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Time Wrestling (observing a frail woman in a care home).
Breathing lightly floating in limbo Laughing to yourself no one can hear From your window you see Other people’s history They grow slower than you...
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The Debt Collecter Calls
Through the curtains she saw the undistinguishable saloon car pull up outside her neighbours’ house this was a ploy by the debt collector, the...
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The Rhyming Ballad of Sam Cantorelli
Sam Cantorelli was half Italian ‘my half was the legs’ he once said, he was a very fast runner with a face that was always red. His mother shouted...
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The Alfred Muggins' Diaries : June 2026 Part 2 : Journeys To and From Manchester!
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26/6/26 As you may be able to tell Alfred has been listening to a lot of his old favourite Beatles records again this last week, which has brought a...
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The Alfred Muggins' Diaries : June 2026 Part 1 : Trumpy's Search For Peace, and The World Cup
26/6/2026 Sitting in an English Garden, not waiting for the sun to shine, for the sun has been here all day and they are all in the middle of, or...
Tell them I am Queen now - a short story
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Tell them I am Queen now - a short story The old king, Aethelrod, wasn't stirring. He sat on the throne in faded tattered ermine. His gaze was...
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Unfathomable Silence
Unfathomable Silence. by MarciaMarcia Above full moon stands firm In demanding presence Below, tumultuous waves crash against rocks as if with...
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What Will The World (or America!) Be like In Another 4 Years? by Alfred N.Muggins
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27/5/26 The fourth anniversary of the major Russian (Putin-led) invasion of Ukraine was celebrated by Trumpenstein's major attack on Iran, in...
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Danny ‘Moonshine’ was nineteen once / a short story
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Daniel Bradley was a porter in a city centre hospital for a year before he was sacked. He never challenged his dismissal. Bradley was part of a pool...
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The Brothers
He tied the knot tight around his brother's wrists and thread the rope through the loop and pulled it tighter again. It took only a few moments for...
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