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One Long Front Passing Through A Life
Wam rain arrives like a hand over the eyes...
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The Empty Chair
(A late attempt at last week's inspiration point.)
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Friends Reunited
The pub smelled of stale beer, cigarette smoke and Shake’n’Vac. The kind of pervasive smell that had clung to its fake timbers for more than three...
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The Ruin Of Many A Poor Boy
... and god... I know... I'm one...
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The Faithful
The host resumed her script. “Before you leave, please reveal if you are a Faithful... or a Traitor.”
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It must have been convincing.
Posted on Sun, 04 Feb 2018
It must have been convincing.
I was distracted by a couple of members of the audience looking at their phones during my performance.
Am I being that boring or self indulgent? I wondered.
Turned out they were Googling me and...
Read full commentPosted in 'The Wages of Sin', Unplugged
Mythical England?
Posted on Fri, 02 Oct 2026
It's interesting how readers interpret a piece of fiction.
John is not meant to be a sympathetic character.
During the course of the story, he encounters what appear to be 5 mythical presences that have been imported from other...
Read full commentPosted in "This Isn't England"
Yes, 'Britishness' is a fluid
Posted on Fri, 11 Sep 2026
Yes, 'Britishness' is a fluid and artificial concept. It's basically a collective name the Romans gave to the disparate Celtic tribes when all their fighting age men came here in their small boats.
The Beaker People were here first. They...
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Jukeboxes in pubs started to
Posted on Mon, 04 May 2026
Jukeboxes in pubs started to appear in the 1950s, but only in establishments that wanted a 'modern' image and to attract a younger clientele. (In a later decade, the Greyhound even had a disco that I used to frequent.) However, during this period...
Read full commentPosted in "Answer Me"
Broke my own rule!
Posted on Sat, 02 May 2026
Broke my own rule!
Deleted all but the first quote which surely qualifies as fair use.
(Don't confuse it with the song made famous by Hendrix, it's not the same one.)
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The nurse has checked with
Posted on Sat, 28 Mar 2026
The nurse has checked with her metal comb...
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This is the first part of a
Posted on Fri, 13 Mar 2026
This is the first part of a long-term series I've been planning for years. Each story will be a self contained vignette. With minor exceptions, there will be no repeating characters or narrative through-line. It is a combination of memory,...
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'Ten years since Live Aid'
Posted on Tue, 10 Mar 2026
'Ten years since Live Aid'
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The timeline is a bit fluid
Posted on Tue, 03 Mar 2026
The timeline is a bit fluid but that's not a bad guesstimate. Part 1 was post-glam pub rock about 1975, part 2 obviously 1976-7. This part alludes to Jon Foxx's Ultravox and Gary Numan's Tubeway Army, so post punk and pre new wave. Danny seems to...
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This was actually supposed to
Posted on Wed, 25 Feb 2026
This was actually supposed to have been a violent political thriller but Google took exception to my parameters when I was researching how an ordinary person would obtain a weapon and plan an assassination. (I'm probably flagged on a government...
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