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SEV 3
I was sixteen when I stole my brother, SEV’s, identity. I’d nipped into the lounge of the Glen Lusset and ordered a pint of lager. I was tall enough...
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SEV 2
My brother watched me playing for the Boy’s Guild on St Stephen’s gravel park. He stood under a tree with his mate Billy Quinn, both of them wearing...
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Pat Powell 1936—2014
Pat Powell 1936—2014 My da was over ten years older than Old Pat, but I asked my da if he knew him, and he gave a shake of his head and glowered. He...
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Stephen O’Donnell 1959—1995 [1]
I was living in the studio flat on Castle Street, when I heard the knock on the door. My eldest sister, Josephine, or Jo as we called her, was...
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Phyllis McFadden 1931-1986
I was twenty-three when my Auntie Phyllis died. She was fifty-five. I’m older now than she was when she died. Back then, in 1986, I thought anyone...
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Amber's best instincts, I'd
Posted on Fri, 05 Jan 2024
Amber's best instincts, I'd guess, is the wrong thing to do?
Read full commentPosted in Pick Up The Pieces (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 49)
I'll kick in with it sounds
Posted on Wed, 03 Jan 2024
I'll kick in with it sounds like a story where blindness is a disease everyone catches. Not Wyndham and not Triffids. But the end of civilisation and safety.
Read full commentPosted in Abyss
wisdom is indeed beautiful.
Posted on Sat, 30 Dec 2023
wisdom is indeed beautiful.
Read full commentPosted in The Witches of Long Compton
the party of parties,
Posted on Wed, 27 Dec 2023
the party of parties, unfortunately still in goverment. The harm they have done is not immeasurable, but nobody counts when they are out of government as Boris and his transatlantic friend the moron's moron found out. There's nothnig good that...
Read full commentPosted in The Masque of the Red-Faced Boris
ah, prayer is a funny thing.
Posted on Wed, 20 Dec 2023
ah, prayer is a funny thing. We wait all our live for a reply.
Read full commentPosted in By the Candelight of Saints
blessings to you too Jenny
Posted on Wed, 20 Dec 2023
blessings to you too Jenny (more of a bah humbug kinda guy).
Read full commentPosted in Charms Of The Season
corpses, in bed, or out, are
Posted on Fri, 15 Dec 2023
corpses, in bed, or out, are always a worry. Perhaps less so for your average undertaker. Not that they're ever average.
Read full commentPosted in Harbour Lights (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 46)
chocolate fingers are always
Posted on Fri, 15 Dec 2023
chocolate fingers are always a worry. Robotic fingers and real feelings moreso.
Read full commentPosted in Parcel for you...Part 10
we don't ever believe, until
Posted on Tue, 12 Dec 2023
we don't ever believe, until it's too late.
Read full commentPosted in If We Don't Talk About It, It Won't Haunt Me
Great idea. Keeping that big
Posted on Wed, 13 Dec 2023
Great idea. Keeping that big idea kettled. I'd love to try it. But I can't think of anything big enough.
Read full commentPosted in Brodie's Big Idea
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