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StoryBoiled, Deep-fried, Steamed and Mashed LeiWar105 years 8 months ago
StoryThe Maulter: Part 4-Riddlebrook ArcaneEagle77665 years 8 months ago
Storynew dog for old celticman125 years 8 months ago
StoryThe Human Touch: Chapter One Sooz00665 years 8 months ago
StoryBee eaters onemorething115 years 8 months ago
StoryNineteen and the Mermaids ralph45 years 8 months ago
StoryThe Envy of Footprints Robert Craven65 years 8 months ago
StoryRather than trying to behave and not feel our rage or rather than using it to burn down every living thing in a hundred mile radius it is better to first ask rage to take a seat with us. mcmanaman25 years 8 months ago
StoryBluebottle onemorething95 years 8 months ago
StoryTrue Stories (Part 1 of 2) rosaliekempthorne45 years 8 months ago
StoryTrue Stories (Part 2 or 2) rosaliekempthorne55 years 8 months ago
StoryI Can Never Say Sorry… drew4payne55 years 8 months ago
Storydiminuendo JupiterMoon75 years 8 months ago
StoryCome Sunday ralph35 years 9 months ago
StoryTormentors' Just Desserts b15 years 9 months ago
StoryA Portrait in Gouache luigi_pagano65 years 9 months ago
StoryRowntree's Park Parson Thru125 years 9 months ago
StoryThe Green Ladies: Part 9-The Argentavis ArcaneEagle77625 years 9 months ago
StoryWinner Of The National Confession Award, 1990 sean mcnulty25 years 9 months ago
StoryNewsworthy rosaliekempthorne25 years 9 months ago
StoryBottle of Woodford Parson Thru205 years 9 months ago
StoryThe Free Market (Part 2) johnshade65 years 9 months ago
StoryTales from the Psych Ward - Part 1 Lem155 years 9 months ago
StoryYou Wouldn't Call It An Earthquake Exactly sean mcnulty105 years 9 months ago
StoryAfter Gyles' Quay sean mcnulty45 years 9 months ago

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My stories

Don Quixote

It would be difficult to write an amusing blog about mass suicide so I won’t even try.

Me and Mickie James Cover

This week I received the cover for ‘Me and Mickie James’. I was surprised. I was expecting a picture. Instead it is covered in writing, front and back. Also it’s black.

National Year of Reading 2008

This year is the National Year of Reading . (That’s reading as in reading books, not Reading as in the town outside London.

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.

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310 of my comments have received 333 Great Feedback votes

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Agree with the above and I

Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020

Agree with the above and I mentioned before that we live in strange times when what would have been fiction is now our reality. The clip I love too... the words all the more poignant than ever. Someone at work said to me yesterday that when all...

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I liked this - quickly sets

Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020

I liked this - quickly sets the scene, and I like the way it pans out with the phone call. Couple of tiny things. 'fuck you quickly' needs some punctuation. Because I just read it as 'fuck you quickly'. An exclamation mark after 'fuck'? ...

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It's a great first line.

Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020

It's a great first line. Because everything builds and develops from there. 

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Posted in Starling

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Completely brilliant. A

Posted on Sat, 28 Mar 2020

Completely brilliant. A procession of unusual, startling images that have absolute clarity in their absurdity. And I've seen the wolves, they're at the end of the pier, dancing a slow waltz while sucking on popsicles. 

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Agree with all of the above.

Posted on Fri, 27 Mar 2020

Agree with all of the above. Inspired concise storytelling. Fabulous. And it would make a great little film in itself. 

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Posted in Dundee

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Enjoyed this. 

Posted on Mon, 23 Mar 2020

Enjoyed this. 

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Posted in School's Out(ish)!

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I would love someone to

Posted on Mon, 23 Mar 2020

I would love someone to 'weave sunbeams' and 'streak radioactive across purpled midnights'. What lovely words. 

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Posted in If You Were A Comet

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Beautiful and sad. Drew. 

Posted on Sun, 22 Mar 2020

Beautiful and sad. Drew. 

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Posted in He Knew

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I did!

Posted on Sun, 22 Mar 2020

I did!

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Posted in Deimos

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A really beautiful poem for

Posted on Sun, 22 Mar 2020

A really beautiful poem for our times. 

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