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    The Plain Account

    Published by

    Bob Lynn

    on

    07/08/2026

    | Reading time:

    8–11 minutes
    The Plain Account

    The dead cannot lie. The living will. She reads what is there. London, 1630.

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    The Rest Is Not Yours

    Published by

    Bob Lynn

    on

    06/08/2026

    | Reading time:

    1–2 minutes
    The Rest Is Not Yours

    Two women. One allotment. One tasted for death. The other can’t stop worrying. Between them, a bag of marrows.

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    The Ground Holds

    Published by

    Bob Lynn

    on

    05/08/2026

    | Reading time:

    1–2 minutes
    The Ground Holds

    A gravedigger. The August clay. Five words, spoken once, and the afternoon holds.

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    Held in Store

    Published by

    Bob Lynn

    on

    04/08/2026

    | Reading time:

    6–9 minutes
    Held in Store

    He painted every name. Never went. On the last day of peace, he tells a stranger why that was enough.

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    Visibility Good

    Published by

    Bob Lynn

    on

    03/08/2026

    | Reading time:

    1–2 minutes
    Visibility Good

    She cannot see what the dark holds. She lowers the gate anyway. Visibility good.

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    A Licence to the Wind

    Published by

    Bob Lynn

    on

    02/08/2026

    | Reading time:

    1–2 minutes
    A Licence to the Wind

    A taut, contained 1968 duel between a radical playwright and a former censor over freedom’s crushing price.

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    The Last Hands Upon the Stone

    Published by

    Bob Lynn

    on

    01/08/2026

    | Reading time:

    10–15 minutes
    The Last Hands Upon the Stone

    Amidst molten lead, a 1933 Fleet Street typesetter reveals the dangerous, unseen mastery guarding the daily printed word.

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    The Scribe and the Shadow

    Published by

    Bob Lynn

    on

    31/07/2026

    | Reading time:

    1–2 minutes
    The Scribe and the Shadow

    An atmospheric Victorian drama where a restless journalist and a weary puppeteer reveal the haunting power of witnessing.

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    The Sum of Indifferent Things

    Published by

    Bob Lynn

    on

    30/07/2026

    | Reading time:

    1–2 minutes
    The Sum of Indifferent Things

    An unheralded scorer records the 1973 Women’s Cricket World Cup, proving that meaning is never fated, only meticulously forged.

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    Between Stations

    Published by

    Bob Lynn

    on

    29/07/2026

    | Reading time:

    15–22 minutes
    Between Stations

    Trapped on a stalled Tube train, an aspirational stylist and a death cleaner dissect curated lives and raw mortality.

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