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Love Story 14
Mum made us both a pot of tea and put out a plate of Digestive. We sat at the table, knee to knee. She had her fags. I’d my biscuits to dunk in my...
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Love Story 13
Da came through for his dinner. He glanced at us talking and laughing, grunted something, as he drowned the fish in salt and vinegar. Picked up his...
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Love Story 12
Mum had a cup of tea on the go and the chip pan on to make Da’s tea. Animal fat and incinerated starch creating a sticky vapour that clung to every...
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Love Story 11
‘She would notice,’ I bit down on my bottom lip to show that was our conversation over. Ali recovered quicker than a whiplash victim cashing a cheque...
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Love Story 10
Mum floated about smoking between the kitchen and living room. Da ruffled the sports’ pages of the Daily Record to show he was reading and didn’t...
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you've turned feeling or lack
Posted on Thu, 03 Apr 2025
you've turned feeling or lack of it, into words that carry us with him and his hopelessness. Well done.
Read full commentPosted in The Young Man
maybe Di, I don't know. I'm
Posted on Sun, 23 Mar 2025
maybe Di, I don't know. I'm kinda just guessing and hoping it doesn't show too much and trying to find a path that begins and ends with a plot.
Read full commentPosted in Steelie 11
A guy jumped off the Erskine
Posted on Sat, 22 Jun 2024
A guy jumped off the Erskine Bridge last week (usually it's not reported as it encourages others). Many of the comments blamed immigrants. We, the working class, lost the propanganda war. We get Trump and Putin holding hands. We get hate, hate,...
Read full commentPosted in "For, being green, there is great hope" (quote from Shakespeare's HENRY VI PART 2, ACT 3 SCENE 1)
ah, Cedric. The story has
Posted on Fri, 28 Mar 2025
ah, Cedric. The story has been told mostly from Vanessa's point of view. Now we're getting a bored and jealous Spencer. He sounds human. The ongoing mystery of what Cedric is up to-- good enough to eat.
Read full commentPosted in Parcel for you - Part 56
Precious paper. Unprecious
Posted on Sat, 29 Mar 2025
Precious paper. Unprecious life.
Read full commentPosted in The days are packed
our water is safe and clean.
Posted on Tue, 25 Mar 2025
our water is safe and clean. bottled water is money down the drain (literally). untreated water kills more children than bombs.
Read full commentPosted in Water.
rain is life. a few well
Posted on Sun, 23 Mar 2025
rain is life. a few well-placed words can be too.
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great stuff. All of us need a
Posted on Sat, 22 Mar 2025
great stuff. All of us need a rubber duck.
Read full commentPosted in So glad you made it
wait and listen.
Posted on Fri, 21 Mar 2025
wait and listen.
Read full commentPosted in Well, I Will Go To The Foot Of Our Stairs!
bort and soled. My spelling
Posted on Fri, 21 Mar 2025
bort and soled. My spelling sometimes does that too. keep them moving along.
Read full commentPosted in Coach (Episode 2 - The Further Chronicles of a Young Lady (and her Maid)
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