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Pad Life 18: Them's The Breaks

Little Cat and I are back, having totally failed in our mission. Picture copyright free from Pixabay.
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Bingo

‘Agnes,’ ‘Yes Bridie,’ ‘Would you like to come down with me to the bingo to see what it’s all about?’ Bridie said in her thick Louth accent. ‘Ah here...
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The Find

Dr Finkle, a man as peculiar as his name, was gifted a free night stay at the Aisling Hotel to go to a conference in Dublin. Dr Finkle lived in...
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The Elephant in the Room.
The biggest elephant in the room is how we see ourselves as distinct from the animal world. No matter how biologically similar we are to primates in...
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I'll admit I'm a person who needs more friends

It has come to my attention that I am suffering from a lack of friendships. This feeling grew inside me as I was folding small squares of paper into...
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(This Life) Part 9: Forever Pure

love pays no attention to boundaries.
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Smokescreen Chapter 8

This is the last chapter I'm posting here. Smokescreen is available at Amazon.co.uk link at foot of this chapter. I did the book cover.
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Crack-Crack-Boom
A bull’s eye of noise creates several large flashes from its lazer-beam lightning bolt partner to a colony of them just outside of Green Bay NB wild...
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Final Days

I remember how much Dad suffered during his final days. After months of receiving chemotherapy, he passed away. Regular chemo stopped working so they...
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Alfred N.Muggins’ Response To Words Of Wisdom From Tolkien!
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The Dark Lord eventually returns, unfortunately in a new guise! He has been quietly building his reserves and his military for many years, waiting to restore the Dark Empire, using his slaves to kill his opponents wherever he finds them!
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St Agnes Head, 10.7.22
Surrealists are trying to lead astray this evening. One of them has placed a pine bedstead complete with mattress on the headland among the heather,...
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Ugly Puggly 58
Our fellowship gave me a medal for being sober for a month. It was a wee plastic disc. I kept it in my side-pocket beside the van keys. I rubbed it...
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Five Days

Five days, who could imagine that five days could change your life forever, could put doubt and fear into your bones that you never thought to be...
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Midnight and Darkness

Up a one way street lost and driving without my glasses even at night and drunk. This was very long ago and I was mentally not well at the time I don...
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Marathon Man

Sir Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked to the UK as a child - BBC. Image from Wikipedia
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The Honeymoon

‘Ooohh here!’ Bobby says to his new wife Charlene in his Texan drawl, ‘we gone an booked us a nice place for a honeymoon!’ ‘We sure have!’ Charlene...
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Smokescreen Chapter 7

The car and plenty of rubber abandoned in front of the Station, I bounded up the steps, almost bowled McCrackers over on the other side of the door...
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Smokescreen Chapter 6

Chapter Six... DI Murray is an alcoholic, you get that, right? Base image by Mark Ahsmann CC-SA 3.0 Licence, source wikipedia commons.
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Ugly Puggly 57
I came in the front door after work, the living room was empty, the kitchen was empty. A pleasant woody aroma wafted in from outside. Dave came in...
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Deceit

I was sitting at my desk, working on a case. She walked in and sat down right in front of me. Neither of us said a word. She watched as I continued...
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