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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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I guess in the end I thought
Posted on Mon, 17 Nov 2025
I guess in the end I thought she'd be saved. No matter. All her good deeds. She'll get to heaven.
Read full commentPosted in The Day She Chose to Be Good
maybe turlough. maybe.
Posted on Sun, 16 Nov 2025
maybe turlough. maybe.
Read full commentPosted in genesis
Absolutely. For Fairy Cake
Posted on Fri, 14 Nov 2025
Absolutely. For Fairy Cake read Crunchies. Faires eat then too. So they must be true.
Read full commentPosted in FAIRY CAKES
trippple
Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025
trippple like tipple. More than one. Like a burn to the sea or see?
Read full commentPosted in The Second Shadow
great story, not a shadow on
Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025
great story, not a shadow on the second shadow. bravo.
Read full commentPosted in The Second Shadow
ah, wow, delicate and tough,
Posted on Mon, 10 Nov 2025
ah, wow, delicate and tough, hard to braid and hard to breath. The things you know.
Read full commentPosted in Things You Keep
ah, but no leaky teapots,
Posted on Mon, 10 Nov 2025
ah, but no leaky teapots, Turlough. Always that missing piece.
Read full commentPosted in Naming Tree
in the annnals of wandering
Posted on Mon, 10 Nov 2025
in the annnals of wandering about fields field, I've never seen so much dedication. You deserve all the honours of the broken teapot. Long may your luminary reek. There hasn't been such dedicated tramping since the potato and toilet-roll famine...
Read full commentPosted in Turlough Ó Carolan's Farewell to Turlough Ó Maoláin
the newspaper nobody ever
Posted on Sun, 09 Nov 2025
the newspaper nobody ever read. Must be the Egyptian equivalent of the Sun.
Read full commentPosted in Alexandria
much I sadly find myself
Posted on Sun, 09 Nov 2025
much I sadly find myself agreeing with here. Backward steps for humanity.
Read full commentPosted in Victory In Europe Day 8th of May 2025 : Hollow Victory Celebration After Almost 80 Years of Success and Peace
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