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Cogito ergo sum . The starting point of a million essays on philosophy. The duality of mind-body. Professor Guy Leschziner suggests it’s more complex, with what we think and who we are based on our sense of self is fallible and inconsistent based on a reality that isn’t really real, but a projection based on our internalised perceptions. Phew. Take a breather. He’s a neurologist—he gets angry at ‘these morons, those who are anti-vaxxers and anti...

Who are you? What are you? For a memoir a bit of backstory is needed. Try and fit ‘patriot’ into a single sentence in as many forms as you can manage. It’s on the book cover. The man who resigned because of a government cover-up. A smearing campaign against a patriotic whistle blower. I made notes and watched a documentary on Prime. If the world has a cancerous growth called global warming, wouldn’t it want to know? Eh, nope. Many of the tactics...

Posted by onemorething: This week's Story of the Week is beanzie's My Dinosaur Era - pick any chapter. It's great writing and am really enjoying reading along. https://www.abctales.com/story/beanzie/my-dinosaur-era-chapter-44 This week's Poem of the Week is VeraClark's brilliant Variable. https://www.abctales.com/story/veraclark/variable This week's Inspiration Point is here: https://www.abctales.com/inspiration-point-ip Wishing you all winter...

Let’s start at the beginning. I’m a reader who writes. You can’t be a writer who doesn’t read. Writing is secondary and often unnecessary, but I claim it as a calling of sorts. ‘I know no one wants to hear me say how hard writing is—quit while you can’. I liked Goldberg telling me that. Reminding me that. I’m pretty good at making starts. The equivalent of joining the gym on the New Year and promising to go swimming and sauna once a week too. I’...

With grateful thanks to Turlough, here are the ABCTales Picks of the Month for November: ABC Tales Story and Poem of the Month for November 2025 With such a wonderful array of excellent writing to choose from, November was a month in which our busy and talented writers maintained the usual high standard, so picking out a story and a poem of the month was quite a task but one that I enjoyed. I’ve always had good feelings from being part of this...

Young Lovers Anna de Vos & Buster Brown ~ Mamma & Sons ~ Chintsa Camping ~ Tom PhD graduation Selby & Mother ~ Anna Brown Our Late Mother

A dead bookmaker. A rushed verdict. Inspector Crowe isn’t buying it. When a celebrity bookie washes up on the Dublin coast, Garda Inspector P.J. Crowe is dragged into a violent world of dog fights, crypto crime, and powerful men who want the truth buried. The Payout Game is gritty Irish noir for fans of Stuart MacBride and Tana French — fast, atmospheric, and impossible to put down. The Payout Game is now available for pre-order on Amazon!...

So I was reading “The Hollow Men,” Eliot, and it broke on me, came to me, yes, it must be a hollow point bullet. A hollow point expands on impact, expands and stretches and transfers its damage. Expands. Stretches. Expands. Transfers. Expands. Like a starburst. Like fungus. That’s the way to do it. Expansion. Death by a bullet’s real estate. Amazing, really, the damage that a single caliber with a dipped tip causes. It shrooms. Mushrooms. Like a...