A room with a Glasgow View

By celticman

The past is not past, but just lurking.

  • Log in to post comments
  • 4062 reads

Comments

Submitted by Kat027 on

A wise sentiment, indeed!

 

Cherry

Bill and the UFO

By celticman on Sat, 12 Feb 2011

no UFO sited-as yet.
Drama
Story
Certificate U
Cherry

bully for you

By celticman on Thu, 24 Jun 2010

away from the footie. a bit rough. go on feel free to point out the errors of my ways.
Drama
Story
Certificate U
Cherry

Coal Bags

By celticman on Wed, 07 Apr 2010

More grime and grimness
Drama
Story
Certificate U
Cherry

The best f**** team in the world

By celticman on Tue, 03 Feb 2009

There are winners and losers in all walks, but only one team can be the best!
Humour
Story
Certificate U
Cherry

Too late to talk to Benny

By celticman on Fri, 12 Mar 2010

It was everybody’s local -if you were local-an old man’s pub, that had been slapped about a bit, with paint, tarted up, to look younger.
Drama
Story
Certificate U
Cherry

Milk Boy

By celticman on Thu, 08 Apr 2010

re-edit 31/1/ visions of the Clyde
Drama
Story
Certificate U
Cherry

Uncle Stephen

By celticman on Tue, 13 Apr 2010

old sea dog tale
Drama
Story
Certificate U
Cherry

Tommy Turner

By celticman on Sun, 18 Apr 2010

you need faith
Drama
Story
Certificate U
Cherry

The matchmaker

By celticman on Mon, 17 May 2010

short story-long tail
Drama
Story
Certificate U
Cherry

Harley Street

By celticman on Sun, 30 May 2010

‘Mary,’ Ma shouted up the stairs, ‘there’s somebody at the door for you.’
Autobiography
Certificate U
Cherry

Harley 2

By celticman on Wed, 02 Jun 2010

more of the same nonsense
Drama
Certificate U
Cherry

Harley 3

By celticman on Thu, 03 Jun 2010

gruff guff
Drama
Certificate U
Cherry

Hughie Gringo

By celticman on Sat, 10 Jul 2010

Opportunity Knocks
Drama
Certificate U
Cherry

Duckin' day

By celticman on Sun, 13 Feb 2011

old stories.
Drama
Certificate U
Gold cherry
Story of the week

on the last day of Christmas

By celticman on Sun, 08 Sep 2013

Sometimes it’s better not to be born. I’m a dreamer. That’s worse than being normal. I play that tune in my head and look out the eight floor window...
Story
Certificate PG
1 likes
Cherry

Life in bits

By celticman on Tue, 15 Apr 2014

I picked up a photo of Billy Quinn the other day. Don’t ask me where I got it. He’s handsome. I don’t remember him being handsome. I never remember...
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Cadogan Street

By celticman on Sat, 26 Apr 2014

‘Hi, it’s me. Phone me back.’ ‘Hi, it’s me. Phone me back.’ ‘I’m a bit worried. Can you phone me back?’ ‘Is there something the matter with this...
Surreal
Biography
Certificate PG
Cherry

uncovering oneself (3)

By celticman on Fri, 16 May 2014

The downstairs bar shut. I bought a bottle of Buckie from the Off Sales. It was more expensive than usual, but I was more flush than usual...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

uncovering oneself (4)

By celticman on Sun, 18 May 2014

Bogey was glad to see me. Charlie wasn’t, but he held the back door open to let me in. Mum stood in the doorway between kitchen and hall and frowned...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

uncovering oneself (5)

By celticman on Sun, 25 May 2014

With money in my pocket I walked quickly to the Atantis bar. Sammy Small Talk was perched in his usual seat at the bar, a half pint of lager in front...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

uncovering oneself (6)

By celticman on Wed, 04 Jun 2014

My head throbbed like a man stuck upside down on the Big-Wheel carousel. Blackouts were called blackouts for a reason, not knowing which way was up...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Hope Street

By celticman on Thu, 11 Sep 2014

She loved that story of how they met. Telling it to her friend Julie on a rare night out made her smile and her voice shine. She is tender with...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
1 likes
Cherry

Shadow

By celticman on Sat, 07 Feb 2015

Dan’s birthday. Their bedroom stinks of stale fag smoke, booze and the acrid burn of hash. After giving him his present, and another kind of treat,...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12

the tug boat

By celticman on Sat, 07 Mar 2015

The Tug Boat pub was infected by McAllisters. He turned to go before he was spotted, but he made his move too late. ‘Happy Anniversary’ went the war...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12

flockers 2

By celticman on Thu, 12 Mar 2015

‘You were in the wrong waiting room.’ The lawyer shook my hand, introduced himself as John Cameron, Charlie’s advocate. ‘I’m sorry,’ Myra apologised...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
1 likes
Cherry

flockers 3

By celticman on Fri, 13 Mar 2015

Judge Morrie adjourned for lunch. Just as the big cheese advocate said he would. Stood outside on the stone steps with Myra. Lawyers and normal folk...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

flockers 4

By celticman on Sat, 14 Mar 2015

The day hadn’t started the way I’d hoped. I wasn’t late for work, which would have been a bad thing. But I was late for court, which wasn’t too bad a...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

flockers 5

By celticman on Mon, 16 Mar 2015

Had a few days to think about how wronged I’d been by the court system. Off work. Phoned in sick cough, cough, with the flu that needed careful...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

flockers 6

By celticman on Wed, 18 Mar 2015

Days passed in a shuttle of discomfort. My skin went to war with my body. Blisters appeared round the skin in my hands, soles of my feet and toes...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

flockers 7

By celticman on Wed, 25 Mar 2015

Myra’s studio flat had heating and hot water. I could have cuddled her. She ran a bath with all the suddy and splashy smelly stuff. She dipped her...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

flockers 8

By celticman on Fri, 27 Mar 2015

When Myra told me she went back with Charlie after he raped her I didn’t understand it, but in a way I did. She made a bed up for me on the settee...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

flockers 9

By celticman on Sat, 04 Apr 2015

Felt better. Scrubbed up as best as I could in the morning, a complexion like boiled pink ham, showed a face no mother would kiss. Breakfast a...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

flockers 10

By celticman on Sun, 05 Apr 2015

Must admit the journey home was constrained, especially on the train. Didn’t see much of Myra in the next few weeks. Neither of us had a phone. Put...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

flockers 11

By celticman on Mon, 06 Apr 2015

Swirled whisky around my tongue. Listened to the shrill see-saw cadence and frenzied excitement in his voice and the little gulps of silence. Poured...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

flockers 12

By celticman on Tue, 14 Apr 2015

Went to see Myra the next day. Wasn’t sure if it was the right thing to do. Wasn’t sure she’d want to see me. Whenever I appeared things got worse...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Bible John 2

By celticman on Tue, 30 Jun 2015

I clutch the handle of my holdall, with my purse secure inside. ‘I’m not sure,’ I say. I hold a leaflet out as a shield. ‘Perhaps she’ll get some of...
Spiritual
Story
Certificate PG
Cherry

quickie

By celticman on Tue, 06 Oct 2015

I’d a bad night. The guy upstairs had a burst pipe on Tuesday, which he didn’t know about. Next thing it’s Thursday, the ceiling comes down, and I’m...
Humour
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Countdown

By celticman on Mon, 09 Nov 2015

Countdown When Helen got the telephone call that her Da was dead she was curled up on one end of the couch watching Countdown, painting her toenails...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Plot without a story

By celticman on Sat, 21 Nov 2015

The note flapped through the letterbox and lay on the linoleum. I pulled open the door, just in time to see a denimed back sauntering up the street...
Spiritual
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Blood is thicker than water

By celticman on Tue, 24 Nov 2015

Rain splatters the pavement when I set out. My sister, Teresa, doesn’t live far, but then the moon isn’t that far, and I don’t particularly want to...
Science fiction
Story
Certificate PG
Cherry

Forbidden Fruit.

By celticman on Wed, 25 Nov 2015

‘Put your false teeth in,’ I said, ‘maybe then they’ll believe in you and believe in your prophecies more’. Old Joe had taken up a position between...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

the things that we buy and don't know why?

By celticman on Sat, 28 Nov 2015

The thought came like a First World War telegram – he assumed that she’d thought his family were marvellous. His mother was short and plump as a...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Last Call

By celticman on Wed, 30 Dec 2015

She clumped up the middle of Singers Road ignoring the pavements, damp and slippy with the mush of fallen leaves darkening pools against the wire...
Crime
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Don't talk back

By celticman on Sat, 16 Jan 2016

I slept through the Russian missile crisis when John F Kennedy called the Russian’s bluff and sent them homeward to think again. It was a simpler...
Drama
Story
Certificate PG
Cherry

organist and monkey

By celticman on Tue, 19 Jan 2016

The organ, off-kilter as a bagpipe chord, begins the first hymn. Major keys and minor key dance around the usual dirge. Funeral music. The...
Spiritual
Story
Certificate PG
Cherry

bergy

By celticman on Sat, 16 Apr 2016

It’s strange when you get out hearing soft, whispering womanly voices – he’s been sick—licking of soft strawberry lips to create a sympathetic sound...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

shitehouse to shitehawk: a user's guide

By celticman on Wed, 27 Apr 2016

I jot things down. Sometimes I order them later, or they order me. Usually, I don’t. That’s called the first draft. It’s full of grammatical mistakes...
Biography
Biography
Certificate 12

the gothic line

By celticman on Tue, 17 May 2016

Dinner begins with a closed door Smell of mince and totties Worse than the dentist’s chair Shut-up and sit over there Plate piled high as a rabbit...
Biography
Poem
Certificate PG
2 likes
Cherry

ghosts not spirits

By celticman on Tue, 24 May 2016

The pale green Audi with a ladder strapped to the roof jerks to a stop in the angled strip of road before the bus stop and the Irish Pope bursts into...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Le Cock: My Struggle.

By celticman on Thu, 26 May 2016

I’m reading ‘The International Literary Phenomenon’, Some Rain Must Fall: My Struggle, Book 5 , by Karl Ove Knausgaard. Cliché after cliché so it...
Romance
Biography
Certificate 15
1 likes
Cherry

IQ 2

By celticman on Tue, 05 Jul 2016

Cinders Disco was bound to be hoaching, Tina Turner so loud that it vibrated through the walls and brought out goosebumps on my eardrums. Tony, Boaby...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

IQ test 3

By celticman on Mon, 15 Aug 2016

Somebody had flung a scratchy blanket over my body to bury the unwashed. I woke up to the stench of my own body bathed in sweat. Eyes plumped by lack...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Jimmy Savile and me

By celticman on Tue, 15 Nov 2016

I was lying in bed when my mum rushed up the stairs, barged into my room, mouthed that it was Sir Jimmy Saville on the phone. I had to shoo her away...
Drama
Story
Certificate PG
Cherry

Grimms

By celticman on Tue, 29 Nov 2016

Dad pushed the room door open. I hadn’t heard him, or the door going. I was sitting side saddle on my bed, one leg a comfortable numbness, bare feet...
Drama
Story
Certificate PG
Cherry

Grimms2

By celticman on Thu, 15 Dec 2016

Dad was better fun than an alarm clock. I used to watch him before I was old enough to get locked up in school. The light in my room was on the death...
Drama
Story
Certificate PG
1 likes
Cherry

Grimms3

By celticman on Fri, 16 Dec 2016

Pizza Face is smaller than me, but with a big square head, so we’re really the same size. We’re standing in the smirry rain with duffle coat hoods up...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
1 likes
Cherry

Grimms4

By celticman on Thu, 22 Dec 2016

Pizza Face ducked his head down when he took a drag on a fag and hid it behind his leg when he wasn’t smoking. He’d stolen a dout, almost a full...
Drama
Story
Certificate PG
Cherry

grimms6

By celticman on Wed, 11 Jan 2017

Light shimmered and shed its hat of cloud and shadows. Snowfall drifted down setting the world to white. Our street was smaller and larger,...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

grimms7

By celticman on Thu, 12 Jan 2017

The hall is not much warmer than the landing, but the light left on in my room lets us see each other a bit better. Angela looks up at me, her golden...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

grimms9

By celticman on Sat, 14 Jan 2017

We’re playing statues in the hall. I’m at the front door, trying to sneak up on Angela in her house. Her mum has come into some money and bought her...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

grimms10

By celticman on Sun, 15 Jan 2017

Outside the wind carries the rain and it spills against my room window, but it’s not really that cold. I’m tucked up cosy in bed. I know all the...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

grimms11

By celticman on Mon, 16 Jan 2017

Despite smirry rain, Jaz and his two pals, Godge and Rab are drinking bottles of wine and messing about on the canal. They've hollowed a shallow boat...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

grimms12

By celticman on Tue, 17 Jan 2017

Pizza Face has a size- 4 Mitre ball at his feet, keeping it under control, caressing it into going the way we’re going by touching it with the instep...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

grimms13

By celticman on Tue, 17 Jan 2017

Traffic sloshes through the rain on Dumbarton Road. We pass a woman holding a brolly at forty-five degrees against the wind and to keep her permed...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

grimms14

By celticman on Fri, 20 Jan 2017

Jaz didn’t like wearing a hat, even though it was raining hard, because he thought it made him bald. Not that anybody would laugh at him. They wouldn...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

grimms17

By celticman on Tue, 24 Jan 2017

Jaz and Rab guard the bottom of the close, the wind scouring the back courts. The bins are on fire again. Flames leaving smouldering debris, the...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

grimms18

By celticman on Thu, 26 Jan 2017

It’s closing time when Dermot leaves the pub. The last round of drinks with his mates he’s downed a couple of goldies, the whiskies flowing through...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

grimms19

By celticman on Fri, 27 Jan 2017

Dermot picks up Angela and carries her into his wee boy’s room. His son, a step ahead in the lobby, slips into the room picks up his book of fairy...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

grimms20

By celticman on Sat, 28 Jan 2017

The fog lifts from the tops of the buildings leaving them stranded in light rain. By the time Dermot gets back to his close he spots pedestrians...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

grimms22

By celticman on Tue, 31 Jan 2017

Tony is lying in bed sleeping. It’s a Saturday, no school, and a long lie. But he hears his Da arguing with Geordie the milkman outside the front...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

grimms23

By celticman on Tue, 07 Feb 2017

There’s nothing else for it. Jaz decides to go and see Rab. There’s been talk – Rab’s old man wittering, he might be able to do something for them...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

grimm24

By celticman on Thu, 09 Feb 2017

‘You’ll never guess who the Rhetor was?’ Jaz says to Rab. Despite the dim light, Jaz had recognized Chief Inspector Collins at once. He was a tall...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15

grimms25

By celticman on Fri, 10 Feb 2017

The chaffing of barmaid’s singing lullabies, ‘Last orders,’ and deftly nicking the glass out of their hand before they are finished, Jaz and Rab are...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

grimms26

By celticman on Mon, 13 Feb 2017

Jaz can’t find his house keys and hammers on the front door, flipping the letter box with an untimely rat-a-tat-tat, echoing through the close. Karen...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

grimm27

By celticman on Wed, 15 Feb 2017

The school nurse’s grey hair resembles an unkempt blackbird’s nest, with a pokey wee white hat stranded on it. She has squeezed into her white...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

grimms28

By celticman on Wed, 15 Feb 2017

When Dermot answers the door, he’s not sure what to expect. ‘I’m Marie,’ she says, holding a soft hand out for him to shake. ‘And I’m a social worker...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

grimms29

By celticman on Thu, 16 Feb 2017

After a while Tony and Angela get sick of hiding from a giant dinosaur under the bed and crawl out dusty and uneaten, which is just as well, because...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

grimms30

By celticman on Fri, 17 Feb 2017

Jaz catches Pizza Face a slap on the back of the head when he catches him and Tony smoking a roll-up at the bottom of the stairs. ‘Go up to Rab’s and...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

grimms31

By celticman on Tue, 21 Feb 2017

‘Shouldn’t you be going up the road, about now?’ says Jaz, smiling into his pint. ‘To get ready for your big date.’ Rab’s bottom lips droops and he...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

grimms32

By celticman on Thu, 23 Feb 2017

Charlie the barman hovers around the five-foot mark and looks like King Louie from Junglebook , a comic figure, who knows everybody that is anybody,...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

grimms33

By celticman on Fri, 24 Feb 2017

Jaz is standing chittering at the bus stop outside Ramsay’s Fruit and Veg when a beige Morris Marina sweeps through the puddles, making an old guy...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

grimms34

By celticman on Sat, 25 Feb 2017

Crossing Kilbowie Road Jaz negotiates the tooting horns of cars and buses with the absent-mindedness of a three-year-old toddler and seems startled...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

grimms35

By celticman on Sun, 26 Feb 2017

Jaz panting and out of breath runs uphill, the dark street a whetstone underfoot, and the unexpected urgency of the chase sobers him. It makes him...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

grimms36

By celticman on Mon, 27 Feb 2017

Angela nips across the landing and rattles the letterbox. Dermot answers, swinging the door wide in welcome. He’s wearing his old work coat and work...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

grimms37

By celticman on Tue, 28 Feb 2017

With no telly to watch, Tony changes quickly into his jammies, and because of the cold dives under the covers of bed. He sleeps clutching his book of...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

grimms38

By celticman on Mon, 06 Mar 2017

Tony doesn’t decide to go to school, that’s just where his feet take him. The class has already garbled morning prayer, sung the time table and moved...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

grimms39

By celticman on Sat, 11 Mar 2017

Tony hunch-shouldered, tethers himself like a human-shaped balloon on the edge of familiar things, the chair his da usually sits in, watching the...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

grimms40

By celticman on Wed, 15 Mar 2017

There is a vacancy in the way Tony looks out the car window at the sweep of tenement building they pass and a sense of unease that they are going in...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

grimms41

By celticman on Thu, 16 Mar 2017

Tony remembers a parade of uniforms and much mumbling just outside of hearing. He forgets who has come or who had gone. Memories and dreams mixed up...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Grimms43

By celticman on Sat, 18 Mar 2017

On the second landing, Jaz can’t wait. He nips into the cludgie and pulls the door over, stands leaning, left hand splayed against peeling paint of...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Grimms 44

By celticman on Tue, 21 Mar 2017

Jaz sprawls on the couch, a Woodbine in his hand and has a few nips of whisky and sparks a can, leaving it at his feet. Angela, cross-legged in the...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Grimms45

By celticman on Wed, 22 Mar 2017

The smelly cupboard is the ideal place to hide the guns until Jaz can find somewhere better. He’s thinking ahead of ripping up floorboards and...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Grimms46

By celticman on Thu, 23 Mar 2017

Jaz quickly shakes off hangover the next morning with a quick blow job. He pulls his cock out of Karen’s mouth before he comes and his jizz squirts...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Grimms47

By celticman on Fri, 24 Mar 2017

Outside the snooker club, a black Hackney cab across the road lets somebody off. Jaz pulls his collar up against drizzling rain, decides since he’s...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Grimms48

By celticman on Mon, 27 Mar 2017

Rab cashes his Giro the next day and agrees to meet Jaz and the Tash back in the pub. Jaz sits waiting, nursing a warm pint, the Tash beside him...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry
Pick of the Month

Grimms49

By celticman on Wed, 29 Mar 2017

Tony shares a room at the top of the stairs with Bruno. ‘He’s a bed-wetter,’ whispers Julie. ‘We may get him up during the night to take him to the...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
1 likes
Cherry

Grimms50

By celticman on Thu, 30 Mar 2017

Tony places the fork carefully back down on the table, beside the butter dish. Clutching his eye, a colourful arabesque, milky with red veins, half-...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Grimms51

By celticman on Sat, 01 Apr 2017

Bruno is hanging about waiting for Tony when he comes out of the office. ‘An ambulance came and took Hunter away,’ he explains. ‘Hunter swears he’s...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Grimms52

By celticman on Fri, 07 Apr 2017

The cook looks up from a pile of dirty pots and dishes, rolls her eyes at Tony and comes walking towards him standing just inside the kitchen door...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15

Grimms54

By celticman on Tue, 11 Apr 2017

The social-work meeting takes place after lunch. Tony lies on top of his bed, with belly ache, paging through a stained Readers Digest he’d found on...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Grimms55

By celticman on Fri, 14 Apr 2017

Pizza Face sits on the floor in the living room, his back against the wall, tilting his head, gnawing at his thumbnail until his cuticles redden and...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Grimms56

By celticman on Mon, 17 Apr 2017

Angela stands, waiting. Bob shouts again. ‘Jesus,’ he rants, when there’s no reply and no sign of footfall. ‘You better come in, then.’ She cranes...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Grimms57

By celticman on Wed, 19 Apr 2017

Pizza Face pulls his duffle coat hood down, to show he is serious, even though the rain is coming down horizontal. He does a feint and step-over, is...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Grimms58

By celticman on Wed, 19 Apr 2017

Bruno perches on the bed in the muggy heat of his room with his jacket zipped up, and the leather strap of his school bag over his shoulder, waiting...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Grimms59

By celticman on Fri, 21 Apr 2017

On the day of his dad’s funeral Tony gets himself ready early while the care staff busy themselves having a meeting to decide who is to accompany him...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Grimms60

By celticman on Tue, 25 Apr 2017

Karen answers the door tugging the belt of her flowery nightgown tighter, smiling, and giving a little wiggle as Dougie towers over her and ogles the...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Grimms62

By celticman on Mon, 01 May 2017

Jaz tries to erase the memory of the snivelling shadowy self he’d been earlier by tearing into the booze. But Del isn’t hanging about either. They...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Grimms63

By celticman on Mon, 08 May 2017

In the late bloom of spring, snow scars the Old Kilpatrick hills. Seagulls swoop above Angela’s head, screeching along the bins on Risk Street. A...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Grimms64

By celticman on Wed, 10 May 2017

Jaz is gagging for the first pint of the day, but is stuck in traffic, enclosed in a bubble of the front seat of a red Volkswagen. Del is driving...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
1 likes
Cherry

Grimms65

By celticman on Sat, 13 May 2017

Angela’s eyes are splintered with not sleeping, she lies scrunched like a question mark at the bottom of the bed, blankets tight around her shoulders...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Grimms66

By celticman on Mon, 15 May 2017

Del fits false number plates to the white Volvo, stolen to order for the job, in the early hours of the Friday morning, from Bearsden. Dougie lounges...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Grimms67

By celticman on Mon, 22 May 2017

Bob rolls up the sleeves of his frayed, green, checked shirt, and uses the side window of the dining room as a temporary seat. No wind, slow moving...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

grimms68

By celticman on Sun, 11 Jun 2017

Angela stands sulking in the driveway, near the dining-room window, anorak brushing against the wall, out of sight of everyone, poking at something...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Grimms69

By celticman on Tue, 13 Jun 2017

Tony dashes up the stairs without meeting anybody, but Bruno, who has been searching for him, spots him from the lobby and clunks up the stairs after...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Grimms 70

By celticman on Wed, 14 Jun 2017

Jaz figures he’ll need to take driving lessons, not right away, but sometimes soon. He could buy one of those fancy Jaguar cars now. Pay cash. He’s...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Grimms71

By celticman on Thu, 15 Jun 2017

A couple of days pass, then a week, in which Jaz does little more than alternate between pubs and empty glasses follow him. Maggie Scott’s for...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Grimms72

By celticman on Sun, 18 Jun 2017

Jaz ganders out the kitchen window and sees Pizza Face playing outside, kicking a ball against the bins. ‘Hi,’ he calls through to Angela, but it’s...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Grimms73

By celticman on Thu, 29 Jun 2017

‘You don’t need to be daft and drown yerself. You can just drink the poison to kill yerself.’ Bruno is deft at sneaking up on people and has big lugs...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Grimms 74

By celticman on Fri, 30 Jun 2017

Jaz hears the loud screeching and the rising harangue which follows. It woke him up. It wakes the whole tenement block. The smell of cigarette smoke...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Grimms75

By celticman on Sat, 01 Jul 2017

With all the cash Jaz is carrying and the hurry-scurry Rab is surprised to be standing beside him at a bus stop waiting for a bus. Jaz has brought...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
1 likes
Cherry

Grimms 76

By celticman on Sun, 02 Jul 2017

Awash with pints and halfs and even mouth puckering gin, with a slice of lemon and whisky in the same glass. Cocktails of his own devising. His day...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Grimms77

By celticman on Thu, 06 Jul 2017

Junior hurries home. Tired and hungry, his hair sun-washed and lighter than his brothers’, he finds virtue in manual labour, skin lightly tanned and...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Grimms 78

By celticman on Sat, 08 Jul 2017

Fag smoke drifts above Pizza Face’s head. His is a frightened silence amid bickering conversation and accusations of neglect. The last of the sun...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Grimms 79

By celticman on Tue, 11 Jul 2017

Tony’s social worker, Marie, arrives on an official visit. She waits for him in the office. Dayshift-staff circle around, Julie flustered, leaves her...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Grimms 80

By celticman on Wed, 19 Jul 2017

‘What’s been the crack then?’ Del stands at the front door, a cigarette jammed between his lips. A clean white open-necked shirt sleeves contrast...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Grimms81

By celticman on Thu, 20 Jul 2017

Lizzie is as lovely as Jaz remembered her, perhaps more so, with her chiselled cheekbones and hair untamed as a burning bush. The room is stuffy and...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Grimms82

By celticman on Fri, 21 Jul 2017

Jaz sits in his usual table in the corner of Maggie Scott’s, with a view of the door, nursing a pint. He’s been reduced to mooching about in his Y-...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Grimms83

By celticman on Sun, 23 Jul 2017

‘I’m here to see Tony,’ says Angela. Bob stands elephantine in the doorway of the Home with his checked shirt buttoned up to his neck, glasses off-...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Grimms 84

By celticman on Thu, 27 Jul 2017

Five days after robbing the Securicor van Jaz pulls a mask over booze coloured ruddy red cheeks and face and, hungover, is back at work. Del and...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Grimms 85

By celticman on Fri, 04 Aug 2017

‘This big gigantic guy with an eye is trying to kill him,’ Bruno says, with exaggerated affect. ‘So he can eat them.’ His voice rises and he gets...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Grimms 86

By celticman on Mon, 07 Aug 2017

Jaz sits in a haze of cigarette smoke in his usual perch in Maggie Scott’s, back against the wall, watching the door. Rab stumbles in and weaves...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Grimms87

By celticman on Thu, 10 Aug 2017

Rab finishes his pint and follows Jaz out of the pub. He feels woozy, as if he could lie down for a lunch-time nap. A few minutes’ walk through...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Grimms88

By celticman on Sun, 13 Aug 2017

Jaz squats on his haunches at the door to the smelly cupboard in the lobby. Under the light of a thirty-watt bulb he inspects the Starr pistol in his...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Grimms 90

By celticman on Sun, 27 Aug 2017

A stilted walk to the car, flared denim flapping in the wind, guns pressed one-handed, hard, against their bodies, but concealed in their coats. Del...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Grimms 91

By celticman on Mon, 28 Aug 2017

Angela sits on the top steps on her landing, waiting. Tugs have been pulled and combed from her blonde hair and skin been scrubbed pink in the...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Grimms 93

By celticman on Fri, 29 Sep 2017

Jaz is a different man on the Larne Ferry, a man that now suddenly believes in the hereafter. The crew wear uniforms, blue shirts and grey trousers,...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Grimms 94

By celticman on Sat, 30 Sep 2017

Jaz tries to work his way out of the seat and buy a round, but a hand goes on his shoulder and Bri in a voice that merges pity with outrage shouts...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Grimms 95

By celticman on Sun, 01 Oct 2017

Karen isn’t sure how she feels. She looks over the rooftops hoar frost has picked clean of grime and burnished glistening white. Outside the kitchen...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
1 likes
Cherry

Grimms 96

By celticman on Wed, 04 Oct 2017

At the top of the Cressie Stairs, just before Angela crosses the road to go to school, she bends away, follows the black train of crows in the sky...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Grimms 97

By celticman on Sat, 07 Oct 2017

Jaz’s handler is waiting for him underneath the clock and the monument of remembrance. A gold-leaf list of the Clydebank dead from the First and...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Grimms 99

By celticman on Thu, 12 Oct 2017

‘Weet, weet,’ says an man at the bar, the cuffs of his gabardine coat falling down his thin wrist as he necks down the last of a Grouse whisky. ‘Aye...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Grimms 100

By celticman on Sun, 15 Oct 2017

Bedcovers deaden Tony’s hearing, seals him in the tomb of his dreams, but when he sticks his head out of his bed, he’s alive to the wind rattling...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Grimms 101

By celticman on Tue, 24 Oct 2017

‘How are we gonnae dae it?’ The idea feels jaggy, sticking in Bruno’s gullet. He shakes his head, wets his mouth with saliva and begins again. ‘I...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

WMD 2

By celticman on Fri, 27 Oct 2017

‘You want me to add some vinegar to this water?’ I asked. ‘For old time’s sake.’ ‘Nah, just give it to me straight.’ He tried to raise His head, but...
Surreal
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Grimms 102

By celticman on Mon, 30 Oct 2017

From Dalmuir train station to Glasgow is a distance between not far and life changing, the the High Court an Intensive Care Unit of the Criminal...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Grimms 103

By celticman on Thu, 02 Nov 2017

Representing the Crown and prosecuting for the Fiscal Office, Queen’s Counsel Montrose appears born to the era of wigs and absentmindedly fingers the...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Grimms 104

By celticman on Thu, 09 Nov 2017

Detective Inspector Grier knows his place and sits smoking, which gives him something to do, in the soundproofed room away from the stage of the...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Grimms 105

By celticman on Fri, 10 Nov 2017

The forensic expert, Mr Cleary, wears a baggy brown cardigan with bulky pockets he jams his fists into. He shadows the Macer, but is smaller, hitting...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Pretending to be me.

By celticman on Tue, 27 Feb 2018

You worked in that video store beside the Cressie Stairs. A grey shop, a belly-flop of unordered Betamax tapes and dust that made me sneeze. Bless...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

The Rock

By celticman on Thu, 01 Mar 2018

The bell rang for the end of recreation and tally count of heads throughout Barlinnie. Prisoners milked it, flinging down the last domino in disgust...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12

the gothic line

By celticman on Fri, 20 Jul 2018

He offered drunken prayers for the dead Wanted to call his pals on the blower Those who knew How artillery weighs the soul Keeps you in touch with...
Biography
Poem
Certificate PG
1 likes
Cherry

Sammad

By celticman on Sun, 29 Jul 2018

One of his shoes was missing, his cheek face down in wet, overgrown, weeds. A man in his early twenties, wearing an oversized leather jacket, his...
Travel
Story
Certificate PG
1 likes
Cherry

two-faced

By celticman on Sat, 08 Sep 2018

I pushed my glasses high to rest on my forehead and stared across the road. I saw her outside the paper shop on Dunbarton Road, recognised her by her...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

twelve-noon-two

By celticman on Sat, 13 Oct 2018

Two things pissed Marie off, getting phone calls in the middle of the night and life in general. What made it worse was she’d been in a deep sleep,...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
1 likes
Gold cherry

twelve-noon-three

By celticman on Sun, 14 Oct 2018

‘You mind if I smoke?’ Paddy rested his back against the headboard. He’d woken early, hadn’t really slept, had thought of sneaking away, but then...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

twelve-noon-four

By celticman on Tue, 16 Oct 2018

Paddy came spruced up and fully dressed, out of the shower, and dropped the wet towel on the bed. He adjusted his tie and polished his shoes by...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

twelve-noon-six

By celticman on Thu, 18 Oct 2018

Paddy stood outside the church, he’d found it almost impossible to get a parking space and had circled for fifteen minutes before parking on a corner...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

twelve-noon-seven

By celticman on Fri, 19 Oct 2018

After Sarah used the toilet and flushed, she put the toilet seat down, and washed her hands and doused her face in cold water. No soap. No towel. She...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
1 likes
Cherry

twelve-noon-eight

By celticman on Tue, 23 Oct 2018

In the early hours, a ghostly presence in a billowing black dress with sleeves gathered at the cuff, Sarah pushed heavy furniture aside and hoovered...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
1 likes
Cherry

panjandrums

By celticman on Mon, 29 Oct 2018

I’d wrapped up for a winter walk with woolly hat and gloves even though it was just the beginning of May. Clydebank meteorological charts being...
Philosophy
Story
Certificate U
Cherry

Pandora's Box

By celticman on Fri, 09 Nov 2018

I lost my wallet somewhere between buying a black pudding supper at the chippie, a seagull swooping down on my head at the shortcut to Dickens Avenue...
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Story
Certificate 12

samsara

By celticman on Thu, 29 Nov 2018

A man of unsolid muscle stands You could call fat But nobody would tell him that He gies me the eye Yatters on his epiphany about scum The cosmic...
Talecatching
Poem
Certificate PG
Cherry

Angel

By celticman on Thu, 17 Jan 2019

‘I’ll get us some coke,’ shouted Kimmie above the disco beat. ‘Nah, I’m alright, I’ve got a can there.’ Angel dinked the red tin on the table with...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Angel 2 (home)

By celticman on Fri, 18 Jan 2019

Angela crouched and pulled her chair closer to the electric fire. It had four bars, twin sets in curved reflectors, but only the top bar worked. The...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Angel 3 (disco)

By celticman on Mon, 21 Jan 2019

Kimmie hooked up with the ginger-haired boy. The blast of Temptation - Higher and Higher- Temptation blasted from the speakers. On the dance floor...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Angel 4 (at the dump)

By celticman on Tue, 22 Jan 2019

Wind whipped rain into Angel’s forehead and high cheek bones and made her look like a sixteen-year-old waif. More like herself than the make-up she’d...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Angel 5 (houseparty)

By celticman on Wed, 23 Jan 2019

The guy with the moustache searched through his coat pockets, pulling out his fags and the bit of hash and then his hands diving into the side and...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Angel 6 (rape)

By celticman on Thu, 24 Jan 2019

Kimmie groaned and threshed like a fish on the line as they bundled together. Angel didn’t know where to look. She concentrated on holding the glass...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Angel 7 (after the music stops)

By celticman on Fri, 25 Jan 2019

Kimmie’s hand on her friend’s shoulder grounded Angel, brought her back to herself, but she moaned loudly, dry retching. Her muscles rippled along...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Angel 8 (work)

By celticman on Sat, 26 Jan 2019

Angel struggled out of her bedclothes, she’d fallen asleep exhausted with her clothes on, expecting the knock on the door at any minute. The radio-...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Angel 9 (and Pizza Face)

By celticman on Sun, 27 Jan 2019

Angel stayed in all week and also the following week, barely venturing from her room, other than to go to work. Kimmie had chapped the door a few...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Angel 10 (bromance)

By celticman on Mon, 28 Jan 2019

Angel lit another cigarette, more for something to do, and she rolled down the window. ‘Sorry,’ she blew out the smoke sideways, fanning it with her...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Angel 11 (Edinburgh)

By celticman on Tue, 29 Jan 2019

Pizza Face parked in his usual spot and smiled as Angel rushed out of her house, crossed the road and rushed to meet him. Sunday, her day off, and...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Angel 12 (the tramp)

By celticman on Tue, 29 Jan 2019

‘You hungry?’ he asked. ‘We could go for something to eat along there.’ He waved his hand in the direction of the traffic behind them. ‘Not really,...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Angel 13 (mum and Mattie)

By celticman on Wed, 30 Jan 2019

The living room door was open. ‘Can I have a word, m’lady?’ Karen leaned sideways in her armchair, almost knocking over an overflowing glass ashtray...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Angel 14 (getting to first base)

By celticman on Thu, 31 Jan 2019

‘Sorry, I was delayed,’ said Angel as she stepped into the car and pulled her seatbelt on. She sniffed and turned her head away, looking back at the...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Angel 15 (return of Kimmie)

By celticman on Fri, 01 Feb 2019

Kimmie’s cat’s-eyes makeup was smudged. She hopped and skipped in front of Angel in a pale blue, zip-up hooded top and gripped the top of her denims...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Angel 16 (second base)

By celticman on Sat, 02 Feb 2019

Pizza Face waited religiously for Angel parked in his Jaguar every night and weekends before work. The main roads and backroads they’d travelled like...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Angel 17 (Wotsits)

By celticman on Sun, 03 Feb 2019

‘Where you going?’ Angel asked when Pizza Face started the car the following night. ‘Going?’ he took his foot off the clutch. ‘I never really thought...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Angel 18 (portrait)

By celticman on Mon, 04 Feb 2019

Pizza Face parked the car in a layby off the street, and at the end of the building. He clutched Angels hand and frog-marched her down the hill and...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Angel 19 (bad dreams)

By celticman on Tue, 05 Feb 2019

‘Jesus, that’s minging.’ Angel sat up in bed, her face had been pressed against the wall. Disoriented, not sure where she was, until she felt Pizza...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Angel 20 (fizzing)

By celticman on Thu, 07 Feb 2019

‘Did you hear Diana Dors died?’ Kimmie tried to make conversation. She was sitting on the couch in their flat in Partick, had a mug of tea in her...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Angel 21 (making a hash of it)

By celticman on Fri, 08 Feb 2019

The tall cop kept a hold of Angel’s arm. Clean shaven with a bony boyish face it was difficult to tell what age he was, but with a dimple on his chin...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Angel 22 (time)

By celticman on Sat, 09 Feb 2019

‘We can dae this the hard way, or we can dae this the easy way,’ said the stout officer doing the fingerprinting and he rifted. His breath smelled of...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Angel (change and charges)

By celticman on Mon, 11 Feb 2019

Angel’s time had been taken up with crying and trying not to, when she had riches bestowed on her, a puff of a smoke—she had to bang on the door for...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Angel 24 (Corton Vale)

By celticman on Tue, 12 Feb 2019

‘How’ve you been?’ Karen stumbled and pressed her face against Angel’s neck and a male prison guard patrolling the passageways around the tables and...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Angel 25 (prison time and design)

By celticman on Wed, 13 Feb 2019

A wee boy held his brother’s hand. With intense concentration he guided a blue Dinky car up and down the curves of the chair and table as his family...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Angel 26 (church and children)

By celticman on Thu, 14 Feb 2019

Most of the prison jobs were taken, but Angel hoped to get something soon. She got free- association a few hours a day and out for meals, sitting at...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Angel 27 (tony and bruno)

By celticman on Fri, 15 Feb 2019

Everything about prison quickly became routine and depressing. Visitors and visiting- time, bucked that trend and gave Angel a share of the communal...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Angel 28 (proposal)

By celticman on Sat, 16 Feb 2019

Angel glanced around at the clock. There wasn’t a lot of time left. She took a deep breath and just came out with it. ‘I don’t know if you heard, but...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Angel 29 (amnesty)

By celticman on Sun, 17 Feb 2019

Angel smiled when she saw Tony waiting for her in the visiting room. She wanted to hug him, but sat across from him grinning. ‘You came.’ ‘Aye,’ he...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Angel 30 (hard to say no)

By celticman on Mon, 18 Feb 2019

Angel looked over and Tony followed her gaze. A kerfuffle in the corner of the room, close to where some kids were playing with a plastic Thomas the...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Angel 31 (hard knocks)

By celticman on Tue, 19 Feb 2019

Angel was shaking all over when she got back to the cell. She could feel her heart beating, her bones knocking together. Lisa had some crap on the...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Angel 32 (causality)

By celticman on Wed, 20 Feb 2019

Carol Anne’s hand reached into her jacket pocket for her tobacco tin. Her fumbling fingers had a hard time forcing the lid and anger flickered across...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Angel 33 (on report)

By celticman on Thu, 21 Feb 2019

Angel didn’t see what happened to Carol Anne. Before he dashed away to use the phone Peter had taken her by the arm into one of the workrooms and...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
1 likes
Cherry

Angel 34 (Jonah)

By celticman on Fri, 22 Feb 2019

Val made a point of meeting Angel outside her cell door after her meeting with the governor. ‘Some of the girls have been talking. C’mon back to mine...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Angel 35 (scan)

By celticman on Sat, 23 Feb 2019

Angel had hoped her mum might have been at the baby scan. She’d written and told her and then she’d phoned to remind her. But Karen hadn’t turned up...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Angel 36 (every picture)

By celticman on Sun, 24 Feb 2019

Angel didn’t need a black cab to take her back to Corton Vale. Flying, she clutched the black-and-white, print-out of the twins, and studied it again...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Angel 37 (rift)

By celticman on Mon, 25 Feb 2019

The screws weren’t in a good mood. Angel wasn’t sure what happened but the girls had kicked off because visiting time had been delayed and the time...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Angel 39 (returns)

By celticman on Tue, 26 Feb 2019

‘You’ve another visitor’s request.’ Church stood in the door of the cell, with a slip of paper in her hand. ‘That’s great.’ Angel made her wait...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Angel 40 (earrings)

By celticman on Sat, 02 Mar 2019

Her shoulders dipped and she sighed, staring down at the table. ‘I’ve got to listen to most of the girls in here talking non-stop about what they’re...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
1 likes
Cherry

Angel 41 (Lisa's)

By celticman on Sun, 10 Mar 2019

During visiting hours, when Angel was downstairs, staff had taken Lisa away. Her cellmate seemed so happy when they had burgers and chips for lunch,...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Angel 42 (return ticket)

By celticman on Tue, 12 Mar 2019

While Mickey was out, scratching around looking for a bit of dope and visiting one of the other prisoners in their cell, Angel tried writing a letter...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Angel 43 (midwife)

By celticman on Wed, 13 Mar 2019

Carla had been chatting, fag in her hand, the debris of breakfast on the table. Angel mentioned that she was to see the midwife that day. ‘Fuck sake...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Angel 44 (birth)

By celticman on Thu, 14 Mar 2019

The midwife made sporadic visits over the weeks and months and she’d told Angel there was nothing to worry about, which was worrying itself. Angel...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Angel 45 (mercy)

By celticman on Mon, 18 Mar 2019

Sunlight filtered through the vertical blinds, the room bright and airy, Angel yawned. The night-shift guard, who introduced herself as Sarah, was...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Angel 46 (new ward)

By celticman on Tue, 19 Mar 2019

Angel was moved by the nurses to a four-bed ward that smelled vaguely of disinfectant, pee and talcum powder. Her bed faced the double doors. She...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
1 likes
Cherry

Angel 47 (scrap)

By celticman on Wed, 20 Mar 2019

Angel could see from her mum’s face that Karen was in huff when she spotted Pizza Face. Karen made a point of cuddling Lisa and kissing her wee face...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Angel 49 (getting acquainted)

By celticman on Fri, 22 Mar 2019

Angel heard the click of a switch from the room next to her and the bump and sound of a hoover. The twins didn’t notice, but it buoyed Angel, the...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Angel 50 (dinner and dates)

By celticman on Sat, 23 Mar 2019

After Angel fed the twins her nipples were chaffed, but she wanted to make sure they had settled. To distract herself, she picked up the remote and...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Angel 51 (good cop, bad cop)

By celticman on Tue, 26 Mar 2019

Angel quickly established a routine with Lisa and Adam. They quickly established their own counter-routine which included staying up all night and...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Angel 52 (compromise)

By celticman on Sat, 30 Mar 2019

‘There’s nothing as cruel as folk,’ muttered Angel, kissing the tops of the twin’s heads and hugging them tight to her breasts. They didn’t let up...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Angel 53 (baby-shaped hole)

By celticman on Sat, 06 Apr 2019

When Angel woke it was still dark outside and, for a moment, she thought Jaz was coming to get her and she wondered where she was. It was the sounds...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Angel 54 (new deal)

By celticman on Mon, 08 Apr 2019

Angel heard the shuffle of feet coming up the stairs. She could still taste fried food in the air and the dank smell of unwashed kiddie clothing...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Gold cherry

Angel 55 (advocate)

By celticman on Tue, 09 Apr 2019

Angel’s mum had come to visit, but it hadn’t ended well. Stacey asked her to leave because Karen was blitzed and shouting abuse at anybody that came...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Angel 56 (old wounds)

By celticman on Wed, 10 Apr 2019

Angel had kept in touch with Bruno by phoning him. They skittered around where Tony was like two drunks trying to find loose change to pay for a...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Angel 57 (Pizza Face and Tony)

By celticman on Fri, 12 Apr 2019

Angel was late getting the twins dressed when Stacey came to tell her there was somebody on the phone. Adam clenched his fists like a boxer who was...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Angel 58 (cruel symmetry)

By celticman on Sat, 13 Apr 2019

‘Coming,’ rasped Angel. Stacey hovered at the top of the stairs, but Angel heard her clumping away to her room when she answered. Outside a dog...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Angel 59 (QC)

By celticman on Mon, 15 Apr 2019

‘I’m not too worried,’ Angel, a slight edge in her voice, caught Stacey hurrying out of the kitchen with a folder in her hand. ‘But Lisa is beginning...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Angel 60 (Bruno's confession)

By celticman on Wed, 17 Apr 2019

The following weeks were the longest Angel could remember. The twins were fractious with the sudden heatwave and didn’t sleep very well. One night...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Nanny Anna 2

By celticman on Wed, 12 Jun 2019

Nanny Anna rifled through the cupboards for biscuits. She tended to stuff them into the back of the cupboard after she’d opened them and forgot about...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
1 likes
Cherry

the butterfly bush

By celticman on Sun, 16 Jun 2019

‘Explain to me how you came to drown?’ His dark eyes twinkled as he peered at her over round glasses that sat squinty on his broad face and a bush of...
Philosophy
Story
Certificate PG
Cherry

Drop Off

By celticman on Fri, 19 Jul 2019

The phone goes and I answer it, ‘Come and get me. Come and get me, Coach,’ he says. Befuddled with sleep. Think it’s the work and I’ve slept in –...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Spaghettio

By celticman on Sun, 28 Jul 2019

‘What’s this?’ Molly asked. Before Spaghettio had time to answer the phone rung, which was unusual, but not unknown as they were ‘courting’ as Molly’...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
1 likes
Cherry

good tears and bad.

By celticman on Mon, 26 Aug 2019

I used to have the run of the house, said Nanny Anna. When I was wee I was always with my mammie’s mammie and she kept me right. I always got my own...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Visiting Time

By celticman on Fri, 29 Nov 2019

The torso of the hanged man hovered about his bunk, a dark cloth hood over his head, his lower limbs appearing and disappearing into a grey misty...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Lockclown

By celticman on Mon, 06 Apr 2020

During lockclown, other people get bored. He never gets bored. It gives him more time to talk about his favourite subject— You know the type, we...
Rant
Story
Certificate PG
Cherry

Tour de Falkirk

By celticman on Sun, 31 May 2020

Bod, my wee brother, was still in lockdown mode, hoarding Digestive biscuits and t-bags, but he lived in Grangemouth and they’re used to that kind of...
Biography
Story
Certificate 12
Gold cherry

Ramadan

By celticman on Wed, 01 Jul 2020

I’m trying to find a piece of paper with the dates of Ramadan on it. The Muslim religious festival. For those of you that know me, you’d be right on...
Biography
Story
Certificate PG
1 likes

creative writing for losers

By celticman on Sun, 12 Jul 2020

Our creative writing class was full of the usual kind of beatific-faced losers. Most of them elderly. There was one girl with brown hair and bad skin...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
1 likes
Cherry

Cloudy at the bar.

By celticman on Sat, 10 Oct 2020

I was stuck on my usual perch, the high-stool in the Club Bar with my back to the Gent’s. Got for free the usual waft of warm humanity as the toilet...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Cloudy still at the bar.

By celticman on Mon, 12 Oct 2020

I grabbed my glass and guided them to a table on the main drag. Santa’s little helper and Santa, Lisa and Jane, should have been sitting with the...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Cloudy going home

By celticman on Tue, 13 Oct 2020

Lisa gave me her perfumed hanky to stem the bleeding. But I clutched at my hand when we came out of the door of the pub. The girls had no coats. They...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Cloudy goes to the Boulie.

By celticman on Wed, 14 Oct 2020

Spending loose change was the easy part. Chips and suppers, a bitter pickle. A bottle of ginger-beer, which reminded me how young they were. Standing...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
1 likes
Cherry

Cloudy gets on like a house on fire.

By celticman on Fri, 16 Oct 2020

Cloudy kept an eye on the driver. He moved Jane’s hand away from his cock and placed it on the side of his thigh. Her tongue was down his throat and...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Cloudy and good night

By celticman on Sat, 17 Oct 2020

Ken sounded chirpy, ‘Alright?’ He motioned with his head at the blackened door. ‘Let’s get some timber from my hut. And we’ll board that up.’ ‘No,...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

How Harper Lee helped me to gain admission to Harvard's Creative Writing MFA

By celticman on Tue, 01 Dec 2020

‘The only time I ever came close to Jesus was the calm after her orgasm.’ This was the first line in my portfolio of stories. During lockdown, I...
Spiritual
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry
Story of the week

A Pile Up of Boys

By celticman on Wed, 16 Dec 2020

The secretaries behind the sliding-glass panels of their office space watched us with sidelong glances as they went about their business. I guessed...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
1 likes
Cherry

Dade Simpson

By celticman on Sat, 19 Dec 2020

David (Dade) Simpson had been one of my best mates at school. But he hadn’t started that way. He’d challenged me to fight on our first days at the...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

george devine

By celticman on Sun, 20 Dec 2020

George Devine died before lockdown. He wouldn’t have known what it meant, or recognised it as a historical event of before and—I hadn’t seen him in...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

June Collins

By celticman on Mon, 21 Dec 2020

Tam Collin’s mum’s funeral was during lockdown. Tam was around the same age as me, so I guess that put her in her eighties. I knew Tam’s son too, Tam...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
2 likes
Cherry

Dav Prentice.

By celticman on Tue, 22 Dec 2020

I shouldn’t have laughed when I heard Dav Prentice was dead. We were talking about football in the Horse and Barge, but then Brendan took off on a...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Stevie Tait

By celticman on Sat, 26 Dec 2020

Morrisey sang The Last of the Famous International Playboys on the radio and I quickly turned it off. Some windows were blacked out with yellowing...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Tam McSwiggan

By celticman on Thu, 07 Jan 2021

Tam McSwiggan 1961-2001 R.I.P. When Tam was born Rangers’s supporters in the enclosure rioted and tore down the green, red, and white flag at Ibrox...
Historical Fiction
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Jim Welsh (Largactil) 13/3/1964—6/10/2012.

By celticman on Fri, 08 Jan 2021

I didn’t go to Jim Welsh’s funeral. I didn’t hear about it until later, and I think it was Sharpie that told me. I wasn’t upset, just sad about the...
Historical Fiction
Story
Certificate 12
1 likes
Cherry

Benny Hagen

By celticman on Sat, 09 Jan 2021

Press reports are structured like a triangle, the weight of information balanced on the first line. Nobody much called Benny Hagen, Bernard, until he...
Historical Fiction
Story
Certificate 12
1 likes
Gold cherry

Davie McCallum 1971-

By celticman on Sun, 10 Jan 2021

When Davie McCallum, aged 31, went missing on 28 th March 2003 his son David (junior) was aged five and about to start school. Now he’ll be twenty-...
Historical Fiction
Story
Certificate 12
1 likes
Cherry

Hamish Murdoch 1964-2007

By celticman on Tue, 12 Jan 2021

‘Hi-yah Hamish,’ the kids at the back lane used to shout at me as I wandered down off the canal path to buy a paper from the shop on Dumbarton Road...
Historical Fiction
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Stevie Mitchell 1966-2009

By celticman on Wed, 13 Jan 2021

The talk was Stevie Mitchell found a body down the canal when he was running, underneath the Erskine Bridge. Not all jumpers make the water. I know...
Historical Fiction
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

John Mitchell 1965—21st September 2020. RIP.

By celticman on Wed, 13 Jan 2021

I live in Dalmuir, but my brother who lives in Falkirk phoned me to tell me that John Mitchell was dead. Then the house phone went and my partner’s...
Historical Fiction
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Watsons and McNeil, drowning 25th August 1972.

By celticman on Thu, 14 Jan 2021

The boys that drowned in the nolly, Dalmuir canal, on 25 th August 1972, were much the same age as me. Children of the Cuban Missle Crisis. We went...
Historical Fiction
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Phyllis McFadden 1931-1986

By celticman on Sat, 16 Jan 2021

I was twenty-three when my Auntie Phyllis died. She was fifty-five. I’m older now than she was when she died. Back then, in 1986, I thought anyone...
Historical Fiction
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Pat Powell 1936—2014

By celticman on Tue, 19 Jan 2021

Pat Powell 1936—2014 My da was over ten years older than Old Pat, but I asked my da if he knew him, and he gave a shake of his head and glowered. He...
Historical Fiction
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

SEV 2

By celticman on Wed, 20 Jan 2021

My brother watched me playing for the Boy’s Guild on St Stephen’s gravel park. He stood under a tree with his mate Billy Quinn, both of them wearing...
Historical Fiction
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

SEV 3

By celticman on Thu, 21 Jan 2021

I was sixteen when I stole my brother, SEV’s, identity. I’d nipped into the lounge of the Glen Lusset and ordered a pint of lager. I was tall enough...
Historical Fiction
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

John Ferguson 1/12/1929—11/1/2020

By celticman on Fri, 22 Jan 2021

John Ferguson slipped me twenty-quid and I went to the Oasis, loosely termed a nightclub, with the cash. He was about five-foot-five tall, and he...
Historical Fiction
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

SEV 4

By celticman on Sat, 23 Jan 2021

I was still at school and watching Space 1999 on the telly, when SEV wafted into the living room stinking of booze and fag smoke. He slapped the back...
Historical Fiction
Story
Certificate 12
1 likes
Cherry

Ernie Platt 1940—2015

By celticman on Sun, 24 Jan 2021

Ernie Platt 1940—2015 Ernie was born in 1940. No football, no rugby, no golf, and the Scottish Grand National won by ‘no race run’, but at least...
Historical Fiction
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Damian, Damien and demons.

By celticman on Wed, 27 Jan 2021

Mum was aged thirty when she had me. She’d already lost her first-born son, which sounds like a form of carelessness, as if she’d put him in a reed...
Historical Fiction
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

The Omen

By celticman on Thu, 28 Jan 2021

Mum and Da weren’t to know that Damien would become synonymous with the devil. David Seltzer the screenwriter for supernatural horror The Omen ,...
Historical Fiction
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Uncle John and Jimmy.

By celticman on Sat, 13 Feb 2021

Da didn’t believe in noise. He’d be sitting at the grill with the wireless on the window making toast and listening to Radio Athlone. Even from the...
Historical Fiction
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

g81

By celticman on Thu, 18 Feb 2021

I lived in the armpits of the world, but it wasn’t like me to leave work early. I’d a good job at Boots the Chemist, with prospects, but my skin...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Sooz

By celticman on Sat, 03 Apr 2021

It all started as a bit of a joke. Eddie was toying with his cheesecake and having a smoke. His ginger hair had begun to retreat from his forehead...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Sooz 3

By celticman on Sun, 18 Apr 2021

Fatty Patty got quite a reputation on the rig, and Eddie got the nickname Fast Eddie because he had to play detective. Track her down, pronto. Hose...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Sooz 6

By celticman on Fri, 30 Apr 2021

On a three hour train journey, with drink involved and money on the table, fights broke out with the frequency of barroom brawls in The High...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Sooz 7

By celticman on Mon, 03 May 2021

Breaking into at trot at Partick Cross, a rumble of thunder and squall of rain followed Badger and Eddie as they crossed Dumbarton Road and pushed...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

Chris Alexander 1958-2009 RIP.

By celticman on Wed, 05 May 2021

Gordy reminded me of the time Chris Alexander got lifted. He’d been coming back from the Boilermakers on Dumbarton Road, Chris was always a smart...
Other Non-fiction
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

Sooz 9

By celticman on Sun, 09 May 2021

The best place for a walk in Clydebank was down by the Clydeside. Eddie could get out from under his wife’s feet and take a dander down to Cable...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
1 likes
Cherry

Archie McDougall 5/7/1958-12/5/2021. RIP.

By celticman on Thu, 13 May 2021

My brother, Bod, phoned to tell me Archie was dead. It was quick. I rolled out the platitudes. He was his pal, much more than mine. Archie only came...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

JOHN MCLACHLAN (Kojak) 1962-2011

By celticman on Sun, 23 May 2021

Tony Quinn opened the living-room window and shouted me into Kojak’s house on Lilac Avenue. It had one of those boxy silver wheelchair ramps taking...
Biography
Non-fiction
Certificate 12
Cherry

Penthouse

By celticman on Fri, 28 May 2021

‘Awright lads,’ Cooper’s da was bald with a booming voice. He shouted a derisory greeting as we dodged furniture in the living room. He’d the comfy...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry

You and Me—forever—Anne.

By celticman on Sun, 25 Jul 2021

You and Me—forever—Anne. Anne kept her eyes shut and waited for her number to be called. A whiff of cigarettes made her grimace, even though it was a...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

You and Me--forever--Donnie

By celticman on Mon, 02 Aug 2021

Donnie stretched himself out on the marital bed he’d once shared with Ann and stared at the ceiling. Waited for the pills to kick in. Smirnoff choked...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
Cherry
Story of the week

Sooz 11

By celticman on Mon, 16 Aug 2021

Eddie headed down to the Clydeside. A blue plastic bag cutting into his hand, clanging against his leg as he walked into the rain. Fatty Patty wedged...
Drama
Story
Certificate 18
1 likes
Cherry

What did Jesus do?

By celticman on Tue, 17 Aug 2021

Ian came in from the gym earlier than usual. ‘Guess what I saw or heard? Jesus has landed.’ I was sitting in my comfy chair reading The Snow Leopard...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
1 likes
Cherry

What did Jesus do? 2

By celticman on Sun, 22 Aug 2021

‘Jeez, wae the electricity, all the stuff in the freezer will go aff.’ Ian ran his fingers through his hair. And he pouted. His beard was patchy,...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Cherry

What did Jesus do? 3

By celticman on Tue, 24 Aug 2021

My dad used to tell everybody how smart I was. He used to show me off, tell me to memorise things like long poems that rhymed. (And that was no crime...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

What did Jesus do? 4

By celticman on Wed, 25 Aug 2021

Peter the Apostle brought a more to life than life attitude and his faith was like flying fish. He couldn’t sit on his arse for a minute. We lit a...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

Depression

By celticman on Sat, 28 Aug 2021

I am what I am not That’s what I’ve been taught The timekeeper in my head keeps each tick of the day He feeds me guilt pain on not going away, again...
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate 12
Cherry
Story of the week

Vermin

By celticman on Thu, 14 Oct 2021

The gaunt old man in the pinstripe suit hovers over the microphone and starts speaking in a strange accent before they are ready. ‘It’s a ridiculous...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
3 likes
Cherry

Glasgow's Necropolis

By celticman on Thu, 21 Oct 2021

I didn’t sleep that night. My wife clung to me in our bed and whispered to me not to go. She was pregnant. Her belly pushing against me, her smooth...
Drama
Story
Certificate U
1 likes
Cherry

The Rules of Leviticus.

By celticman on Sun, 24 Oct 2021

We had an extended breakfast. His eyes crinkled with laughter watching me make a pig of myself and eating for two. My eyes jerked open, when Etian...
Drama
Story
Certificate U
1 likes
Cherry

Cancer ward

By celticman on Mon, 01 Nov 2021

‘I’ll be back for lunch,’ I sat on the side of his bed and squeezed his hand—‘someone’s got to make sure you eat something.’ The two policemen...
Drama
Story
Certificate PG
1 likes
Cherry

You are not your illness.

By celticman on Fri, 05 Nov 2021

The girls left a heady brew of perfume behind. I poured Etian some water and he was well enough to sit up in bed and sip it. He began coughing and...
Drama
Story
Certificate PG
1 likes
Cherry
Story of the week

Tuesday Club

By celticman on Tue, 09 Nov 2021

The Tuesday Club wasn’t what it looked like, older men in short and sannies panting and out of breath after playing three-a-side fitba on the wooden...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
Gold cherry

Sometimes forever

By celticman on Tue, 18 Jan 2022

I wore a beanie beneath another two-tone wool hat. The colour of my hair was a snapshot of fashionable black and white. The Weird Fish logo and the...
Drama
Story
Certificate 15
1 likes

Tuesday Afternoon.

By celticman on Wed, 09 Feb 2022

Swat away the murky day Clasped hands upwards to pious heaven Exchange it for sniggering and hee-hawing Sharp hinterlands and hard-ons Feet that can...
Journal
Poem
Certificate PG
3 likes
Cherry

the eleven-minute bore.

By celticman on Thu, 17 Mar 2022

My jacket was in the bar. She’d little more than a blouse, with a red bra playing peek-a-boo. The wind cut through thin clothing and buffeted our...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
1 likes
Cherry

Ugly Puggly

By celticman on Sun, 10 Apr 2022

Agnes said, ‘Did you see The Clydebank Post ?’ ‘Nah, why would I?’ I shook my head. Sitting on the stairs, pulling on my work boots. A snarled lace,...
Drama
Story
Certificate PG
3 likes
Cherry

Ugly Puggly 2

By celticman on Wed, 13 Apr 2022

I waited until we were stranded between traffic lights on Great Western Road before I spoke. People thought Ugly Puggly was being ignorant, because...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
2 likes
Cherry

Ugly Puggly 3

By celticman on Thu, 14 Apr 2022

‘I’ll need to nip hame to get my Keycard,’ I told Ugly Puggly. He stared out of the window and said nothing. Drifting snow camouflaging the kerb...
Drama
Story
Certificate PG
2 likes
Cherry

Ugly Puggly 4

By celticman on Fri, 15 Apr 2022

Ugly Puggly closed his eyes, but I wasn’t sure he was asleep. We bounced along thin cobbled lanes, his thigh rubbing against the young lad's. He’d...
Drama
Story
Certificate PG
3 likes
Cherry

Ugly Puggly 6

By celticman on Tue, 19 Apr 2022

I fell asleep in the chair. The telly was on mute and a finger of whisky left in the bottle of Glayva. I’d slobbered down the middle of my dark...
Drama
Story
Certificate PG
4 likes
Cherry

Ugly Puggly 7

By celticman on Wed, 20 Apr 2022

Dave said with the kind of accent that rubbed your nose in wealth, ‘Makes you think.’ I hadn’t noticed that before. I didn’t care what he did with...
Drama
Story
Certificate PG
2 likes
Cherry

Ugly Puggly 8

By celticman on Thu, 21 Apr 2022

I took Agnes a sausage-roll for lunch. Seventy pence from Villa Bakery. You couldn’t beat that. She’d rolled out of her bed, and she wasn’t looking...
Drama
Story
Certificate PG
3 likes
Cherry

Ugly Puggly 9

By celticman on Fri, 22 Apr 2022

I wandered through to the kitchen. While the kettle was boiling, I picked out a mug from the debris in the sink. Tap water was boiling hot. I ducked...
Drama
Story
Certificate PG
1 likes
Cherry

Ugly Puggly 10

By celticman on Sat, 23 Apr 2022

I used to go to my local, three or four times a week. I caught the odd cry of ‘Hi, Jim,’ but that was from old timers like Jock. He didn’t wait for a...
Drama
Story
Certificate PG
1 likes
Cherry

Ugly Puggly 11

By celticman on Sun, 24 Apr 2022

The shopkeeper said he was very sorry to hear about Agnes. ‘Cheers,’ I could never mind his name. I’d called him Raj, when I was drunk and he smiled...
Drama
Story
Certificate PG
Cherry

Ugly Puggly 12

By celticman on Mon, 25 Apr 2022

Ugly Puggly was a surprisingly good cook. By that I meant he could do more that toast and beans. He baked his own bread and could even do vegetarian...
Drama
Story
Certificate PG
1 likes
Cherry

Ugly Puggly 13

By celticman on Tue, 26 Apr 2022

I was in the depot and it was near knocking-off time. So I was trying to look busy by opening and shutting the back of the van doors, and skulking...
Drama
Story
Certificate PG
2 likes
Cherry

Ugly Puggly 14

By celticman on Wed, 27 Apr 2022

Ugly Puggly’s room was messy and and stunk of urine and weak bleach. Clothes were piled on an unmade bed. A half-eaten bread roll in the bin. He...
Drama
Story
Certificate U
2 likes
Cherry

Ugly Puggly 15

By celticman on Thu, 28 Apr 2022

I couldn’t get the electricity to work. I tried everything but paying for it. Flinging my arm around Dave’s shoulder in a rough clutch, he turned his...
Drama
Story
Certificate PG
1 likes
Cherry

Ugly Puggly 17

By celticman on Sat, 30 Apr 2022

We balanced plates of linguine dappled with parmesan on our laps in the living room. Ugly Puggly sat in his armchair across from us and sipped green...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
3 likes
Cherry

Ugly Puggly 18

By celticman on Mon, 02 May 2022

Ugly Puggly was doing something with broad beans and peas, boiling them to death. ‘Whit have you got in the oven?’ I smacked my lips together, after...
Drama
Story
Certificate PG
3 likes
Cherry

Ugly Puggly 19

By celticman on Sat, 07 May 2022

The newsagent asked how my wife was doing, which put me on a downer. I guessed I was being racist, thinking Asian folk shouldn’t be trained to read...
Drama
Story
Certificate PG
4 likes
Cherry

Ugly Puggly 20

By celticman on Sun, 08 May 2022

Ugly Puggly’s garden may have been a death trap with all that broken glass running down the slope, and the turning frame of a windmill, but the...
Drama
Story
Certificate PG
3 likes
Cherry

Ugly Puggly 21

By celticman on Tue, 10 May 2022

Ugly Puggly was slicing his way through roof tiles with a long knife, with a sickle hook halfway down the blade. ‘Hi, watch whit yer daeing,’ Grey-...
Drama
Story
Certificate 12
2 likes
Cherry

Ugly Puggly 23

By celticman on Fri, 13 May 2022

Molly made macaroni and cheese, with a side dish of oven chips for dinner. I stared out the window. She sat snug at the table and played Candy Crush...
Drama
Story
Certificate PG
2 likes
Cherry

Ugly Puggly 24

By celticman on Sat, 21 May 2022

‘Whit’s this?’ I sniffed the plate Ugly Puggly put down on the table. Screwing up my eyes, I shook my head and prodded it with my fork. ‘It looks...
Drama
Story
Certificate PG
2 likes
Cherry

Ugly Puggly 25

By celticman on Sun, 22 May 2022

I came into the kitchen, yawning. ‘Whit’s that yer daeing?’ Ugly Puggly was up before me. His body slumped sideways, his eyes asked as he glanced up...
Drama
Story
Certificate PG
1 likes