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walking over my grave.
Shamans and shy creatures whisper of danger, Souls without dreams are lost in the shade. Staring at screens in a world full of shadows, A hagstone of...
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The Way We Heard. Love Was All Around Us and so was PTSD.
You know I love you... Andy was back up at the fruit machine. Bright lights of a big win on his face. He was half-listening, half-tuned in like The...
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The Way We Heard. Love was All Around Us again.
It was obvious Laughing Boy was dying to ask Andy. He lit a fag first and took a few drags. Did you see her there?’ Andy pressed his lips together...
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The Way We Heard. Love Was All Around Us Too.
Old Jock, Podge, and that baldie guy whose name you could never remember, were playing darts up the other end of the pub. You were sitting at the...
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Sorrow
Whit went wrang wae auld age? Forget the good years we accrue Nor the bones of it Punchdrunk minds not renewed But that triple-lock of entitlement...
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well, I'd say it's a step up
Posted on Wed, 22 Jul 2026
well, I'd say it's a step up from being a cockroach. But I don't want to duck your question. All things are relative including my relatives and your story. Amazing as it is. It's just another story of a man turning into a duck and saving the...
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it captures not dilemmas, but
Posted on Tue, 21 Jul 2026
it captures not dilemmas, but people. People I know. Nan, whose husband drank everything, and had to exist on child benefit and handouts. So many more. It funny how many mothers who were pregnant at the altar give their own daughters such a hard...
Read full commentPosted in The Way We Heard: Three Coins In The Fountain (1954) (Pt.2)
America is a mess. It export
Posted on Mon, 13 Jul 2026
America is a mess. It export hate and imports bitterness. No great surprise people of colour and those of the poorer nations are treated shabbily and illegally. Americans and the Trump administration are at least conistent in that. I look forward...
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cheers Ray, my poetry is more
Posted on Sat, 11 Jul 2026
cheers Ray, my poetry is more often miss than hit, and claims I don't know what I'm doing would be fair.
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the bit about trying to write
Posted on Tue, 02 Jun 2026
the bit about trying to write 3 in a different way. Lying down. Sideways. As a four or two. That shows how scrambled you were. And it's great writing.
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you made the crooked road run
Posted on Sun, 12 Apr 2026
you made the crooked road run straight. Crime doesn't pay. Or so they say.
Read full commentPosted in Penny's Pass The Story - Part 10.
I certainly don't know what
Posted on Thu, 09 Apr 2026
I certainly don't know what to say. Which is a worry. Best just shoot somebody?
Read full commentPosted in "Pass the Story" Chapter 9
Lovely, he's not done.
Posted on Sat, 04 Apr 2026
Lovely, he's not done. Neither am I or think I'm not, but maybe.
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not all cats get to heaven? I
Posted on Fri, 03 Apr 2026
not all cats get to heaven? I guess that's fair. If I make the cut I hope not to meet Jordan Peterson or Donald J. Trump.
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great stuff. I almost know
Posted on Tue, 31 Mar 2026
great stuff. I almost know who done it. But what I'm not quite sure.
Read full commentPosted in Penny's Pass The Story - Part 8.
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