Biography

How Could I Be So Stupid

Dear diary...just had to write this reminder to myself to not be foolish again. It all started on Friday 12th April 2024. Me and my partner began our...

Upcoming Self-Published Collection: In This Village

Hi all! So, I've been writing here since 2018, when I was 18 years old. I vividly remember picking up a copy of Salems' Lot by Stephen King earlier...

80,s suburban living room

We were the first family in the street to get a video recorder. Dad knew someone in the dr who appreciation society who got me copies of old episodes...
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Ralph Monkton Lives!

Okay, a bit of cheek, as in not being quite a nonce word, but I may be forgiven for inventing a nonce character, who has at times since come in handy. This is a (mostly) a true story, the facts have only been changed to enhance poetic licence.
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Story of the week

The End - part 2

I am on my final countdown- 6 weeks or less, although I am still feeling pretty good. Two weeks ago I went to the hospital for an MRI scan - and they...

A Forest

The forest was our playground, trees shutting out the sun for the most part , a hidden wild garden for feral children , a secret Eden far from home...
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Pick of the Month

Two kinds of crying : 15th February 2024

Leaving the road for the slick, clay-swallowed gravel of the footpath, newly scalped of its sodden, rot smelling dark brown felt of last year's...
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A Christmas Rainbow

There was a rainbow monday afternoon there was a rain shower I went outside and there it was. I was surprised I'd only vaguely hoped. The full...
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Happy Christmas

Happy Christmas and Happy New Year to you all. Nothing new to report on my cancer journey - but I thought you might like to read this poem that...
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