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Annie tiptoed through life as if something bad was going to happen. I used to watch and listen for her. She smelled of carbolic soap. That fresh...

Preface i'm seeing the shadows of seamless moments in the quickening glancings scurrying here on back inside to their hiding from the dawn we're...

Ecological Balance Driving Miss Daisy? What kind of a car did Hoke Colburn drive Miss Daisy in? Diesal? Carbon dioxide blackening the lungs of...

Chapter Two I returned to my lodgings, head spinning. Surprise, and yes, elation after literally bumping into Clem, her cheeky remark about me being...

The illustration is of Mediocrates' more famous brother, Theocritus. Some of Mediocrates' poetry may have been mis-attributed to his brother, most likely the limericks. Image source is Wikipedia Commons and is in the public domain.

Jumping The Barriers by Paul McCann . Locked out from getting a break and not receiving support or encouragement has never decreased my hunger to...

I was born in 1950, in Lewisham Hospital, London SE13. It had been a workhouse, then a military hospital for the returning wounded of WW1. Mum and...

Little Miss Capable: sat at the table … She stuck in her thumb …

Mordechai in Slogger, 1974 rooting books in a box outside ‘ Barney’s Remainders’ in Bermondsey, I picked up Rambling Boyo, a snip at 20 p I stuffed...