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The Animal Within
There's nothing like a bottom to make you smile. But if it opens its mouth, run a mile. Very useful if you want to sit a while. But one way or...
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- 465 reads
Golden Memories: Another Weird Guy
I may have described this chap before and, if so, please feel free to fast forward. One of many local eccentrics in the 1970's, he was curiously torn...
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Eulogy
It’s cold. Extremely cold. It’s weirdly dark and the last thing I remember was laughing. You know when you die people say you see a beautiful white...
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- 265 reads
Foxed!

Rohan and India are taking the air at TURN Education
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I Accidentally Killed My Son

Last Summer, I accidentally killed my baby son. When I learned what happened, I screamed "What have I done?!" I carry a burden and my very soul has...
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You're Doing Great

From the moment my wife’s waters broke, I knew I had some serious shit to sort out. It was Wednesday morning and I’d just come home from walking the...
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The All Night Cafe
The All Night Café by Paul McCann Grindlewizers café was a popular spot in the city . It was open all night and people came from everywhere to enjoy...
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A Field Mouse Orchestra.
The message came through to Tom late afternoon, brought by a nervous and out of breath junior field mouse, it was from the senior field mouse and it...
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Slugs, Snails and Puppy Dog Tales!

Some of you may remember that I published some stories, originally written as bedtime stories for my grandson, that involved the two dogs at TURN Education (Packham and India) trying to make sense of their world. Amongst the things that they encountered were moving house and starting again somewhere entirely new, the arrival of all sorts of other animals, including ducks and donkeys, and latterly trying to understand what the pandemic was all about. Sadly, these stories had to come to an end when Packham became unexpectedly ill and died within a few days, leaving us all in shock. I haven't been able to write much more (other than a Christmas story) because India no longer had anyone to talk to, until now...
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Lightning Bolt

A man was too drunk to give his son a ride. Lightning struck his only son and he died. He drank too much and his son had to walk to his friend's...
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- 241 reads