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Books/boardgames/RPG GM Level 14 dad / Ex(?)-goth Digital scribbler / no AI in my work No DMs here, sorry. See my art here: https://www.instagram.com/paul_scribbles/ Support your local hardware shop 👍 Midlands, UK

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Paul @spookshow71.bsky.social · Nov 9

Running a tiny hardware shop in this day and age is always going to be a tale of ups and downs - but today...

Older chap and small lad looking in the window. 'This,' says the chap with something approaching joy and reverence, 'this is the magic shop.'

I am officially a wizard 🙂

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Paul @spookshow71.bsky.social · 3h

'the bloke at (national fixings company) told me what I needed was a good old fashioned ironmongers'

Customer: sorted ✔️

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Paul @spookshow71.bsky.social · 3h

It was just so odd. Nobody about, no cars, just random apple out of nowhere!

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Paul @spookshow71.bsky.social · 4h

No idea. A small mystery in the grand scheme of things, and likely soon forgotten.

Not by be, though.

🙂

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Paul @spookshow71.bsky.social · 4h

I caught up. The apple lay there, stalled, beneath the edge of the kerb and the van tyre, and I wondered where on earth it had come from. All that mad dashing, and brought to this.

It had gone the next day, of course. Once the van moved, did it continue its journey later?

Did it go on?

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Paul @spookshow71.bsky.social · 4h

It just kept going, well ahead of me now, careering wildly over grates, litter, leaves. Carefree. Unencumbered by thoughts of its own mortality.

Unstoppable.

Until, of course, it did. Brought up short by that most ordinary of things, the tyres of a white van, parked just up from the church.

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Paul @spookshow71.bsky.social · 4h

Out of nowhere (I looked back up the hill for hints of its origins) an apple, just bounding by me, picking up speed. It crossed a drain, began to sprint near the second pub, and then rolled without even looking past a junction where it could've met a grisly end.

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Paul @spookshow71.bsky.social · 4h

At first I thought it was a rat, or more likely a squirrel from the speed and the bouncing It was quick, and oddly silent. No cars for at least a few minutes. It raced past me in the gutter, not a creature at all. Something odder.

It was an apple.

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Paul @spookshow71.bsky.social · 4h

Walking to work, this time last week:

There's a longish downward road that's been there forever, houses up either side, a view beyond them on the west over the valley.

About a third of the way down, just above the first of the two pubs, less cars than usual for 0820, when movement catches my eye

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Paul @spookshow71.bsky.social · 17h

I got given a copy when I was 10.

An eye-opener, for sure!

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Paul @spookshow71.bsky.social · 19h

I was 47 when I started trying to learn to draw, had never done it before. That'd be 7 years ago this month. I love it 🙂

Paul @spookshow71.bsky.social · 1d

Cheers! I do all my work digitally - just sketched it out on the iPad, then coloured it later.

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