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ABCtales Magazine and me
I got the new ABCtales ‘best of’ through the post this morning. I know you can download it, but I prefer paper, it gives me something to chew over...
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Last Call
She clumped up the middle of Singers Road ignoring the pavements, damp and slippy with the mush of fallen leaves darkening pools against the wire...
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see you later alligator
We know what we know. We watched the world grow. And yet! And yet! There is that debt. There is that debt. Knowing doubts, bend us true. We know what...
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By Dickens
‘Another one to see you Doctor,’ said the receptionist, her droll tone on the phone, giving me adequate warning. ‘A Mr McDermid.’ Shuffled feet,...
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huts second week, second day (first draft)
Our first formal class, critical theory in mental handicap nursing, takes place in the defunct maternity ward, in the old hospital. High ceilings,...
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yes, hopefully it will always
Posted on Tue, 26 Jun 2018
yes, hopefully it will always be like this, or at least for a while.
Read full commentPosted in a break from hoovering
watch out for cliches, like
Posted on Sun, 03 Jun 2018
watch out for cliches, like 'turned up trumps' (especially with the monstrosity of a Trump that trumps most cliches). wolf and stuck pig. rougher end. gotten so deep. phoney war. most trusted confidantes
Read full commentPosted in Through War & Adversity - Chapter 3 - Part I
I wanted to know more. Really
Posted on Thu, 26 Apr 2018
I wanted to know more. Really enjjoyed reading it.
Read full commentPosted in Something Hard Inside Him (Part 2)
slides from metaphor to
Posted on Thu, 12 Apr 2018
slides from metaphor to madness and evil with spring-heeled ease.
Read full commentPosted in Big Cat
yeh, captures that remebrance
Posted on Sat, 07 Apr 2018
yeh, captures that remebrance of things lost and people lost too in their own home and in their mind.
Read full commentPosted in Visiting Mom
amen to that and halleluiah
Posted on Sun, 01 Apr 2018
amen to that and halleluiah too because this is so true.
Read full commentPosted in Alternative Prayer of Remembrance, Easter 2018
you're mirroring Pirsig's
Posted on Sun, 25 Mar 2018
you're mirroring Pirsig's take in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
Read full commentPosted in Mechanics & Artists
wonderfully perceptive
Posted on Wed, 21 Feb 2018
wonderfully perceptive storytelling. Kayla Stella Nue rings true.
Read full commentPosted in Jack Mutant - Which Way is Down? (part twelve)
bambi, but how much more
Posted on Sun, 21 Jan 2018
bambi, but how much more harrowing is the hundreds of millions of chickens and cattle that never experience daylight, in which a pen is their sun. A story well done.
Read full commentPosted in To Dance in the Shadows
memory is a lullaby.
Posted on Fri, 19 Jan 2018
memory is a lullaby.
Read full commentPosted in Stars Still Shine Brightly
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