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Grimms 78
Fag smoke drifts above Pizza Face’s head. His is a frightened silence amid bickering conversation and accusations of neglect. The last of the sun...
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Grimms77
Junior hurries home. Tired and hungry, his hair sun-washed and lighter than his brothers’, he finds virtue in manual labour, skin lightly tanned and...
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Grimms 76
Awash with pints and halfs and even mouth puckering gin, with a slice of lemon and whisky in the same glass. Cocktails of his own devising. His day...
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Grimms75
With all the cash Jaz is carrying and the hurry-scurry Rab is surprised to be standing beside him at a bus stop waiting for a bus. Jaz has brought...
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Grimms 74
Jaz hears the loud screeching and the rising harangue which follows. It woke him up. It wakes the whole tenement block. The smell of cigarette smoke...
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I think you've nailed down
Posted on Tue, 18 Jan 2022
I think you've nailed down this nature stuff, Jenny. You've even added a ghostly Queen Victoria!
Read full commentPosted in Burnham Beeches
time doesn't touch the stars.
Posted on Tue, 18 Jan 2022
time doesn't touch the stars. Only us.
Read full commentPosted in Fading of Legends
nothng is secret nowdays or
Posted on Tue, 18 Jan 2022
nothng is secret nowdays or themdays either.
Read full commentPosted in Bronte's Inferno II (The Mysterious Mr Mitie)
doesn't seem much of a sin,
Posted on Wed, 12 Jan 2022
doesn't seem much of a sin, overextending and borrowing money. But obediance, well, that can get stretched out of shape, like most things. And can be used for an ego-trip. I'd guess both here.
Read full commentPosted in Maria and the Bellasis Family 21
[C]ounty Fermagh. Seamus came
Posted on Wed, 12 Jan 2022
[C]ounty Fermagh. Seamus came from a long line of farmers, but he's a shepherd. I get that. But can be a bit confusing. I'd look at that again, how to word it differently so it is clearer.
courtyard that housed all kinds of rural machines...
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these issues take centuries
Posted on Sat, 08 Jan 2022
these issues take centuries to decide. Belfast, by default, is the safest place to be.
Read full commentPosted in Apples of democracy.
I guess that happens to the
Posted on Fri, 07 Jan 2022
I guess that happens to the best of us. That's why I don't take cabs.
Read full commentPosted in Ol' Rickety (Part 2)
O'Ricketty comes up trumps in
Posted on Thu, 06 Jan 2022
O'Ricketty comes up trumps in the end, but it's not the end, so I'll read on.
Read full commentPosted in Ol' Rickety (Part 1)
As Whitney warbled: Childern
Posted on Mon, 03 Jan 2022
As Whitney warbled: Childern are out future. But they're more than that as you've shown.
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ah, who's doing the chosing?
Posted on Mon, 03 Jan 2022
ah, who's doing the chosing?
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