Cherrypicked stories
Ingerland My Ingerland: The Prime Ministers Who Made Me
How lucky was I in life's lottery ?
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I Will Ride
Anybody see Boris's bus crash interview with Susanna Reid? Unbelievable. image wikipedia commons.
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Ugly Puggly 18
Ugly Puggly was doing something with broad beans and peas, boiling them to death. ‘Whit have you got in the oven?’ I smacked my lips together, after...
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Trail Of Thought
A poem written to the sounds of Jazz, and inspired by the Bohemian and Beat Generation. Afternoon Lounge Jazz - Relaxing Jazz Music for Work &...
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On Being ‘Alone’
A death at any age, if it could and should have been avoided, is a death too soon. The life of a person with no children, parents, siblings or...
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Another Country
I wrote this in May 2015. I have crystal balls. I do not know this past, save through the prism of books written at the time they're supposed to be depicting. For it was not like any past I experienced first hand. Nostalgia is seductive, reductive and contains the nationalist propagandist's biggest lies. Image created from CC0 original.
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butterfly moment
truants of moonlight soft as forgetting wings, pale, delicate flicker in arcs then fold, as hair-fine feet cling, taste star white wild garlic...
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Ugly Puggly 17
We balanced plates of linguine dappled with parmesan on our laps in the living room. Ugly Puggly sat in his armchair across from us and sipped green...
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A Theft
I have set myself the challenge of writing a ghost story a month in 2022. This is probably more wierd fiction , but my challenge, my rules.
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Ugly Puggly 16
Hands deep in my pockets, I whistled Come on Irene for some reason, as I didn’t even like the song when it first came out. The pavement was speckled...
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