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Celia didn’t believe in vampires or religion. The idea of hell and all that guff made her snort and giggle with laughter. Her pals warned her,...
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Angel 68 (long night)
Late the night before, she’d walked down to the corner shop to get out of the house, took a notion, and brought a fish supper back with her. Adam...
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good tears and bad.
I used to have the run of the house, said Nanny Anna. When I was wee I was always with my mammie’s mammie and she kept me right. I always got my own...
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Angel 67 (night calls)
Angel didn’t want to think about the funeral. She tried to stop her tears, because it wasn’t fair on Adam. She didn’t want him to see her crying all...
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the search for the new Dalai Lama
After the death of His Holiness, the fourteen Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, the search for the fifteenth and final Dalai Lama began. In the partial...
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me too. a long and happy life
Posted on Sat, 22 Oct 2022
me too. a long and happy life. The man sounds in pain too. He doesn't want to be a father. And certainly not father to a Down's syndrome child. sadness squared.
Read full commentPosted in He Caught My Eye.
sounds true. Many of us have
Posted on Sat, 22 Oct 2022
sounds true. Many of us have much the same problem. But why is it all about the sisters? Brothers can care too? I'm replyng as if it was a real problem. That means the writring is great.
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we suffer,but rarely in
Posted on Fri, 21 Oct 2022
we suffer,but rarely in silence. I liked this lots. The surreal elements blend in wonderfully, but when the narrator had no money for food, she bought beer and other items, including singlng squid. That threw me. Not the singing squid. But having...
Read full commentPosted in THE SQUID SISTERS - Part 2
Peace and best wishes too.
Posted on Fri, 21 Oct 2022
Peace and best wishes too. Who am I? What am I? it come up a lot in my wrting. It is in fact my writing. To be old is to be invsible. I passed an old woman in the old folk's home sitting in a chiar looking at nothing much. That's me. That's you....
Read full commentPosted in Joining up my rainbow memory dots - 1978 I help the homeless in Belfast
let's hope you don't need
Posted on Fri, 21 Oct 2022
let's hope you don't need them. I'm old enough to remember The Winter of Discontent and electricity rationing.
Read full commentPosted in Prepare. Prepared. Preparing. .
we bin stuff and we bin the
Posted on Wed, 19 Oct 2022
we bin stuff and we bin the people that bin stuff. tough, but true.
Read full commentPosted in Railway - a true memory poem
beautiful scarecrows. we live
Posted on Tue, 18 Oct 2022
beautiful scarecrows. we live in interesting times was meant to be a veiled insult. Not here.
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I remember the days before
Posted on Wed, 19 Oct 2022
I remember the days before google was a word. And phones took two-pence pieces.
Read full commentPosted in The Day Before the Internet
yep. exactly. except JCB has
Posted on Mon, 17 Oct 2022
yep. exactly. except JCB has ties ot the Tory Party and sponsored Brexit, which was dumb, dumb, dumb.
Read full commentPosted in Gladys Aylward 2 - How Gladys helped her entire family
maybe we all trill and try to
Posted on Mon, 17 Oct 2022
maybe we all trill and try to take possesion of the world.
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