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God-fearing by Dorothy Neagle

The heat hums. Grasshoppers click from stem to stem. In a few days, a tractor will cut and bale hay in the distance...

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Girl in the Doorway by Christopher Parent

“I have a dream that one day … little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls

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Father by Liane U’Prichard

Tonight I rewatch a video my son posted some time ago, of him teaching his five year old to weave on a pretty complicated loom. The patient

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Methylation by Rod Madocks

My Dad gave me a photo of himself to take with me as I set off at the age of seven to my tough Rhodesian boarding school.

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The Name Puzzle by Linda Petrucelli

Mother liked to pretend that my name was a family decision. I was the third child born to Donato and Carmella Petruccelli of Davenport, Iowa

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Beginnings by Heather Gatley

The writer and her early affinity to words, the duality of being Welsh and English, the seeds of her nomadic existence...

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For The Love Of Dogs by Samuel Dodson

Our house was forever alive with animal instinct. We grew up surrounded by a veritable menagerie, some more memorable than others...

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The Fox and the Scars by Amy Wall

As soon as I turned eighteen, I walked myself down to the nearest tattoo parlour and had a small drawing of a fox printed just below my...

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Marigolds by Heather Gatley

I went to school in the quaint time at the end of the 1960s, before political correctness and niceties about equality...

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Disaster Girl by Auriel Roe

Beleagured by a myriad of food allergies and epic cookery failures in Home Economics, the author finally finds redemption in a sponge.

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