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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(This Life) Part 8: Love and The Clarinet Maker

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16/3/22 (Potentate Putin, Comrade KGB, The Terrorist President, The Last Czar of Russia (who has now definitely superceded Nicholas Romanov II, who...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