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Ugly Puggly 45

I checked the bedroom for booze, I might have missed, before going into the toilet. My face in the mottled mirror above the sink wasn’t pretty. ‘Who...
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Further Reflections on 'Being Alone'

I’ve become more and more interested recently in thinking and writing about solitude, about being and spending time alone and about the relationship...

Birthday

Our little Noah is nearly one year old. He's a lovely boy, as good as gold. Very active now, and getting bold. He's doing well, apart from the...
Cherry

A Bowtie and I

Image from Wikimedia Commons. - Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication .
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Ugly Puggly 44

‘Och, alright,’ Ugly Puggly said. ‘The locks werenae up tae much. Just as you’d expect. They looked solid, but they’re chocolate. You could open up...
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S T Vasectomy Clinic - 17

Cece floated out of the room like an angry spirit. St John waited until she was halfway up the stairs before relaxing into a sigh then he went to the...

You

Here is a bit of flash fiction. picture from pixabay. Look at you! You are a pathetic blubbering mess! Why did you ignore your friends when they...
Cherry

Ouch!

Don’t touch! It’s hot! … Ouch! …
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The Picture Ranch 59

Long time no hear... Micawber Fisher P.I. is still in trouble. Re - "priest-brained fish", accompanying image is a fisherman's priest.
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The Journey. Part Three.

Mum and Auntie had thought of everything, while they were living abroad, they had paid for their burial site and the whole funeral. Now they were...
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Inside the Mind Of Vladimir Putin by Mr Alfred N.Muggins

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16/3/22 (Potentate Putin, Comrade KGB, The Terrorist President, The Last Czar of Russia (who has now definitely superceded Nicholas Romanov II, who...
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Ugly Puggly 43

‘The last time I was up here, it was my aunt’s funeral—and it always freezin’. I hadn’t brought a jacket and tried to rub some warmth into my arms. ‘...
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Rain or Shine (2)

My neighbour Harry taught me much about the woods - called me ‘tadpole’ at the time. I learned the value of a mosquito net put worms on my hook use a...
Cherry

The Travellers

. The Travellers by Paul McCann There are too many heroes lying in the dust and I wonder if they , will ever learn to trust , they’re walking like...
Cherry

S T Vasectomy Clinic - 16

St John Hughes He had become so used to the perennial pregnant pause in their relationship. It had started off that way, in the early years of their...
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Poem of the week

Otters' Child

Small speed write on attending a SEND transition exhibition
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From Out of the Bush

When I was a boy I had a great admiration for maps. So much so, that I would often receive them as gifts. These remain some of my most jealously...
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The Asylum Part 2

It was summer and the hospital required for us to get some air daily. I was ushered into a courtyard, about twenty meters by twenty meters, which was...

The Asylum Part 1

As we drove down the windy gravelled road, our tires kicking pebbles into the trees that towered over us like a canopy trying to hide what was to...

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