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			<title>Excelsior! The Authorship of Stan &amp;lsquo;The Man&amp;rsquo; Lee</title>
			<description>An essay arguing the case for the authorship status of Stan Lee.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/1196644/</link>
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			<title>Demonstrations of Humanity</title>
			<description>A modern day Robin Hood story.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/1196633/</link>
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			<title>The Other Side of the Fence</title>
			<description>An old man returns home to the scene of a crime from his youth.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/1196629/</link>
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			<title>13 Villainesque</title>
			<description>Using the prompt '13' I wrote a thirteen line villanelle that for me summarises the political and socio-economic climate of the UK at this moment in time and suggests a desirable outcome.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/1196626/</link>
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			<title>Bad Friday</title>
			<description>Mary asks the children to pop out on an adventure to Camp Crystal Lake where they meet a strange masked person named Jason... and all musical hell breaks loose.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/1196624/</link>
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			<title>The Wretched Treachery of Benjamin Crumm</title>
			<description>Historical Fiction piece dealing with 'The Peasants' Revolt' of 1381 (English History)</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/1196621/</link>
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			<title>Two Legged Intentions: Anthropomorphic Allegory and Red Threat Rhetoric</title>
			<description>First Year University Assignment- BA Professional Writing</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/1196617/</link>
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			<title>Nature Boy: Chapter Six</title>
			<description>Paul is forced to face his fears.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/869526/</link>
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			<title>Nature Boy: Chapter Five</title>
			<description>The wisdom of his elders has mixed results for Paul during a particularly bad day at school.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/869525/</link>
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			<title>Nature Boy: Chapter Four</title>
			<description>In which we meet Paul's family and consider the implications of magically repaired eyesight and future meetings with a Druid.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/869506/</link>
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			<title>Nature Boy: Chapter Three</title>
			<description>Having woken in the woods at night, Paul begins to see things differently.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/869490/</link>
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			<title>Nature Boy: Chapter Two</title>
			<description>An escape from a dangerous situation leads Paul to Wythchthorne Woods where not everything is as it seems. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/869489/</link>
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			<title>Nature Boy: Chapter One</title>
			<description>Moving 300 miles from north east to south west England and attending school for the first time seem like the worst ideas in the world to Paul.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/869483/</link>
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			<title>Nature Boy</title>
			<description>An epic fantasy fiction story about a bullied boy in a new high school, his unusual family, an ancient woodland, a Druid, a tree wraith and their many adventures in the Otherworld and this.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/869217/</link>
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			<title>Carol's Christmas</title>
			<description>A festive ghost story based on the Dicken's classic</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/837214/</link>
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			<title>Don't be Afraid</title>
			<description>An attempt to simplify politics and economics (in their current form) and causal factors in the acceptance of the cancerous, self-perpetuating order that qualifies their validity.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/814975/</link>
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			<title>House of Common Criminals</title>
			<description>For the UK 99%</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/814696/</link>
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			<title>Chapter Five and Epilogue</title>
			<description>The Invaders and the Doctor come to a compromise that seems to suit the vast majority of both species.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/810576/</link>
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			<title>Chapter Four</title>
			<description>The Doctor takes on the sisterhood</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/810262/</link>
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			<title>Chapter Three</title>
			<description>A frustrating time for Rory</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/810261/</link>
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			<title>Chapter Two</title>
			<description>On board the mother ship</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/810260/</link>
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			<title>Chapter One</title>
			<description>Earth 2130 AD An alien invasion seems likely.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/810256/</link>
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			<title>Dr Who: Invasion of the Alien Amazonian Race</title>
			<description>An erotic parody of the popular British TV series</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/810254/</link>
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			<title>99 to 1</title>
			<description>Whose side are you on?</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/806454/</link>
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			<title>Plato's Cave</title>
			<description>Don't be afraid of the light!</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/806453/</link>
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			<title>My God...</title>
			<description>My God&amp;hellip;&amp;hellip;Is the earth at your feet and the sun in the skyThe wind on your face and the turn of the tidesMy God does not despise you nor deny you your desires.You are neither travesty nor tragedy in Nature&amp;rsquo;s loving eyes.You are but a child crucified by men of golden cloth..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/794422/</link>
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			<title>Forever and For Always</title>
			<description>A chiller romance short, rated 'mature' due to brief profanity which is used to threaten violence and murder to a vulnerable person.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/789141/</link>
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			<title>The Story of Sorry Samuel</title>
			<description>A campfire tale I created during a camping trip to Cramond Island, a tidle isle close to Edinburgh, Scotland</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/786167/</link>
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			<title>Hole in the Wall</title>
			<description>The future of British politics? Political satire.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/711586/</link>
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			<title>To the Top of Toll's World</title>
			<description>Chapter Six: To the Top of Toll&amp;rsquo;s World&amp;lsquo;&amp;hellip;you just stand on the platform and pull the rope on top to lift you up. It&amp;rsquo;s easy!&amp;rsquo;Toll looked at the station master as if he hoped the man was joking. He was finding it difficult to believe that he had sacrificed his hat, g..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/710273/</link>
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			<title>On the Road to Fame and Fortune</title>
			<description>Chapter Five: On the Road to Fame and FortuneLibrium was by far the loudest and brightest of the three tiered Magi-Nations. Sandwiched between Larm below and Luminol above it boasted the most of its presence and shone like a star in a blanket of night. Safe within a transparent plastic dome built ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/709553/</link>
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			<title>A Vengeful Mage and a One-Sided Station Master</title>
			<description>Chapter Four: A Vengeful Mage and&amp;nbsp;a One-Sided&amp;nbsp;Station MasterToll cringed as his father&amp;rsquo;s mystical incantations pulled him inside of their home and slammed the door firmly closed behind him. The luminescent orb, that the wiry grey haired man held, responded to his whims of physica..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/708575/</link>
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			<title>Meanwhile, a world away</title>
			<description>In this chapter we are introduced to the Quicksilver family of Librium</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/708398/</link>
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			<title>In the City of Archevis</title>
			<description>Chapter Two: In the City Of ArchevisThe discarded technological inventions, mystical creations and industrial leftovers that had fallen from Librium and Luminol had, over the course of centuries, accumulated at the centre point of the lowest country to create the immense mound of debris known as..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/702840/</link>
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			<title>Watching the End of the World</title>
			<description>The InklingsChapter One: Watching the End of the WorldToll, &amp;lsquo;the bird boy with the long dark hair&amp;rsquo; was attired almost entirely in thick fur coverings. The boy was stood upon marshy wasteland facing the dawn that descended from the upper eastern horizon, his legs and body smothered ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/702763/</link>
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			<title>The Inklings</title>
			<description>The Inklings of lowly Larm must journey through the upper Magi-Nations of Librium and Luminol in order to save their country and make it ink on the page of creation.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/702762/</link>
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			<title>Choosing Life</title>
			<description>Animal rights lyrics with a poetic outro that I wrote many moons ago, posted here for a contest</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/699634/</link>
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			<title>You Animals!</title>
			<description>You animals that live taller than treesWho put yourself above all of weBut still cannot seeNot clearlyOut of touch with the synchronicityOf being part of an entityThat nurtures and sustains us allWhile we live in cagesAnd pensOn FarmsAnd FactoriesIn FieldsWith FencesAnd displayed in shop windows(Dis..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/699627/</link>
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			<title>Finding Mnemonic: An Unforgettable Post Graduate Story </title>
			<description>A re-write of Finding Nemo in relation to the experience of University.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/694399/</link>
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			<title>Apocalypse Deficit Disorder: The Digital Plague</title>
			<description>The story of what has occured a year after December 21st 2012 became known as 'The Day That Nothing Happened'</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/689010/</link>
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			<title>Neolithic Neighbours</title>
			<description>An evolutionary love story</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/682118/</link>
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			<title>Who Wants to Play The Big Game of One Million Stories? </title>
			<description>From Prompt: 'The Big Game'</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/677955/</link>
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			<title>After Birth</title>
			<description>Based on a true story from my life.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/675708/</link>
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			<title>Adam's Apple</title>
			<description>52 stories in a year prompt #5 Taking a Stand </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/674451/</link>
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			<title>Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus</title>
			<description>52 short stories in a year challenge #4. From prompt, 'out of the blue'</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/672302/</link>
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			<title>Perpetuation (52 stories in a year #3)</title>
			<description>From prompt: 'Sons and Daughters'</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/667178/</link>
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			<title>A Way With Words</title>
			<description>A story about the power of persuasion, suggestion and the underworld that lives off society without being part of it. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/665351/</link>
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			<title>A Day in the Life of a Maniac</title>
			<description>We're all late for a very impotent date</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/664806/</link>
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			<title>Death of a Patriarch (52 stories ina year #2)</title>
			<description>52 short stories challenge Prompt #2: 'Strange Rain'</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/663316/</link>
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			<title>Precious</title>
			<description>In times and places of deprivation the value of a thing is defined in relation to need. 
In times and places of prosperity the value of a thing is defined in relation to desire.
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/spence/661644/</link>
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