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For Whom The Bell Tolls (The Centre Seethes)
At The Bell, summoned by the toxic tocsin of click-bait, hot-take pseudo-politics, proud under flags and banners emblazoned with broken English...
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Friendship
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Test
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Put Out Fewer Flags
All too obvious, no doubt, but here it is anyway.
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3 oz of Insanity
Mine weighs 3 oz +/-. I'm sure it weighs heavier on us all.
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As regards
Posted on Mon, 28 Jul 2025
finding a home for this, submission-wise, I wish you luck. It's quirkily funny, well written, and possibly perfect for Punch, circa 1975 (Not a bad thing at all).
7 years ago, in 2018, The Wodehouse prize for Comic Novel of the Year...
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I forgot to point out that
Posted on Sat, 14 Jun 2025
one of the reasons this resonated so much with me is that something similar happened to me only a month ago :
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This is our Pick of the Day, 22nd January 2025
Posted on Wed, 22 Jan 2025
If ever I need to raise a smile, I know that reading about Ned's Bar will do it for me. Do please share this to your socials so that others can appreciate one of ABC's most individual and idiosyncratic humo(u)rists, Hudson Moon.
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Congratulations, this is our Pick of the Day, 18th November 2024
Posted on Mon, 18 Nov 2024
A very serious subject dealt with in an intelligent yet wryly humorous way.
Cannot praise it highly enough, and that's why it's our pick of the day today.
PLEASE SHARE on your socials if you can. all.
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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!
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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.
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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
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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....
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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...
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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. ...
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