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Stairs

(8 stories)

So much vodka
She is feeling too hot
She stares at the stairs
Considering her lot
Her legs have gone
And she's losing the plot
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Stairs - an ureliable measure of a civilisation. The lack of superior technology does not indicate an unsophisticated species #130story

Hand-in-hand
We leave our chairs
And head to the stairs
I hold you close
And ignore the stares
What do they think?
Who cares?
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1988:
the year children quaked in bed.
Daleks could do stairs.

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At night, Sarah wrote down story ideas and hid them under the stairs. In the morning the first line was written. Only she knew #130story

After the Pearly Gates issued me with my ticket to hell, I spot the fire escape. I sneak over and climb the stairway to heaven #130story

Heavy-limbed, she climbed the stairs to the top of the tower; ringing metal, screams and the beat of dragons' wings in her ears. #130story

When the bed wouldn't go up the stairs
Boy did he feel dumb
He should have used a tape measure
And not relied on the rule of thumb
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