Cherrypicked stories
The Medium Has a Message
Jeremy and I knew that it would be a charade if not an outright con but we agreed to join the séance to please grandma Edna.
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A Blindworm’s Revenge
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African Praise Poem for My Aunt
Praise Poem for My Aunt 1955 - 2022 My Aunt, Janet Browne, walked in elegance and grace; Slowly, and peacefully, like a beautiful giraffe. She showed...
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Sticky Wullie
Gallium aparine : Bobby Buttons, cleavers, catchweed, whippysticks: so many names. Sticky Willy is my favourite. I spent summer once with cousins in Govan. We did actually see the countryside, it was a bus ride away and guess who got "sticky wullie" stuck on the back of his jumper. Other than that, I made it all up - but you knew that anyway. Image is PD from wiki commons.
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Ugly Puggly 15
I couldn’t get the electricity to work. I tried everything but paying for it. Flinging my arm around Dave’s shoulder in a rough clutch, he turned his...
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Chickens
Playing truant was always appealing. Always. Two nine-year olds deep into their school days would always know better than what adults told them. Your...
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Weeping Willow
A brief memory of childhood
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a perfect snowglobe
Love quietly stands in a memory like a letter written in the universe. I miss you; i miss your half smile in an icelnadic winter snow. So long ago,...
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Ugly Puggly 14
Ugly Puggly’s room was messy and and stunk of urine and weak bleach. Clothes were piled on an unmade bed. A half-eaten bread roll in the bin. He...
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The Clappers
When it comes to school productions, there is usually a mixture of emotions; pride, embarrassment, pressure, discomfort, excitement and then there’s...
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