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Goatie 3
I slept tranquilly. It gets to the stage where you become acclimatised to anything. Even prisoners at Auschwitz slept soundly. I’m in pretend mode...
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Goatie 2
I ponder my sleep-walking predicament. Apparently, I’m superhuman able to drink a glass of water without waking. I remember a case in which a man had...
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Goatie
MIASMA. That’s the word I was trying to remember. It’s all a bit stupid. It doesn’t really exist in the same way it did then as an invasive force. But you’ve still got the hangover of the word hanging like a bad smell.
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Maddy.
She could have laughed—her daughter, a mother. Madeline had been a fat baby. A happy baby with a heart like a sounding harp. She missed combing her...
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Schmooze control
I should cleave each word with an axe and burn it. Half asleep at the wheel. Not drunk but on snooze control. I find my own way home as my life goes...
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poetry does prove better, but
Posted on Tue, 03 Sep 2024
poetry does prove better, but sometimes both.
Read full commentPosted in I Started Out Writing Horror (But Poetry Proved Better)
Ah, sunshine, I remember it
Posted on Tue, 03 Sep 2024
Ah, sunshine, I remember it well. Menka cat. Another to the litter of leva grabbers. I guess you've wormed in lettuce and our shortest-lived PM. All's good. Keep us informed.
Read full commentPosted in Don't Mess with a Meteorology Man
I wouldn't use 'warts and all
Posted on Mon, 02 Sep 2024
I wouldn't use 'warts and all' as that's cliched, but this is the kind of stuff I love reading.
Read full commentPosted in Taking Care 1 (i)
the ghosts of the past are
Posted on Tue, 03 Sep 2024
the ghosts of the past are always present, or they should be. I'M OK and You're OK and all that stuff fed into a programme that mimics response. But pattern-recognistion software is smarter than us now. That's the worry. It's streets ahead and...
Read full commentPosted in Ghostbot (Part One of Two)
we'll trade some of our
Posted on Mon, 02 Sep 2024
we'll trade some of our Scottish ran for some of your Bulgarian sunshine. We can no longer pay in Euros. Some blame immigrants for the weather too. Lovely to read your stuff and I look forward to the next bit tomorrow. Can't remember Irma. After...
Read full commentPosted in For the Love of Irma Ogden
I'm old enough to remeber
Posted on Sat, 31 Aug 2024
I'm old enough to remeber when the first question a dental receptionist wasn't, 'how are you going to pay?'
Dental care used to be part of the NHS. Water, tap water. is cheap and almost free. Those that pay for bottled water are mugs. If...
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Seize the day! Aye, right, If
Posted on Sat, 31 Aug 2024
Seize the day! Aye, right, If life was that simple, everybody would be doing it. Few do. Nice to see a second part.
Read full commentPosted in Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Facing up
all life is a balancing act,
Posted on Sat, 31 Aug 2024
all life is a balancing act, sometimes we fall, but mostly we watch others and wait.
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remembering blossom brings
Posted on Fri, 30 Aug 2024
remembering blossom brings about the healing heat of growth.
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Obviously, I'm a fan of this
Posted on Fri, 30 Aug 2024
Obviously, I'm a fan of this kind of narrative that tells it how it is, without frills. I remember it well. I couldn't stand your brother or his wife at the end. I guess you couldn't either.
Read full commentPosted in Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Respite
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