Autobiography
Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Christmas (i)
Another excerpt from my book about my time as mum's full-time carer during her last months of life. She confounded medical expectations by not only...
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I lit a thin green candle
I remember when my half-sister came to stay, seven years older than me and full of energy, like a whirlwind dropping into the quiet rhythm of our...
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Day Dreaming at Night
Just a few desultory observations from recent days. Storm Cuddly caused widespread damage and injury, but one plucky reporter from Bonkers TV stood...
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The Better Bargain!
Full river – soothing progress steady slow gentle ripples in the flow clear waters: still and quiet all around — not like the ‘Saturday Black Friday...
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Her and Me
Her and Me We are here now, Her and me Near lifeless, almost broken Only one will recover Repuzzled from these shards Recaptured from remnants Only...
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Saltburn - A Publishing Journey
Saltburn. I started Saltburn here on ABCTales in the first week of 2020. In February 2025 it’s going to be published. This is the story. I’m usually...
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Drunk
Have you ever been drunk, and submersed in a funk, as if trapped in a trunk but then asked to write junk in a poem which stunk though your mind has...
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Boško’s Clouds
You never know what might happen when you delve into an old plastic ice cream tub.
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Seaside Reverie
It's nice to see the sea. Pity it's full of wee. And to park the car, there is a fee. Plenty of flowers, but no bee. Lots of people, full of glee...
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Running the Gauntlet : Paranoid and Harrassed In The City Of His Birth! By Alfred N.Muggins
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1/7/24 (events of about.2 weeks before, a Friday in June 2024) Alfred set off to town (technically still a city, although you wouldn’t necessarily...