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Pizza Face pulls his duffle coat hood down, to show he is serious, even though the rain is coming down horizontal. He does a feint and step-over, is...
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Angela stands, waiting. Bob shouts again. ‘Jesus,’ he rants, when there’s no reply and no sign of footfall. ‘You better come in, then.’ She cranes...
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Pizza Face sits on the floor in the living room, his back against the wall, tilting his head, gnawing at his thumbnail until his cuticles redden and...
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The social-work meeting takes place after lunch. Tony lies on top of his bed, with belly ache, paging through a stained Readers Digest he’d found on...
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At breakfast Bob plonks himself beside Tony, ready to make a grab at him if he shows any inkling to butcher another resident or even staff, with a...
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Father Ambrose sounds like a
Posted on Fri, 30 Jul 2021
Father Ambrose sounds like a businessman, putting his mark down and sacking employees. Sad about the women who had to give their children away. I was shocked it was still happening in Ireland in the 1930s, with children dying of hunger. We always...
Read full commentPosted in Maria's Diary 37
beautiful.
Posted on Sat, 24 Jul 2021
beautiful.
Read full commentPosted in In IKEA, he dreams about the woman he loves
I guess war is always
Posted on Fri, 23 Jul 2021
I guess war is always described as inevitable. That way it's like a kid's told-you-so.
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some cowards and heroes,
Posted on Fri, 23 Jul 2021
some cowards and heroes, typically, Englsimen desribed in glowing terms, lasars and coloured men in the former category. I guess it wasn't quite like that.
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poor sap. wonder what mother
Posted on Tue, 20 Jul 2021
poor sap. wonder what mother will say.
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who is Mendes? congratualtion
Posted on Tue, 20 Jul 2021
who is Mendes? congratualtion on poem of he week. well deserved.
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He was right about the East
Posted on Fri, 16 Jul 2021
He was right about the East Indian Company and the British. Ironically, it's now China that is the most powerful nation on earth. Britain a spent power dwelling on its past.
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we're all dreamers jenny, but
Posted on Wed, 07 Jul 2021
we're all dreamers jenny, but not all poets.
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I'd say in Google's defence
Posted on Sat, 03 Jul 2021
I'd say in Google's defence it doesn't know me either. And I'm not sure if witers' retreat should have a possessive (Champions League doesn't.) I'd be suprised that even in such a fictional place any reader didn't recognise the uniqueness and...
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He starts laughin. We aw dae.
Posted on Tue, 22 Jun 2021
He starts laughin. We aw dae. Sometimes there’s nothin else fur it.
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