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AI is not helping your ideas

“That picture you painted doesn’t look like the bay of Naples even though it’s called ‘The Bay of Naples’, bro!” says an AI zealot.“You got the prompt wrong. Ask your LLM to make a painting in the style of Cezanne!”, they continue.
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Tim Smith

Art, Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Opinion

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Christmas in Sam’s Restaurant

“We’ve cleaned, Chef”, she snapped back. She knew what he was feeling because she was feeling it too. Christmas week and she was already planning where to work next. My dear reader, it was Christmas week and as usual Carl, the Chef-Patron was in a tumultuously bad mood. The restaurant had been decked with all
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Tim Smith

Christmas, Food, Refugees, Short Stories, Xmas

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A Christmas Hope

Christmas Eve had come at last, and the house was festooned with decorations. Granny Bacon had called it ‘gaudy’ when she came to visit. Sean was fairly sure that this meant it was completely bloody brilliant. Part 1 It was two weeks before Christmas Eve, and there was no Mum to be seen or felt
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Noel Murphy

Christmas, Family, Short Stories, Xmas

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McDonald-Sayer Turns Away From His Dream

“If I’d wanted revolutions, I would have hired a Cuban,” he had joked, weakly.
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Noel Murphy

Christmas, Unfinished Novels, Xmas

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O’Keefe and the Maltese

He’d lay out a solution using his own code. I’d remind myself never to wrong-side him. Never.
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Noel Murphy

Microfiction, Short Stories

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Revenger’s Tales – John and Gordon

Revenge makes you right and wrong simultaneously. Something tells you that what you want to do is wrong but by doing it, by completing their Revengers’ Tale, the world will be set right.
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Noel Murphy

Revengers Tales, Short Stories

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The Rimmingtons

No one close by heard the single gunshot crashing from the wardroom. No one was there to soften the blow as Glyde’s badly damaged head slammed into the table.
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Tim Smith

Family, Fun, Microfiction, Short Stories

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Don’t call him Satan

You snake! You dog! You dirty snitch. My brother’s got 15 years in prison because of you…
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Noel Murphy

Short Stories, Stories, Violence

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Sports: for People Who Hate Sports

Any Winter Sport is immensely entertaining because it will show you people far more wealthy than you will ever be injuring themselves badly.
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Noel Murphy

Fun, Humour, Sport

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The Wallington Shocker

“You would like to know as much about the creature who pulled the triggers, tied the knots, hammered the nails and wielded the knife. I imagine that you have your own theories on the pairings of the civilians, the note, the relationship between the eight and the reason for choosing Wallington above all other villages.
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Noel Murphy

Microfiction, Short Stories

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The Poet’s Wife Writes

I became intensely jealous about exactly what was happening during those lunches.
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Noel Murphy

Microfiction, Short Stories

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‘Dapper’ Dale’s death

Dale had done this to him. Threat after threat sandwiched by false friendship, even sympathy. Dale played with him until Ted finally broke.
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Noel Murphy

Microfiction, Short Stories

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Mountain Pressure

Ups and downs and winter birds singing around them. The pine trees’ scent, the wind in the needles above and around them.
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Noel Murphy

Family, Love, Microfiction, Short Stories

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Lucy’s days

The noodles would slip down and fill his stomach, taking away the humiliation he felt at being in debt to his own daughter.
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Tim Smith

Family, Love, Microfiction, Short Stories

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It Comes to Some of Us in the End

Tom ‘Bopper’ Keys was returned unto the earthly Earth. That much was certain.
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Noel Murphy

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