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3 oz of Insanity

By Ewan on Tue, 15 Jul 2025

Mine weighs 3 oz +/-. I'm sure it weighs heavier on us all.

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Ego Trip

By Ewan on Wed, 11 Jun 2025

What it says ... Image author's own, made at canva.com from PD elements

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These Are The Lines

By Ewan on Thu, 05 Jun 2025

Not THE lines maybe ... some of them. The (mis)use of the homonym is deliberate.

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A Night Out on Castle Street

By Ewan on Wed, 28 May 2025

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396 of my comments have received 435 Great Feedback votes

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This is our Pick of the Day 5th September 2024

Posted on Tue, 03 Sep 2024

This first part of a ghostly tale with a sci-fi twist is our Pick of the Day.
Please, could all readers give it a plug on whatever social media you use?

Well done!

Posted in Ghostbot (Part One of Two)

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This is our Pick of the Day 29th August 2024

Posted on Sun, 25 Aug 2024

This continues to fascinate. Off-beat, original and anything but ordinary, that's why it's today's Pick of the Day. Please share on your preferred social media, all.

Posted in "Willow's Missing Tail" 16

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Congratulations! This is our Pick of the Day 20th February 2024

Posted on Tue, 20 Feb 2024

Taut, terse and intriguing, this is our pick of the day. Please share on whatever social media you use, fellow ABC-ers

Posted in New Directions (12)

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Congratulations! This is our Pick of the Day Friday 22 Dec 2023

Posted on Thu, 21 Dec 2023

Written like an 8-and-a-half-year-old Joyce - that's James Joyce, not Joyce Grenfell... Although... No seriously, folks, this captures the breathless jumble of thoughts, half-understood things, fears and hopes of almost any kid of that age....

Posted in Children of the Absolution

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Those that aren't too far

Posted on Tue, 24 Oct 2023

on the other side of dementia's curtain can be good company. My dad just shrank away to nothing at all, really. After my dad died, it hit my mum with full force - couldn't tell the time, didn't know what day it was, hiding things. None of which...

Posted in Message From The Care Home Front

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Congratulations! This is today's Pick of the Day 23rd Aug 2023

Posted on Tue, 22 Aug 2023

Congratulations. Evokes a time and a place with great skill and that's why it's our pick of the day.

Part One is here if you haven't read it. ...

Posted in Steve Mason and the Last Day of School (Part Two of Two)

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This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day

Posted on Sun, 02 Oct 2022

A slice of history, almost 40 years ago. I was in uniform then, Air Force blue, but admired those at Faslane and Greenham. Futile in the end, but what days of innocence and belief.
Please share and/or retweet this excellent depiction of a...

Posted in A Break in the Clouds - my Memories of living at Faslane Peace Camp back in August 1983

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This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day

Posted on Fri, 22 Jul 2022

Succinct and vivid, this poem takes you there, and that's why it's our Pick of the Day.

Congratulations!

Please, dear readers, share and/or retweet on SM

Posted in Bed and Board by The Silk Road

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Love this so far,

Posted on Wed, 20 Apr 2022

Jack.
I do have one quibble. Ugly Puggly's last two bits of dialogue are a bit didactic. Whilst the sentiment behind the words is true, it comes over as a little authorial, even though the words come out of UP's mouth. This:

"we can'...

Posted in Ugly Puggly 7

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This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day

Posted on Mon, 14 Mar 2022

A splendid depiction of ourselves as a parasitic blight on Gaia itself. Skilfully done and with possibly the first use of 'Agrestal' I've ever seen in a poem.
Please share and or retweet this splendid poem if you can.