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Worst Case Scenario - Being Peter To Save Paul (Part Three)

By G M Backland on Sat, 22 Nov 2025

‘I quit this, I quit the trip. I go home. I work a string of meaningless jobs. Eventually I quit those too, and somehow manage to quit all the way to...
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Worst Case Scenario - Being Peter To Save Paul (Part Two)

By G M Backland on Sat, 09 Aug 2025

His world was falling apart. Everything he knew to be true, everything he believed in and was certain of, was a lie. What was the world coming to,...
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Worst Case Scenario - Being Peter To Save Paul (Part One)

By G M Backland on Sun, 20 Jul 2025

“Thing is mate, you do your day's work and get $80-100 dollars easy - that covers yeh sack and grub, the rest goes on yeh piss, know what I mean? ”...
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Thanks Di!

Posted on Sat, 22 Nov 2025

Thanks Di!

Glad to be of service! Is it hard to believe that this story was probably the high point of my working holiday in Australia? I've still got nearly drowning (twice), surviving a car crash on my first driving lesson, nearly...

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I had planned to have it done

Posted on Sat, 22 Nov 2025

I had planned to have it done and finished a while ago, but wasn't able to nail the ending and so had to wonder off for a bit. I appreciate the comments and support throughout :)

Now, on to the next one! 
 

Ged 

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Thanks for reading and for

Posted on Sat, 09 Aug 2025

Thanks for reading and for such warm feedback :) 

In the day and age of superhero stories being common place, I think it's only fair to speak out for the inadequate! We turn up, we mess up, we turn up again! 

Thanks again :)...

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Thanks for reading! I went to

Posted on Sat, 09 Aug 2025

Thanks for reading! I went to Australia looking to find myself, but all I found was that terrible funny truth you mentioned 

I ended up in New Zealand a few years later and found even more of it there...

So, no... in no rush to...

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