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Love Story 23
It rained every day and everything closed in before the funeral. Mum had time for a fag before we got into the chauffeured car. The cortege set off,...
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Love Story 22
The Constable looked too small to be a cop even on his tiptoes. A parvenu in uniform just out of the wrapper did little to disguise his weedy build...
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Love Story 21
Da groaned and leaned on me as he lowered himself to the floor and shut his eyes. ‘Don’t die, Da,’ I wailed as he sucked in each breath in and blew...
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Love Story 20
I wore my smartest clothes and shined my shoes before we set off to the Police Station at Hall Street. Nobody else hurrying along the canal in the...
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Love Story 19
I piled my shirt and trousers on the chair beside the window and crept shivering into bed with my socks on. Tossed and turned. Yawned, throwing my...
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Nobody likes to be taken for
Posted on Sat, 28 Dec 2024
Nobody likes to be taken for a succour. A bed is for life. 'bet[bed] speciality outlet'
Read full commentPosted in Home is where the mind is
christmas carols let your
Posted on Fri, 27 Dec 2024
christmas carols let your festive season breath.
Read full commentPosted in Carols at Midnight
Christmas dinner can be
Posted on Wed, 25 Dec 2024
Christmas dinner can be tricky. Poor Pluto. Demoted to not even a Disney character now.
Read full commentPosted in Planet Secret Santa
Alfred may be confused but so
Posted on Tue, 24 Dec 2024
Alfred may be confused but so are tens of millons of others who grab land they say belonged to them before the Torah was written. As good a reason as any for mass murder.
Read full commentPosted in Sojourn In Palestine (Welcome To Palestine!) by Alfred N.Muggins : Part 1
Oh dear, Pat the pest and all
Posted on Mon, 23 Dec 2024
Oh dear, Pat the pest and all the rest. Of course, the voice that tells the trruth and says 'I hate you' is most worrying in an entertaining way.
Read full commentPosted in Parcel for you - Part 44
tucked indeed. My ambitions
Posted on Tue, 24 Dec 2024
tucked indeed. My ambitions once stretched to getting on a Christmas card too.
Read full commentPosted in And what did the robin do then...?
belief is important. innocene
Posted on Tue, 24 Dec 2024
belief is important. innocene more so. bloody santa...I know...I know...I know.
Read full commentPosted in Santa Pause
that's all good news Jenny.
Posted on Sun, 22 Dec 2024
that's all good news Jenny. Have a lovely-- and mobile--Christmas.
Read full commentPosted in Bright Side Of Life
Women, I guess, are the
Posted on Sat, 21 Dec 2024
Women, I guess, are the bearers of light and chroniclers of darkness.
Read full commentPosted in The Border Ballads
a body shouldn't scare
Posted on Fri, 20 Dec 2024
a body shouldn't scare undertakers, but hey, resurrection isn't good for business, or is it?
Read full commentPosted in It's My Party (Dead Reckoning series - Part 40)
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