Autobiography

Cherry

Distilled

Distilled At 23 I sat on a Ronda balcony watching a crane toil through a Spanish day with nothing but bad lager and a good friend. Propped up by a...

Golden Memories: Coal Fires

In our class at school, very few kids could boast a telephone, fitted carpets, or central heating in their home Only one or two had parents with cars...
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I Dance With The Ghosts. Falklands 1982. Falklands eight.

I Dance With The Ghosts. Falklands 1982 Falklands eight. I dance with the ghosts Of those long past I can’t remember their names I just know that...
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I didn’t take that picture

I didn’t take that picture through the hospital window. The one with the sign in the background, neon-green and sickly. The one with the airplane...
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Part 4: A Remembrance of Things Past

Later that night and after I had been successfully stitched together, mum sobbed. “Josef, I want to go home”. She had had enough and she meant it.

Zen is Unnerving

So I've reached complete - Zen - a few times. Often by accident. Once in the shower. Going about my habitual but somewhat conscious hand movements...

So I Hit Him.... Nature or Nurture

“So I hit him”! Catchphrase For the family. Dad hits lad, Lad hits anyone. Say the wrong word, Go on I fucking dare you! What did you say? So I...
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To Have Known You

Dear diary: after dreaming of a friend I once knew, this memory of 1972 came back to me. Monday 11th January 2021. Long lost friend I dreamed of you...

Mouth Rape and Alien Fashion Choices 3

When I finally met the dentist, or the one who was going to pull my tooth, I have to say that my initial reaction was not of him being highly...

Mouth Rape and Alien Fashion Choices 2

It was only about twenty minutes between the last Alien message I had sent to the group, and the next: What kind of asshole majors in xenomorphology...