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StoryA Moment To Ponder skinner_jennifer122 months 2 weeks ago
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StoryOur Old Girl… Remembering Coral Turlough212 months 2 weeks ago
StoryElected!: Alfred Muggins Considers Entering American Politics! David Kirtley22 months 3 weeks ago
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StoryOut of Africa Tom Brown32 months 3 weeks ago
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StoryMrs Muggins Goes On a Mini Tour of Italy, While the Butcher and the Clown Meet in Alaska! by Alfred N.Muggins David Kirtley43 months 19 hours ago
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StoryThat all-important molecule! Rhiannonw153 months 3 days ago

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Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (3)

Part two at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/prophesy-immortal-witch-2 Marie’s mother was standing at the front door as the car pulled up...
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Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (2)

Part one at: https://www.abctales.com/story/marandina/prophesy-immortal-witch-1 Marie Tudor was a single parent who needed to work to make ends meet...
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Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (1)

Night sounds permeate woods, a nocturnal topography spot-lit silver by a diaphanous moon. Cumulus clouds drift silently, pregnant with seasonal...
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The Fox and the Siamese

Life can be pure magic sometimes. The Fox and the Siamese Another rocket hit a building, a mushroom cloud billowing across my television screen,...
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Cherry

A Move to Bleadon Hill

A Move to Bleadon Hill Bleak factories billowing smoke, steel towers industrial sentinels amid seas of concrete and glass; all of this now salient -...
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Ukraine and Gaza both

Posted on Fri, 14 Nov 2025

Ukraine and Gaza both difficult situations. Putin won't take a back step and Gaza borders on being intractable. Not sure where it will all end.

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Posted in Easter 2025 by Alfred N.Muggins (Rogue Reporter (please don’t shoot me, I’m only the armchair journalist))

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This melancholy instalment is

Posted on Wed, 22 Oct 2025

This melancholy instalment is poetically soulful in its urban bleakness. 

It is today's Facebook, X/Twitter and BlueSky Pick of the Day.

I have added a pic to promote your work on social media. Just let me know if you prefer to use...

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Anything that mentions

Posted on Tue, 21 Oct 2025

Anything that mentions Fathers Ted Crilly and Jack Hackett from the eponymous and outstandingly wonderful comedy series is just grand by me.

Well I think I've spent most of the afternoon reading the first four parts in this travelogue....

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You have certainly captured

Posted on Sun, 12 Oct 2025

You have certainly captured the essence of the time, Jenny. A poem sepia-stained in lore and tradition.

Fine work indeed. 

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Posted in Floki's Viking Spirit

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I don't think Alfred is

Posted on Fri, 10 Oct 2025

I don't think Alfred is boring at all. Maybe Trumpenstein's vainglorious pursuit of the Nobel Peace Prize *is*. 

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Posted in Rogue Reporter Comes Under Censorship From An Unexpected Quarter (The Home Front!) by Alfred.N.Muggins

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This is today's Facebook, X

Posted on Wed, 08 Oct 2025

This is today's Facebook, X/Twitter and BlueSky Pick of the Day.

I've added a pic to promote your work on social media. Please let me know if you prefer to use something else.

Congratulations. 

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That's an intense instalment

Posted on Tue, 07 Oct 2025

That's an intense instalment and quite a cliff hanger.

Keep going, Penny!

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The USA - the land of

Posted on Sun, 28 Sep 2025

The USA - the land of conspiracy theories. I don't suppose we'll ever get to the truth of a lot of things. Whilst Alfred could lay low, I suspect the lure of investigative roving reporting will be too strong for him!

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Posted in Is America Coming Here? (Sleepwalkers?) by rogue reporter Alfred N.Muggins

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An enigma posed adriotly.

Posted on Sat, 04 Oct 2025

An enigma posed adriotly.

I don't know the answer but I'm sure someone will be along shortly to solve it.

Nicely done, Rhiannon. 

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Posted in Who am I?

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You often explore the dark

Posted on Tue, 16 Sep 2025

You often explore the dark underbelly of the corporate jungle with insight and cynicism, Mark. The fragments you describe are familiar especially the verbal waterboarding that goes on around missed sales targets and weak pipelines. 

[Where...

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