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A Year with the Brighouse Stars Walking Club (December)

December So Gordon then. Back in the day – the very early days of the walking club – the lads called him Galloping Gordon. He was something of a...
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Chapter 5: Into the Blue
Mumbai was unlike any place I’d ever seen - teeming with life, a cacophony of sounds, smells, and colours that hit you the moment you stepped off the...
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Gardens

IP. I don't do these often, you can see why. Image author's own, garden not.
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A hundred moments in autism - Maths

Autists get into trouble. We don’t mean to, but we can be too honest, too abrupt, say the wrong thing, or, all too often for no reason whatever. From...
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Chapter 2: Slade
The next round of interviews tested my patience. Five more candidates, five more failures. A programmer who talked too much, a drifter who barely...
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Chapter 1: The Skeleton Crew
The idea of locating the Leviathan on my own had started out as a thrilling challenge, but reality has a way of sobering even the most stubborn...
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Prologue: The Ultimate Deception
There’s a certain allure to vanishing completely - the idea of stepping out of your life and reemerging as someone untraceable, free. As I sat in the...
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The Burgh
Like some other Scottish places, this town abides, if not dilapidated, then resting like a lean to on its past. The sadness is in shadows that never...
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Musings Among Flowering Bushes

I talk to the trees
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Playful Elven Folk

Precious homeland of leafy green, leave emotions in darkest night, while bright eyed foxes play by moonlight and only the boldest would venture,...
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A hundred moments in autism - Terrence Oblong gets mistaken for the Messiah
In my first week at university I am standing in a bar at a student night when two young men I’ve never met before walk up to me, prostrate themselves...
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Leonard & Co-hen

Cohen claimed that all his lyrics were just poetry. He would write on anything that came to hand, sift through fragments later, pairing them up, piecing them together, one step up from Dada-ist Triztan Tzara's cut-ups, I suppose. Anyway, that's what i like to do, write bits and join them up later - or not.
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"That's Entertainment!"

I'm sure you'll work it out. Image is PD!!! By some 19th century geezer called Guillaume.
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A hundred moments in autism - Fashion
Fashion is one of these super neurotypical (NT) skills that are seemingly picked up by magic. Other kids at school always knew what to wear, what was...
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The Birth
The sun was a rustic orb lowering itself beneath the distant peaks. As if fleeting. Or hiding. Unable to watch from above the horror unfolding across...
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A hundred moments in autism - Mini Me
Our autistic friend C lives in Belfast, so we rarely see her and had never met her family. She has one autistic son, indeed like many autists of that...
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Parcel for you..Part 32

‘What on earth is happening over there?’ said Pat. Stu stood up taller on his cuban heels, like little hooves, they gave him an extra inch and a half...
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Requiem for a bearded reedling

Immediately, I feel something is terribly wrong. And it is the not the first time. But I dare not think about what it can be. Let alone to ask the...
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Esther
In the quiet corners of her heart, Esther’s voice, “Please let me be allowed to write about peace,” her pen trembling, sipping the ink of hope from...
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Missing You (Dead Reckoning series - Part 21)

In which Samantha attempts to be taken seriously and Archibald has even more concerns!
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