Thought I would have a go at doing a hero saving the world from evil type thing, this is the prologue.
The story is set as you can probably figure out during the conflict with Iraq. I have had people having a go at me saying its all 'pro-American'. Well without giving too much away its not, the yanks do save the day but they are also the instigators of the trouble.

Have you ever thought about what it's like to be in a persistent vegetative state?

David Blunkett's citizen test, tested out!

In the long run, impatience gets you nowhere.

An extremely thought inspiring essay through which we learn that our preconceived ideas on life can be changed by one simple and brief occurrence.

I have found great spiritual insight and learning through these well-researched and thought provoking articles - this includes the three preceding articles. They navigate the breadth of human experience as one travels life’s path.

Michael D. Jackson
Author

People want and die for it. What is it?

This is the first thing I have written for UK Authors. The rest of my writing on here is a few months or even a few years old. If I get good feedback about this story I will write and post part 2. I hope you enjoy it. Puncuation may be poor its not a strong point of mine but I am working on it.

A Kerouacian road-trip into the Midlands leads a single father to reconciliation with his son and his history.

Based, I fear, on true events.

My first post here (in fact my first post anywhere!) - its an idea I have been harbouring for a long time now, but have never bothered to get down on paper let alone make it public. Glad to have any feedback - good or bad. But I do hope there's enough here for you to enjoy.

It concerns the basic idea that the reason we have not heard from other intelligent life, lies closer to home than we might expect. Very simple research accompanied the writing of this - if I re-write it will be improved with investment in the time allocated to this - however the basic scientific principles are reasonably sound.

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Of plumbing and turnip soup.

Dreams come true.

Rose decides to walk out of her monotonous, unfulfilling life.

An inexperienced pilot is lost above the clouds. To make matters worse, he has technical problems and is almost out of fuel.

Babysitting for your girlfriend can be difficult when the children still miss their father...

A man decides that the world of work is not for him (resubmitted / no changes)

A coat-hanger poem.

Im not quite sure what this is and I wrote it! What do you think?

A short piece that is intended to be partly humorous, partly serious showing the gap between an older generation and the modern world even in a place that seems unchanging.

It all starts with the word sieve

Hi to everyone.

For my first submission I have chosen a piece I wrote just over two years ago. it was written as an exercise in dialogue and being a lazy writer I haven't bothered to edit beyond the very first draft. Thanks for reading!

Working in a sweat shop had never seemed as much fun...

A ten minute monologue, set in a hospital radio studio on Christmas Eve...

Jobe's life told only through Wednesdays

Wednesday's according to Jobe

Possibly a prequel to 'Cucumber'.

A jilted fiancée invites her ex over for a meal. When will he finally got her out of his system? Dialogue only.

Catherine was looking forward to the half-term break....

A quick story about the type of friend we have all had at some stage in life.

In remembrance

Where there is a will...

Are you frightened of change? There is a saying ‘a leopard can never change its spots’. This article opens the theory to interpretation arguing that the power to change is within our grasp through self-consciousness.

I have been window shopping for lampshades. This happens a lot these days. I don’t know why, it’s just a habit.

This morning I read through the entire ‘genera’ section of the jobs bit of the Guardian society and picked out a number of potential jobs, which seemed vaguely suited to my skills and experience.

Thought it deserved two chapters being put up for shooting at. The strange deaths start here so it might be a bit more exciting. Any constructive comments please.

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When God created men, he didn't consider explosives!!

Which is best -- a four-legged friend or a full stomach?

Not sure what this is going to be when it grows up but I would like constructive comments on it so that I can have some idea of whether I should carry on with it.

Opps...whatever would one do without the old ways?

Its fun, its short, it's predictable but it's mine and I like it :)

I'm writing quite a few "Chapter One's" at the moment...not sure they'll ever get finished!

This is the fictional account of a scientist conducting an innovative experiment into revolutionary internet technology - he has developed a web-based system in which the hyperlinks jump to web-pages not just on physically separate computers but also to those separated in time (specifically in the future). During the experiment the contents of a future website inform him that he will be killed in a freak accident some time in the day after the experiment. His mark on the scientific world is made, but will he be a martyr to his technological breakthrough? Is it inevitable that the tragic events will come to pass? Is there anything he can do to stay alive? What will he do?

(If I don't finish it, we'll never know!)

This is first draft material only, btw.
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Spooky goings-on in the changing rooms at school...


(This is the fifth and final chapter of a novel for children 10-12yrs. I posted the first chapter several weeks ago.)

I wrote this story in response to a friends admission that he longed to have the reverse operation to that portrayed in the story. Strange but true. He wanted to be attached at the chest to his twin brother. Jeff is now undergoing councelling at the Lonely Twin Assocation in Cardiff.

The reckoning.

I wrote this, my first (older) children's story, a while ago, and have edited it according to some of the advice I have received. I hope it works.

A survey of a doomed life.

Mystery and romance came into Abby’s lonely life when she moved from their Pittsburg home into her great grandfather’s seaside mansion.

To end it all or not? When do you act for yourself and not consider others?

May disturb

I recently gave up writing for Lent, or until I started to have some decent ideas again. My Coarse Boating series had gone totally stale and was driving me mad- I was trying to arrange the episodes into a book length piece that I could submit for submission for publication and the harder I tried the worse it got. It ended up with me delelting a lot of the material I was not happy with, until even that stopped working properly for me. To cheer myself up I dug out an old piece.