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A strange weekend but here I am - it'll probably be a short one, I couldn't think of anything to continue the current Mayata situation...

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The familiar whir of the fan and beep signalled the computer was booting as Maddox sat, eyes transfixed to a ream of white text blurring over a black background. From amongst a ball of white fluff, vivid green eyes stared directly at him - he barely blinked. The eyes were Charlene as a kitten, a photo Maddox had taken was loaded as Sandra's desktop background. Still like clockwork, Maddox opened up the graphics program, 3D Studio, via the computer's Start menu. If he did happen to be a clockwork toy, this was the point where he needed winding up again. He sat without a thought for minutes, perhaps paralysed at the myriad of menus, tabs and various other options that now faced him.

He felt a sudden, sharp pang in his lap and once again saw a pair, or was it two pairs, of glowing green eyes staring at him. "Charlene!" he brushed the cat away and cursed her for clawing his legs. Regaining his vision, and his sense of where he was, what had happened, and more importantly for the moment, what he was doing here at his wife's computer, he scanned the bookshelf to the left of the computer... Your Pregnancy Bible, Trace by Patricia Cornwell, Quickstart Guide to 3D Studio: "Ah yes!" he exclaimed, In 24 Hours... he read on; "Damn!" once again exclaiming, this time in a down-hearted rather than excitable tone. He looked at the pregnancy book again, "how many weeks to go now?" he thought. Perhaps it was about time he started to get that room together for the impending arrival of his and Sandra's first child...he reached to the bookcase and grabbed the 3D Studio book, opened to page one and looked at the daunting program onscreen and back again.

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Sandra approached the front-door to see it slightly ajar, "Maddox?" shouting warily as she pushed the door open.

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Apologies for hardly taking the story anywhere, but it's about time I had some sleep!

Oh, and that publishing - one will be a poem contained in a book called Still Life published by United Press, the other is two or three short stories along with a few poems in an anthology of writers from Staffordshire. I have an invite to the book launch in the Autumn and that's almost all I know about that one at the moment. Some of the poems are on my (new-ish) website, the link to which I have attached.