celticman
Primary tabs
Pages
My stories
grimms42
At 11.45 am three masked men burst through the door of the Linen Bank on Dunbarton Road, stocking masks over their faces. ‘This is a stick up,’...
- Read more about grimms42
- 11 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 3086 reads
grimms41
Tony remembers a parade of uniforms and much mumbling just outside of hearing. He forgets who has come or who had gone. Memories and dreams mixed up...
- Read more about grimms41
- 8 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 3561 reads
grimms40
There is a vacancy in the way Tony looks out the car window at the sweep of tenement building they pass and a sense of unease that they are going in...
- Read more about grimms40
- 9 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 4383 reads
grimms39
Tony hunch-shouldered, tethers himself like a human-shaped balloon on the edge of familiar things, the chair his da usually sits in, watching the...
- Read more about grimms39
- 8 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 3363 reads
grimms38
Tony doesn’t decide to go to school, that’s just where his feet take him. The class has already garbled morning prayer, sung the time table and moved...
- Read more about grimms38
- 14 comments
- Log in to post comments
- 5373 reads
great stuff. enjoyed reading.
Posted on Mon, 15 Feb 2021
great stuff. enjoyed reading.
Read full commentPosted in Letters in the attic
the bones of a forgotten road
Posted on Thu, 11 Feb 2021
the bones of a forgotten road. Your poetry finds a way home.
Read full commentPosted in After the Blizzard
I'm with farg with regard to
Posted on Tue, 09 Feb 2021
I'm with farg with regard to Dire Stratis.
Read full commentPosted in Take it Back
funnily enough was talking to
Posted on Tue, 09 Feb 2021
funnily enough was talking to my mate about that today, Jenny, but it was the Erskine Bridge we were talking about.
Read full commentPosted in Silent Lament
hearts and souls carried like
Posted on Mon, 08 Feb 2021
hearts and souls carried like old sums into this next line- poetry.
Read full commentPosted in Mehtab Bagh (Moonlight Garden)
We’d been to my parents
Posted on Sat, 23 Jan 2021
We’d been to my parents [parent's]
wonderful story telling, great ending and a story that sticks.
Read full commentPosted in Snow Day
a vision I can recognise.
Posted on Sat, 23 Jan 2021
a vision I can recognise.
Read full commentPosted in Wootton Village
sea spirit guides us all, not
Posted on Fri, 22 Jan 2021
sea spirit guides us all, not all, but you, certainly.
Read full commentPosted in To a Lone Sailor
magically evoked, if we
Posted on Fri, 15 Jan 2021
magically evoked, if we turned into a tree what bitter fruits would we?
Read full commentPosted in Apple Tree
we are indeed on the edge of
Posted on Tue, 12 Jan 2021
we are indeed on the edge of colour, especially as we get older.
Read full commentPosted in The Edge of Colour
Pages