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As If!

There was a quote at the end of the Start the Week podcast. Q. “Why are you not unhappy?" A.

A New Year Message

For the past three days I have been editing the final chapter of ‘The Penguin Variations’. So I am finishing it as the year ends. It’s been a good year.

A Christmas Message

I was at friend’s house the other day and he informed me that some of his friends had recently purchased themselves an oil-less deep fat fryer for Christmas.

The Writer is in...

The writer is in. Do you remember those scenes from Charlie Brown? Lucy is the dr, she has a wooden booth, and Charlie Brown goes to visit her.
Cherry

Seasons End

My top 10 books of the year.

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302 of my comments have received 322 Great Feedback votes

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Me too, the surprising things

Posted on Fri, 24 Apr 2020

Me too, the surprising things, sex in the library, and the bicycle stuff. 

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I loved the doctor image to.

Posted on Wed, 22 Apr 2020

I loved the doctor image too. For the record. 

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Mouse trap and Hardy Boys

Posted on Tue, 14 Apr 2020

Mouse trap and Hardy Boys book. Loved them both. 
 

You could have him going around the whole town then you'd have a novel right there - like that book of micro stories of every passenger on a tube train. 
 

 

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I enjoyed reading this too

Posted on Sat, 11 Apr 2020

I enjoyed reading this too this morning. 

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This beautiful story of

Posted on Sat, 11 Apr 2020

This beautiful story of finding common ground between species / beings is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day!  Please do share/retweet if you enjoy it too.  

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Agreed. A ray of hope. 

Posted on Wed, 08 Apr 2020

Agreed. A ray of hope. 

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Glisk and glassiness work so

Posted on Mon, 06 Apr 2020

Glisk and glassiness work so well together. 
 

As Thom Gunn said, One is always nearer by not keeping still. 

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Love it. Congratulations. 

Posted on Sun, 22 Mar 2020

Love it. Congratulations. 

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The poem is sentimental in

Posted on Thu, 02 Apr 2020

The poem is sentimental in the best possible way. I love the move from whale to herring (and its sorrow) to us. It is comparable to Philip Pullman's way of describing death. We become dust, part of the atmosphere. Or here, of the sea. Wonderful...

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Another really brilliant

Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020

Another really brilliant first line - so unusual an image. And your poem fits perfectly with the picture. 

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