Strengthened and renovated with a hard-earned face-lift, shadows dance on her struts and spans in the late afternoon light. Iron pieces bolted into shape…

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They don’t want to go to the party. Everything is raw, too raw to celebrate anything, but they make themselves go.

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Lee hasn’t met her father’s latest girlfriend yet. He says this time, it’s the real thing

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Our primal instinct for flight or flight and epic godwit migrations in a story about surviving

FAR AWAY FIELDS in MIR Online

Take the rackety, diesel train with your grandmother one overcast morning, after the rush-hour, when the tickets are cheap

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The day was dusking when they returned from a cheap Cracow city-break which hadn’t gone to plan from the start

BY-STANDER in THE WORD FACTORY

The wisdom of crows and the value of sunglasses

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The archaeologists dug the chocolate soil of your cellar floor, shifted the rubble of bricks and stones, sifted the sandy fill and discovered the sherds, stubborn survivors...

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One fine fall morning, after submitting seven online applications, Chuck Trickett showered and shaved, then pulled on a clean, navy polo short and a pair of fresh-pressed khaki chinos. He ...

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