Autobiography
Trips Down Memory Lane Before The World Falls Apart by Alfred N.Muggins
28/11/23 Alfred had typically been far too busy watching the tragic and desperate news from the (not so?) Holy Land, and commenting on and sharing...
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Upcoming Self-Published Collection: In This Village
Hi all! So, I've been writing here since 2018, when I was 18 years old. I vividly remember picking up a copy of Salems' Lot by Stephen King earlier...
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The escape artist
Budgies don't sing but a happily chit-chatter hopping around all the time chatting pleasantly very much like sparrows. A brain as big as half a pea a...
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Strange Days

This is a piece that didn't make it into the very unreliable Berlin memoir 'In the Mouth of the Bear'. (Available on the 'Zon, in big writing). It's just descriptive, it's not really about anything, so I left it out.
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Superstition

Superstition Jennifer Pickup 04.04.2024 I always believed in the old wives’ tales, Blamed them for every one of my life fails: You didn’t perform the...
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* Silver Spiral Stairway *
A dweller on the threshold Strange Places Out Patients The Doctor A full force gale Nkosi Bayete! ~ Precious Time Living Alone Private Psychiatric...
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Above Peterchurch, east of the Black Mountains

30/3/24 Clear lovely views of the Black mountains as we travelled west to Peterchurch [in the Golden Valley – the river Dore, thought of as D'or, 'of...
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Before Good Friday In Belfast
Before Good Friday In Belfast By Paul McCann’ I was just a lad when things turned bad in Belfast like a lamb at the gate in 1968 . There were too...
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The Dance Halls We Once Knew
The Dance Halls We Once Knew By Paul McCann It started with the hop and ended as discos’ Kids on the streets of my town were kept on their toes We...
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Brutal Honesty
The staff union president and also my supposedly personal mentor, sat down in my office “I am going to be brutally honest with you”, “Some of your...
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