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S410: BING
There was a small black cat on the table. It could only have been a few months old. Its body was growing but its head was still kittenish and her paws still seemed a little large for her body. The children had named the cats, so this one was Bing. The other ginger kitten was Mr Tumble, which had been shortened to Tum. Bing pushed at a pen on the table until half of it was over the edge. All right gents, I’ve got an idea. The pen fell and skittered across the floor. The noise scared the cat an...
S410: BING
There was a small black cat on the table. It could only have been a few months old. Its body was growing but its head was still kittenish and her paws still seemed a little large for her body. The children had named the cats, so this one was Bing. The other ginger kitten was Mr Tumble, which had been shortened to Tum. Bing pushed at a pen on the table until half of it was over the edge. All right gents, I’ve got an idea. The pen fell and skittered across the floor. The noise scared the cat an...
S410: NANOSPIDER
The darkness was going away. Ebbing back to where it came from and from where it would come again. Revealed in the new light was just one thing. A toy. From a distance it looked like a clown doll, but that wouldn’t have been quite accurate. It was a Krusty clown doll. They were rare. Would probably fetch a good price at the souk. Callum decided that the risk was worth it and he slowly engaged his lower pistons. He stretched his mind into the cold parts where they had rested overnight and grad...
S410: NANOSPIDER
The darkness was going away. Ebbing back to where it came from and from where it would come again. Revealed in the new light was just one thing. A toy. From a distance it looked like a clown doll, but that wouldn’t have been quite accurate. It was a Krusty clown doll. They were rare. Would probably fetch a good price at the souk. Callum decided that the risk was worth it and he slowly engaged his lower pistons. He stretched his mind into the cold parts where they had rested overnight and grad...
S410: TWOHATS
I am wearing two hats. A bobble hat and a cap. The bobble hat is a tall red Oddballs hat with a large pompom and the cap is a black open mesh trucker’s cap with Marbella and a picture of a dog surfing on it. The bobble hat means that the trucker’s cap doesn’t sit snugly on my head and often falls off, so I have to bend over and pick it up. I am doing it wrong. I am walking with my feet on the opposite sides. This entails crossing my legs at the thigh so that my right foot is roughly on the li...
S410: TWOHATS
I am wearing two hats. A bobble hat and a cap. The bobble hat is a tall red Oddballs hat with a large pompom and the cap is a black open mesh trucker’s cap with Marbella and a picture of a dog surfing on it. The bobble hat means that the trucker’s cap doesn’t sit snugly on my head and often falls off, so I have to bend over and pick it up. I am doing it wrong. I am walking with my feet on the opposite sides. This entails crossing my legs at the thigh so that my right foot is roughly on the li...
S410: THEWEBBEREXPLODES
A halo of light emerges from the ship, it briefly wreaths the craft in an aura of pure white as if it was being highlighted by a celestial force. As quickly as it happened, the light is retracted back into the ship’s drives and, for a second, it seems as if all has been restored. The mistake has been reversed and the continuity allowed to progress. But then the actual explosion happens. A ball of light grows steadily from where the ship once stood. It grows at such a speed that it overwhelms ...
S410: THEWEBBEREXPLODES
A halo of light emerges from the ship, it briefly wreaths the craft in an aura of pure white as if it was being highlighted by a celestial force. As quickly as it happened, the light is retracted back into the ship’s drives and, for a second, it seems as if all has been restored. The mistake has been reversed and the continuity allowed to progress. But then the actual explosion happens. A ball of light grows steadily from where the ship once stood. It grows at such a speed that it overwhelms ...
S410: CATINATREE
MOAOW My cat is stuck in a tree. It has been for two days now. It’s a spreading Scotts Pine, about 30 metres tall. The cat is just a normal black cat that drools. The garden fence runs alongside the tree and there’s about three metres to the lowest branch from the fence. The cat often walks along that fence and I can guarantee it looks at that tree and thinks, “I bet I can get up there.” To be fair to the cat, it’s right – it can get up there. But running up a tree trunk to a thick branch is ...
S410: CATINATREE
MOAOW My cat is stuck in a tree. It has been for two days now. It’s a spreading Scotts Pine, about 30 metres tall. The cat is just a normal black cat that drools. The garden fence runs alongside the tree and there’s about three metres to the lowest branch from the fence. The cat often walks along that fence and I can guarantee it looks at that tree and thinks, “I bet I can get up there.” To be fair to the cat, it’s right – it can get up there. But running up a tree trunk to a thick branch is ...
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