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The Way We Heard. Love Was All Around Us.
Love was all around us, apparently. Four Weddings and a Funeral. The Wets had been number 1 for so long, the bass drummed through the brickwork and...
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Borrowed time
Let go of the week Let go of the work And find yourself alone Free of judgement An epiphany of reflection Mostly self-serving deflections Letting go...
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Boomtown
Podge clutched at the soft fitting on the chair and it helped pull himself upright. Glanced at the pints and tumblers on their table and lifted a...
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Head scratching.
The One Who Must Choose In some traditions (Norse, Slavic, Celtic), fate is flexible. The naked dreamer stands at a crossroads, exposed but empowered...
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McCann case 5
She tugged the high-viz a little over her big belly as they walked back. A rattle in his throat. He dropped back a step, holding a hand up to show he...
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you made the crooked road run
Posted on Sun, 12 Apr 2026
you made the crooked road run straight. Crime doesn't pay. Or so they say.
Read full commentPosted in Penny's Pass The Story - Part 10.
I certainly don't know what
Posted on Thu, 09 Apr 2026
I certainly don't know what to say. Which is a worry. Best just shoot somebody?
Read full commentPosted in "Pass the Story" Chapter 9
Lovely, he's not done.
Posted on Sat, 04 Apr 2026
Lovely, he's not done. Neither am I or think I'm not, but maybe.
Read full commentPosted in Since April
not all cats get to heaven? I
Posted on Fri, 03 Apr 2026
not all cats get to heaven? I guess that's fair. If I make the cut I hope not to meet Jordan Peterson or Donald J. Trump.
Read full commentPosted in Things that he took to the Afterlife
great stuff. I almost know
Posted on Tue, 31 Mar 2026
great stuff. I almost know who done it. But what I'm not quite sure.
Read full commentPosted in Penny's Pass The Story - Part 8.
'Buddy can you spare a dime'
Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2026
'Buddy can you spare a dime' was that call to recognise what was and is the rabid relations of class warfare. We lost. I'm a fan of Germinal too. Zola at his best.
Read full commentPosted in A Hungry Bear Doesn’t Dance
You've added to the moral
Posted on Mon, 23 Mar 2026
You've added to the moral turpitude. I'm not sure how to spell it, or what that means. Whatever it is, I like it.
Read full commentPosted in Penny’s Pass the Story - Part Four
'He’d followed up on a
Posted on Tue, 17 Mar 2026
'He’d followed up on a routine call from Hawthorne Elementary. An older man.' This bit is meant to signal a flashback.
Sherrif Milton remembering how he met Snoddy.
The previous paragraph eases the reader into the flashback. '...
Read full commentPosted in 'Penny’s Pass the Parcel’ Part 2
I guess we all do, some more
Posted on Tue, 10 Feb 2026
I guess we all do, some more readily than others.
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thanks TJ and Vera and Insert
Posted on Wed, 10 Dec 2025
thanks TJ and Vera and Insert and Turlough as you know without readers, we don't really exist.
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