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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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The cook looks up from a pile of dirty pots and dishes, rolls her eyes at Tony and comes walking towards him standing just inside the kitchen door...
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Bruno is hanging about waiting for Tony when he comes out of the office. ‘An ambulance came and took Hunter away,’ he explains. ‘Hunter swears he’s...
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Tony places the fork carefully back down on the table, beside the butter dish. Clutching his eye, a colourful arabesque, milky with red veins, half-...
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Tony shares a room at the top of the stairs with Bruno. ‘He’s a bed-wetter,’ whispers Julie. ‘We may get him up during the night to take him to the...
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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.
Read full commentPosted in The Domino Effect
I'd cut the last paragraph.
Posted on Thu, 24 Jun 2021
I'd cut the last paragraph. Forewarning of what is coming should be in subtext. Too much of a large gulp here.
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black humour, the kind that
Posted on Tue, 22 Jun 2021
black humour, the kind that buries you. I like it.
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alter's head. is that a play
Posted on Fri, 18 Jun 2021
alter's head. is that a play on words or do you mean altar? Both works, but in different ways. Enjoyed.
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Yes, we are all in flux.
Posted on Tue, 15 Jun 2021
Yes, we are all in flux.
Read full commentPosted in Cherry Tree
a loud whiisper is an
Posted on Fri, 04 Jun 2021
a loud whiisper is an oxymoron. But I know what you mean. Choose whiisper or loud. Not both.
moonlight doesn't trickle.
great start, plenty of foot-to-the-floor action. And the question of what they needed to steal and why remains...
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Blade Runner was certainly
Posted on Tue, 01 Jun 2021
Blade Runner was certainly better than the book. They tended to be prescient, but shit. Brought up o a diet of Star Trek, this is one of the great monolgues (not in the book). I'm rambling. Great poem.
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a happily unhappy story with
Posted on Sat, 29 May 2021
a happily unhappy story with an unhappy ending. Here's were we say, older and wiser, but life as you've shown is rarely that simple.
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bowl of fruit analogy works
Posted on Fri, 28 May 2021
bowl of fruit analogy works well.
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