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grimm27
The school nurse’s grey hair resembles an unkempt blackbird’s nest, with a pokey wee white hat stranded on it. She has squeezed into her white...
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grimms26
Jaz can’t find his house keys and hammers on the front door, flipping the letter box with an untimely rat-a-tat-tat, echoing through the close. Karen...
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grimms25
The chaffing of barmaid’s singing lullabies, ‘Last orders,’ and deftly nicking the glass out of their hand before they are finished, Jaz and Rab are...
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grimm24
‘You’ll never guess who the Rhetor was?’ Jaz says to Rab. Despite the dim light, Jaz had recognized Chief Inspector Collins at once. He was a tall...
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grimms23
There’s nothing else for it. Jaz decides to go and see Rab. There’s been talk – Rab’s old man wittering, he might be able to do something for them...
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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.
Read full commentPosted in Family Meetings
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.
Read full commentPosted in Maria's Diary 35 The Shipwreck
poor sap. wonder what mother
Posted on Tue, 20 Jul 2021
poor sap. wonder what mother will say.
Read full commentPosted in When Robert Left Helen
who is Mendes? congratualtion
Posted on Tue, 20 Jul 2021
who is Mendes? congratualtion on poem of he week. well deserved.
Read full commentPosted in Another Night On a Bare Mountain
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.
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.
Read full commentPosted in Disenchantment 26
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