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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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Grimms73
‘You don’t need to be daft and drown yerself. You can just drink the poison to kill yerself.’ Bruno is deft at sneaking up on people and has big lugs...
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'Go'
You belong to the normal generation. Everything clear-cut and solvable. Climate change stabilised. No more poverty. Hunger eradicated. The gap...
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Grimms72
Jaz ganders out the kitchen window and sees Pizza Face playing outside, kicking a ball against the bins. ‘Hi,’ he calls through to Angela, but it’s...
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I was told to take our
Posted on Thu, 31 Mar 2022
I was told to take our readings as well. Online said it was too busy and put them in later...
Read full commentPosted in A Stitch In Time, Saves Eighteen.
I think Putin miscaluculated
Posted on Thu, 31 Mar 2022
I think Putin miscaluculated. He'll never admit it, of course. Too many western politicians bought and paid for, including Ukrainians (Gasprom deal).
Read full commentPosted in Russian Propaganda! by Alfred N(azi?) Muggins
famine does stalk the land,
Posted on Thu, 31 Mar 2022
famine does stalk the land, unfortunately not just in fairy tales.
Read full commentPosted in Into the Woods (Hansel and Gretel)
I think I've read this before
Posted on Tue, 22 Mar 2022
I think I've read this before. if not, something very like it. It's still great and grates.
Read full commentPosted in Don't Look at the Sheikh
I do not dream of swallows
Posted on Tue, 22 Mar 2022
I do not dream of swallows either, But somethnng about an airplane crashing. I guess that doesn't make sense. Dreams don't. Your poetry does.
Read full commentPosted in To Dream Of Swallows Is An Ill Omen
here's hoping, but I'd expect
Posted on Tue, 22 Mar 2022
here's hoping, but I'd expect letters are old fashioned. You'd get an email (which doesn't make as good a story).
Read full commentPosted in I'm Getting Published!
ah, just friends? what about
Posted on Fri, 18 Mar 2022
ah, just friends? what about the bird-delivery man? Keep the story tail wagging.
Read full commentPosted in Willow's Tail" 26
a nice twist in the urn of
Posted on Fri, 18 Mar 2022
a nice twist in the urn of things.
Read full commentPosted in Wait!
one never knows how long one
Posted on Wed, 16 Mar 2022
one never knows how long one has to live, then and now. Interesting that all the action was in Ireland.
Read full commentPosted in Maria and the Bellasis Family 28
my secret is not to visit
Posted on Wed, 16 Mar 2022
my secret is not to visit anyone with carpets.
Read full commentPosted in Don't You Just Hate It When.......
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