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Blog entryHappiness is a warm keyboard=I live to and love to write Penny4athought22 hours 33 min ago
StorySparkly Little Paula Jane Hyphen166 hours 14 min ago
StoryThe Plan part one blighters rock57 hours 18 min ago
StoryWindfall. celticman07 hours 28 min ago
StoryCancelled in the afterlife blighters rock107 hours 42 min ago
StoryMore Elaines Turlough1712 hours 50 min ago
StoryLove Returned D G Moody1513 hours 5 min ago
StoryMissed You. celticman615 hours 55 min ago
StoryFalling marandina1618 hours 28 min ago
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Forum topicMarketing (ha ha) Ewan131 day 5 hours ago
StoryHurricane force twelve Mentalelf61 day 10 hours ago
Blog entryFrank Warren (2005) PostSecret. celticman01 day 11 hours ago
Forum topicThe Academic Hospital Baker Street71 day 12 hours ago
Story"Good Morning" Penny4athought161 day 14 hours ago
Blog entryDescending the Mountain (2021) Directed by Maartje Nevejan celticman61 day 16 hours ago
StoryTwo kinds of crying : 15th February 2024 Di_Hard232 days 6 hours ago
StoryThe End - part 2 jeand152 days 12 hours ago
StoryI didn't know how much I'd come to love you Magnolia Fay72 days 14 hours ago
Blog entryWorld Book Day 07.03.24 *My talk at Drogheda Grammar School, Ireland Robert Craven22 days 16 hours ago
StoryParcel for you...Part 21 Jane Hyphen183 days 5 hours ago
StoryMuscle memory lavadis123 days 10 hours ago
StoryThe Road to Erehwon Ewan113 days 10 hours ago
StoryLooking Ewan33 days 11 hours ago
Blog entrySebastian Barry (2009) The Secret Scripture. celticman04 days 8 hours ago

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My stories

Windfall.

We had a great interest in ghosts, prompted by a fear of being called a shitebag for turning down a dare when we were younger. In a less than spooky...
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Missed You.

My junkie girlfriend sold her body to feed her habit. ‘I’m no doing any harm,’ she said. ‘I sold myself tae you. Look how that fucking worked oot?’ I...
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Tilly cut loose from the day

Tilly cut loose from the day Brightness like a red balloon Utterances dumbstruck with gravity Details don’t matter Holding onto her giggling A...
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Uncle John's Popemobile.

Black specks were moving on the stacked plates of uneaten leftovers and the casual smears of a man that had tried to tidy up. Casualties lay on the...
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Sweaty

Sweaty was jumpy. He reached for a wrench. Rubbed grit from the window and squinted his one good eye to look through plastic into the yard. Neither...
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tragic, like you I don't have

Posted on Sat, 01 Dec 2018

tragic, like you I don't have an answer. Poverty, not morals is the key. We use the latter as a scapegoat, a standared practice by, for example, Jenhovah Witnesses to get a foot in the door, is to say how much worse the world is getting. They've...

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Posted in When Death Comes Too Soon

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I suppose we all end up with

Posted on Mon, 26 Feb 2024

I suppose we all end up with a woman (or man) we've only know a short while. I guess we'll fall back on they were a different generation. We're a different generation too. Perhaps if we write it down that'll help?

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Posted in Muscle memory

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I shaved my dad before he

Posted on Mon, 26 Feb 2024

I shaved my dad before he died. Lived with him and worked with him. Never knew him. The strange thing is my sisters say I'm the dead spit of him. hmmmm. 

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Posted in Muscle memory

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an epidemic of homelessness.

Posted on Tue, 19 Dec 2023

an epidemic of homelessness. normalised. 

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Posted in 6:26am Train

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The next BBC Open Call

Posted on Tue, 31 Oct 2023

The next BBC Open Call submission window will be open between 12 noon on Tuesday 7th November 2023 and 12 noon on Tuesday 5th December 2023.

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Posted in Parcel for you....Part 6

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ah words sometimes fall short

Posted on Sat, 21 Oct 2023

ah words sometimes fall short, but you have risen to the challenge of raising the dead to something like remembrance. 

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Posted in Mother-tongue

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I hope we're swinging  back

Posted on Sat, 29 Jul 2023

I hope we're swinging  back into the light. Maybe not yet, Maybe not ever. But the hope sings in your poem. 

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Posted in "Murky Waters"

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I guess we all see worthless

Posted on Mon, 01 May 2023

I guess we all see worthless coins sometimes. but to trade them for words and poetry is to create a new currency. 

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Posted in The thought of it

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death has a way or reminding

Posted on Fri, 27 Jan 2023

death has a way or reminding us not to eat sweaty cheese. 

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Posted in end of the pier

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it's a dog's life, but

Posted on Fri, 09 Dec 2022

it's a dog's life, but sometimes it isn't. The transmigration of the soul takes many forms (so we're told). Why not a dog? Or a cat? Or a Tory? Too far, sorry. 

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Posted in The Last Wish of Christmas

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