments

“They're going to hate me!” “What? Why” “Well, look at them out there. Thousands of people. I haven't entertained thousands of people in my life. Okay,okay. So I sang for a few people in clubs and bars. They were out for a good time and I just happened to be their entertainment for half an hour but these people...” “Yes, these people... These people who paid good money just to hear you...

Added 26 Jan 2019 | Category Micro Fiction | Votes 13 | Avg Score 5 | Views 316 | 17 Comments

It was cold, so cold, as the sun began to rise in the east, casting the first rays of warmth across the rolling hills. The mist was lying in the valleys and as I rode slowly along the twisting, rutted road weird shapes seemed to appear suddenly then disappear just as quickly, as the thin mist twisted the beams of light into contorted shadows. In the far distance I could see the dark green...

Added 20 Jan 2019 | Category Fantasy | Votes 7 | Avg Score 5 | Views 477 | 8 Comments

The Mediterranean. January 15 th , 1943 Matron Katarina Langsdorf leaned on the rail at the stern of the old tramp steamer, the coast of Libya having long been lost to her sight by distance and nightfall. Her eyes were moist and red from the tears she had finally allowed to flow, once her fury at being dragged aboard without her sister had subsided. Almost as soon as the ship...

Added 14 Jan 2019 | Category Drama | Votes 7 | Avg Score 5 | Views 867 | 8 Comments

“Ronnie, I got them!” Harriet Mitchell bounded up the steps to her friend's front door waving a nondescript white envelope above her head. “They came this morning!” Veronica Pickles, 'Ronnie' to her friends stood in the open doorway of her Belgravia town house, a puzzled frown on her pretty, young face. “What came this morning, Hattie?” Harriet's face was flushed with excitement as...

Added 17 Dec 2018 | Category Drama | Votes 12 | Avg Score 5 | Views 562 | 16 Comments

Tripoli. January 14 th 1943   Maria took over from Katarina as usual and whilst she did her ward rounds, left Rania to help Ilsa on her ward. After she had checked her last patient for the morning she headed back to her office where, on her desk she found a grey message form from the adjutants office. It was marked, 'Attention Matrons Kaufmann/Langsdorf'. It was a request from...

Added 23 Nov 2018 | Category Drama | Votes 6 | Avg Score 5 | Views 1,214 | 9 Comments

Tripoli. October 24 th , 1942   Katarina and Major Ritter waited patiently whilst Corporal Müller disappeared hurriedly through the door behind him. “Sir,” Katarina began, more thinking aloud than speaking to her superior officer directly. “Do you think that the men who attacked me could be saying that I broke into their house? They are lying if they did.” The Major...

Added 08 Nov 2018 | Category Drama | Votes 5 | Avg Score 5 | Views 544 | 8 Comments

I stand still, silent but for my breath and the sound of my heart beating, the warmth of the sun on my face as I look straight ahead. I look down and place my feet in the exact position I need them and then, standing straight, look sideways over my left shoulder. All is well. My right hand drops to my side I draw an arrow from its quiver by my right hip and fit it to the string of the...

Added 29 Oct 2018 | Category Musings | Votes 9 | Avg Score 5 | Views 865 | 13 Comments

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