I had six different colours of card. So I made six different tiny tales.
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Pocket Tales #16: Tales From The Sea
Carousel
The circus was washed away in a storm. Now the horses only turn with the tides.
Clowns
But at least the clowns no longer laugh.
Vents
Everyone liked the word ‘vents’
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Pocket Tales #17: Tales From The Beach
Instead of buckets, paper bags, But the spades were still plastic.
View From Above
You cannot escape the watchful drones
Beak
The gulls were not amused
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Pocket Tales #18: Tales From The Fields
In the long grass
the cat
dreams it was a lion
Barrows
Waves of earth
two thousand years old
full of bones older still
Dandelions
They float
They are lighter than air
Slow Worm
It snakes, despite itself
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Pocket Tales #19: Tales From The Woods
From above everything looks green.
But when you’re in it, it’s brown in every direction
The Walls In The Woods
Everyone loves the walls in the woods
Old boundaries between forgotten kingdoms
Identities and purposes no longer known
Bole
A beautiful word for a beautiful a thing
Above/Below
There is no difference
between the above and below
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Pocket Tales #20: Tales From Mars
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Pocket Tales #21: Tales From The Candle Flame
Look into me
and think
and wish
and wait
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Notes:
1. Tales From The Sea was written between the 16th and the 19th of June, 2023 (mainly due to drawing all those jellyfish)
2. Tales From The Beach was written on August 3rd, 2023
3. And the other four were written on September 4th, 2023
4. Previous Pocket Tales can be found here: #1-#4, #5-#9, #10-#12, #13-#15
5. If you want to chart their steady decline
