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You are not your illness.
The girls left a heady brew of perfume behind. I poured Etian some water and he was well enough to sit up in bed and sip it. He began coughing and...
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Cancer ward
‘I’ll be back for lunch,’ I sat on the side of his bed and squeezed his hand—‘someone’s got to make sure you eat something.’ The two policemen...
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The Rules of Leviticus.
We had an extended breakfast. His eyes crinkled with laughter watching me make a pig of myself and eating for two. My eyes jerked open, when Etian...
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Glasgow's Necropolis
I didn’t sleep that night. My wife clung to me in our bed and whispered to me not to go. She was pregnant. Her belly pushing against me, her smooth...
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Creeping F-ing Jesus.
The old man pulls a crumpled hanky from the side pocket of his jacket, and blows his nose. He peers at his notes and then at us with watery grey eyes...
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seems all too real.
Posted on Sat, 10 Feb 2024
seems all too real.
Read full commentPosted in Just like starting over
there is a hollowing out of
Posted on Wed, 07 Feb 2024
there is a hollowing out of the middle-class. the working-class is already fucked. the centre cannolt hold?
Read full commentPosted in Productivity is Dead
it is a big deal because it's
Posted on Fri, 09 Feb 2024
it is a big deal because it's a big deal. I wonder if Spencer's excess exuberance will make it a bigger deal.
Read full commentPosted in Parcel for You..Part 18
phew, it's a toughie. No
Posted on Wed, 07 Feb 2024
phew, it's a toughie. No right or wrong answers. My mum went into a home. I think it was the right thing. But I was glad when she died.
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ah, you had me going there, I
Posted on Mon, 05 Feb 2024
ah, you had me going there, I thought it was Jesus, but it was an old freind, much the same thing in some circles.
Read full commentPosted in We Watched from the Shore
dreams are the stuff of
Posted on Tue, 06 Feb 2024
dreams are the stuff of nightmares, indeed.
Read full commentPosted in "Oneiroi" (Greek myth - gods of dream)
I do not share in your
Posted on Tue, 06 Feb 2024
I do not share in your adoration of the former Queen or Prince, now King, Charles. But hey, we're aw Jock Tamson's bairns.
Read full commentPosted in Didn't See That Coming.
quite worrying. Spencer is
Posted on Wed, 31 Jan 2024
quite worrying. Spencer is smarter than me, which is a given, but I'm spiteful too. Possibly a sociopath. I always want stuff. But to be fair to myself and Spencer, my mum has been dead for years, and I never tried to dig her up, well, not very...
Read full commentPosted in Parcel for you..Part 17
that was fucking awful. Not
Posted on Sun, 04 Feb 2024
that was fucking awful. Not your journal and travel writing. Of course that was like a waterfall or some other metaphor for very nice. Almost as good as carrot jam. I'm toasting you and the Persians with a drink of non-alcholic alcohol.
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I couldn't get the riddle
Posted on Sat, 03 Feb 2024
I couldn't get the riddle either. I was thinking like an adult too. Mayfly, butterfly...keep the beauty moving.
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