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Ugly Puggly 70
When I drew up in the van outside Molly’s house, we rushed the close door, which was jammed open, and galloped upstairs using our elbows to gain...
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Ugly Puggly 69
I drove home. Molly, in the passenger seat beside me, rocked backwards and forwards clutching her stomach and urging me to hurry. But the traffic...
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Ugly Puggly 68
We drove back along the way we came. The nearest petrol station was just off Crow Road. The engine chugged and wheezed before it cut out. I flicked...
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Ugly Puggly 67
Molly had a hand draped over my shoulder as we sat in the back of the Bongo. Her musty perfume stirred me up. She dressed like we were going for a...
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Ugly Puggly 66
I stumbled past ranks of wilting bracken and tepid water turning green with algae. Tenement buildings in straight lines and a clutter of housing...
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happy ending, thingmy. I call
Posted on Mon, 23 Sep 2024
happy ending, thingmy. I call everybody that. never fails.
Read full commentPosted in ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
setting up a committee is an
Posted on Sat, 21 Sep 2024
setting up a committee is an old ruse. Still works well.
Read full commentPosted in When I Grow Up I Want to be a Martyr
indeed, dad will have
Posted on Sat, 21 Sep 2024
indeed, dad will have something to say. I'd say it's a great story. Look forward to more.
Read full commentPosted in Tom All Alone (1)
I'm sure Mr Muggins doesn't
Posted on Sat, 21 Sep 2024
I'm sure Mr Muggins doesn't confuse the revolutinary Arthur Scargill with Sir Keir Stammer, bastion of the British middle-class system.
Read full commentPosted in The New King Arthur Slays His First Dragon! By Alfred N.Muggins
I couldn't really get into
Posted on Sat, 21 Sep 2024
I couldn't really get into Hilary Mantel's books, but I know of the musician from the wonderful telly programme. Love even for the lowly, especially, for the lowly, can be cruel and torturous. Literally, as you show.
Read full commentPosted in Letter To Anne Boleyn From Mark Smeaton
we're all lightening bugs on
Posted on Sat, 21 Sep 2024
we're all lightening bugs on the breeze.
Read full commentPosted in Enchanted insects
when all of these things
Posted on Sat, 14 Sep 2024
when all of these things about climate change do happen, and they will, very soon (in the next 20 or thirty years, as they've already begun) it will be too late. Ironically, your arguement is made online to a writers' forum.
Read full commentPosted in Where Are We Now? Ted Kaczynski and Technological Society
ah, the darkness, but ah, the
Posted on Tue, 17 Sep 2024
ah, the darkness, but ah, the light.
Read full commentPosted in M'Appari
I too find it compelling and
Posted on Tue, 17 Sep 2024
I too find it compelling and hope to read more. Obviously, when something like that happens you were well understaffed. When nothing like that happens, you're overstaffed. So the story goes.
Read full commentPosted in Taking Care 6 (iii)
you can see poetry in life.
Posted on Mon, 16 Sep 2024
you can see poetry in life. That's a gift.
Read full commentPosted in Seeing
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