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Gentlemen and Players
Over a very busy weekend, I managed to attend an exhibition match which was held as a tribute to a former comrade-in-arms, a fellow rugby player, who died recently. Servicemen are sentimental, and so are rugby players. Anyway, I wrote this for me, and for anyone who was there, in body or spirit. Picture is ©Garlands 2021
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Being Careful What You Wish For
I stare at the blank on-line Euro Millions card presented with the choice of five numbers between one to fifty and don’t forget the stars. I must...
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The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir 4
Extract from The Ministry of Complaints reproduced with the permission of Orlando Press. Copyright remains with the author. Or representative of the...
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The Taxicab
Mortimer drives a taxi, and meets many, diverse -often eccentric- people.
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Martyr
A young monk is killed for her beliefs
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THE MORAL DILEMMA
THE MORAL DILEMMA The beautiful lady stately, a shade short of fifty with a silk sari and a purdah all wrapped around , an aroma accompanying her ,...
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The Swallow's Broken Leg
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STAY CONSCIOUS
STAY CONSCIOUS The brain is the organ that sub serves thoughts.Thoughts dominate us with positive and negative emotions . Day to day events that...
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18.2 Police Enquiries
Police Interview with Joe Garrison; Torres: What do you do? Garrison: Cook. I do everything. Torres: Who brought the girls to the boat? Garrison:...
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Look Away Now
Look Away Now The carriage doors closed with a sigh as heavy as my heart, then slid back open, catching on their rubber stops with a deep thunk,...
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"Your Word is Truth"
…‘So not then hoodwinked easily by floods of falsehoods constantly that batter me or slyly squeeze into my thoughts with subtle ease. …
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On Giving Up
On Giving Up I tweeted this the other day… “I’ve had 3 novels published. These are the ones I’ve not had published: The Brothers Mosteckski Zeitgeist...
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Auld News
We’re baith buzzin when we get back hame. Scanlon reckons he’s found his callin as a diplomat based solely oan us managin tae get the deal done an...
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18.1 Police Enquiries
Police Interview with Paul Clancy; Torres: What time did you find your boat gone missing? Clancy: Around three-ten. I thought it cut the moors and...
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The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir 3
Chapter 2. The nurse’s soft Irish accent put me in mind of Ken Doherty the snooker player. All throughout my childhood, right up to my mid-teens, I...
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Night Time Stalker
As a child I often awake from a fading nightmare to peer at the shapes barely visible in the gloom. I my first career on the footplate I trundled across North London on lumbering freight trains at all hours of the night. It's truly scary what the mind can see until replaced by the cold light of dawn.
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THE LOVABLE SUBSTITUTE
The adolescent ,Arvind sitting in front , the son of a family friend of mine was pleading using all his savvy charm and gullible words to convince me...
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The Smell
The Smell of animal-like fear from a thunderous clap and I shaking and shouting in ecstasy pointing to the sky- its icicle spear of energy drawing my...
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Covid’s Conscientious Objectors
The purpose of this article is not to trivialize the virus, or even champion the whims of conspiracy theorists. It is to give a rational voice to...
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Coyle Loyal
A lassie in her early twinties hauds the close door open. She’s balancin a wean oan her hip, tyin her hair intae a ponytail wae her free haun an...
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