Agnethe:Abba and After BBC 1, 10.35pm.

I grew up with Abba. I know that’s kind of sad, I wasn’t a rock- and- roll- wild child, into heavy metal, or even a Satanist. I listened to the charts on the radio, but not religiously. The first album I ever thought about buying was ‘Bat Out of Hell’ and it had been Number 1 for about 50 weeks and I had to ask who the singer was. I was so uncool I watched the Eurovision Song Contest and I remember Abba winning it with Waterloo. Abba have sold...

A dweller on the threshold

After breakfast the doors were opened and it was as one man stumble stumble trip all fall down. All over the grounds littered like corpses patients were lying around sleeping on the lawns.

A Man Chooses; A Slave Obeys - Chapter Four: Part Two

Trying out shorter sections to see if anyone prefers that. Any feedback would be more than welcome.

Tortuously delicate embraces

It had been less than two weeks since he had slammed down his pint showering me in coruscating petals

A Man Chooses; A Slave Obeys - Chapter Four: Part One

“Hey Paulie, d'you remember much that happened last night? I still can't see much.” Vinny and Paulie were sat on a bench in Arcadia enjoying the fresh air and getting a bite to eat.

Betty Lou

Let me tell you about a story that's certainly true. It's about a lady who was named Betty Lou. She went to school with my uncle and was the mother-in-law of another uncle of mine.

Low Land (2): Iffley Meadows, South Oxford

I don’t often do a full circuit of the Meadows. Most often, my route is down the riverbank with my family to the Isis pub/café.
Cherry

Too Much Sky - Prologue

Something old I never finished editing that I forgot to post. maybe the beginning of a novel, I'm not sure.

Tom

He was too quick for Jenny; rushing to get the oranges that spun; like orange suns in the gutter. She was thinking of the bills she still needed to pay.
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Ode to a Stickleback and Romanticism

Trackback Pseudopod is – probably – the least well-known of all the Romantic poets, even though to his contemporaries, his 'Ode to a Stickleback' was one of the best known poems of the time, even

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