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Issue 72: December 2025

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In This Issue
Melissa Balmain: Sense And Sensitivity
Martin Parker: For Pole Dancing Fifi At Fifty
Susan McLean: Ballade Of Bygone Fashions
Harry Ricketts: Austenalia
Will Ingrams: A Visit To The National Portrait Gallery
INTERVAL ONE: From Christmas Beer To Christmas Bear
Bruce McGuffin: Those Lowdown AM Blues
David Blumenfeld: Ugh! 6 A.M. Pushups.
Philip Kitcher: Loch Ness Bulletin
Matthew Sumner: The Lion's Roar
Paul Burgess: Trickle
Julia Griffin: Angelomaly
INTERVAL TWO: From Casting To Cat
Steven Kent: Growing Pains
Simon MacCulloch: Immortal In Rhyme
Tim Taylor: Brian The Quetzalcoatlus
Tom Vaughan: Choice
Tony Dawson: A Case Of Nominative Determinism?
Michael Swan: Apophthegm
INTERVAL THREE: A Swarm Of Eights
Michael Calvert: What's Lost
D. A. Prince: Tourists
Alan Millichip: A Superabundant Autumn
Mike Mesterton-Gibbons: Bus Frustration
Jake Murel: Monster Mash
Tony Peyser: News Stand Epiphany
INTERVAL FOUR: Ars Scribendi
Tracy Davidson: An Appointment Wih A Personal Shopper
Royal W. Rhodes: Fat Bear Week
Julie Steiner: International Incident
Pat D'Amico: True Travel Tale
Jonathan Humble: The Dream Of A Blind Mole-Rat Draught Excluder
Peter Emery: Fool On One Knee
Shawn M. Klimek: Where Angels Dance
Aaron Nydegger: Dads And Dancing Dresses
Cinderella Villanelle: Joanna Bird
Martin Briggs: Festive Board
Competition 71: Statuesque Stanzas
Competition 72: Crabbed Lines