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What Would I Take?
It all seems a bit sketchy, it felt to me, like bits of news, here and there. The news that came to me, seemed to me did not seem to start at the...
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the claimant.
That morning, a husband and wife team—physiotherapist and psychologist—shot him a glance in the stairwell. Dr Sim always took the stairs. He knew...
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Beauty in the forgotten
In the gallery of thoughts, where opinions are brushstrokes, each hue a touch of the self, I stand, palette in hand, unfurling my own colours, bold...
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Withnail & I 2: Beer and Loving in Penrith (1)
I recently completed a script for a sequel to the 1987 cult comedy 'Withnail & I'. It is set 30 years after the original film - on the cusp of...
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Pareidolia
Look into the flames, and what do you see? Horses and dragons flash in and flee, faces and castles seem to appear for an instant, then disappear?...
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Shorthand conversations
You ask me about the kids I went to school with over thirty years ago I see them sometimes in the street And sometimes wave hello and sometimes do nt...
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Turnips and a scapegoat - Chapter 4
Sebastian and Oliver arrived back in Extremadura with two suitcases and a dream so vivid it nearly popped like a soap bubble the moment they stepped...
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Turnips and a scapegoat - Chapter 3
The moment they stepped off the plane, England’s undeniably rich greenery did its best to win back their hearts, but their newfound passion was too...
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run-of-the-mill sexual assault.
I guess it was a classic run-of-the-mill sexual assault. I hadn’t thought about it in a long while. Until one of my wife’s friends said something,...
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A Portrait of Grace and Dignity
Grace and Dignity from an American President The multiple thousands of delegates, from all across the far-flung corners of America and gathered in a...
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Dad's funeral during Covid
Got to the car park of the cemetery The cardboard coffin and my family We walk it in and lay it down Pandemic seating with too much space around A...
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The Staggers
'The Staggers did me father/and his old dad before -/now I’m the one to suffer/nature’s uncommon law.’
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Turnips and a scapegoat - Chapter 2
Inspired by their encounter, Sebastian and Oliver decided to book a trip to Piornal. They had always seen themselves as adventurers of sorts, yet now...
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Turnips and a scapegoat - Chapter 1
Sebastian and Oliver found themselves where they always were at this time on a Friday evening, at the swankiest supermarket Dorking had to offer...
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"Willow's Missing Tail" 15
Martha tiptoed up the stairs and across the hallway to Perfidia’s bedroom door and knocked softly. After several seconds of no response she knocked...
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True Love
God, as I knew, was very unforgiving. Most folk think of prophets as old guys with long beards. She said cheerio to half the people in the room. That...
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A Wee Walk Home From The Off License
Wee Walk Home From The Off License By Paul McCann It was a Saturday night and she asked me to go and get her a wee bottle from the off license . You...
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Alfred N.Muggins Becomes An Honourary Frenchman After Watching The Opening Ceremony Of The Olympics! : Part 2
1/8/24 It all took him back to the times when he had been in Paris, and France generally. He listened now to Debussey and Ravel, with his nose...
Watching You Chapters Eleven and Twelve
Chapter Eleven Black slipped through a fence as dilapidated as the house he was about to enter. As he strode through the weeds, moonlight flooded the...
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Monday morning's inner voice
You sit there, slumped in your chair, eyes glazed as you stare at the mountain of tasks before you. From above, I watch you, observing the weight you...
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