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our once blue planet
Nature’s pulse. Temparture Rising. Unwell. Our oceans lost rainbow of falling tiny shells. Splicing and dicing latencies Something hidden now at sea...
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widdershins
You probably remember that story of the Virgin Mary turning up unexpectedly at her pal’s house, as she’s prone to do, and blurting out: ‘hi, you’re...
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Jimmy Savile and me
I was lying in bed when my mum rushed up the stairs, barged into my room, mouthed that it was Sir Jimmy Saville on the phone. I had to shoo her away...
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the war to end all wars
In a world of mud, colour was a low deceit and became his eyes, his legs and his feet tapping out messages to his body in the trenches. Bright...
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granny's refrain
I disliked Mona Lisa when I saw a print of it in a library book, not for the usual childish reasons based on crappy artistic merit, or the adolescent...
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lost some narrative structure
Posted on Fri, 07 Feb 2020
lost some narrative structure here. Compelling as it is, turned into a rant. You can't hate your reader for not knowing. Not experiencing. Teach us in truth by telling a story that resonates in our hearts. The simple truth I understand is most-...
Read full commentPosted in Recognizing a Hero In Addict (7 cont&8)
this is great. I enjoyed
Posted on Tue, 14 Jan 2020
this is great. I enjoyed reading it. I can see how so much training would make you incredibly fit, but, ironically, have such adverse affect on your bones. The killer line is it became drudgery. Just another way of making a buck. Amen to that. I...
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yes, nothing to do with
Posted on Fri, 03 Jan 2020
yes, nothing to do with global warming - apparently!
Read full commentPosted in You can’t cling to something once it has gone.
happy sad. sad happy,
Posted on Mon, 23 Dec 2019
happy sad. sad happy, sometimes we settle for the crappy.
Read full commentPosted in The Day Before Christmas
good story, but the changing
Posted on Tue, 17 Dec 2019
good story, but the changing point of view weakens it. I'd suggest make it his story or her story.
Read full commentPosted in Strings of Desire (A working title)
200 years doesn't sound like
Posted on Mon, 16 Dec 2019
200 years doesn't sound like rapid change, but I guess it's all a matter of perspective.
Read full commentPosted in Creative Media and Sales : Ch.16d The Decline of Civilisation
Lovely story and true too.
Posted on Wed, 11 Dec 2019
Lovely story and true too.
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I'm a bit like you, I've
Posted on Sat, 30 Nov 2019
I'm a bit like you, I've heard of J.K.Rowling. Haven't read any Harry Potter. But I have hear the myth around how she was working in an Edinburgh coffeeshop...being turned down 12 times is nothing. I've heard of Sheldon, watched a bit of The Big...
Read full commentPosted in Jim Parsons and J.K. Rowling.
gritty and grimy, so he's a
Posted on Sat, 30 Nov 2019
gritty and grimy, so he's a cop, interesting. terriific wring. whose story is it, Gallacher or Crowe's? If it's Crowe's the descripton of him given (change of point of view) by Gallacher needs a bit of work and kinda jams the narrative.
Read full commentPosted in A Quality of inertia (WIP)
Word origin of 'vade mecum'
Posted on Tue, 26 Nov 2019
Word origin of 'vade mecum'
C17: from Latin, literally: go with me
I will walk with you a while in your writing. Alan Bennet's idea of reading as a hand held out which you grasp. Munch's scream is so popular because it allows for...
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