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The Courtier From The 21st Century Who Would Be King : The King Behind The Throne : King Henry VIII (Alfred the Great II) : Ch.4 by Alfred Muggins (himself) The Real Henry VIII Finds His Feet In 21st Century England! Part 1
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28/5/21 (27/2/23) Alfred had unleashed an aging and disgruntled Henry on the modern world! Where would he stop, now that he had found his feet? Henry...
The Courtier From The 21st Century Who Would Be King : The King Behind The Throne : King Henry VIII (Alfred the Great II) : Ch.3 by Alfred Muggins (himself) My Kingdom For A Pen!
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18/2/21 / (some editing 13/02/23) Alfred, styled still as Henry VIII, has learned from Henry’s historical mistakes, and with modern knowledge and...
The Courtier From The 21st Century Who Would Be King : The King Behind The Throne : King Henry VIII (Alfred the Great II) : Ch.2 by Alfred Muggins (himself)
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6/7/21 (15/2/23) As Alfred prepared to ‘swop’ places with Henry so the Great King could be saved by modern medicine, Alfred was ‘trained up’ by Henry...
The Courtier From The 21st Century Who Would Be King : The King Behind The Throne : King Henry VIII (Alfred the Great II) : Ch.1 by Alfred Muggins (himself)
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16/4/21 (21/10/21) Henry confided in his friend Alfred that he was becoming weary of his position as King. Everyone expected him to know the answer...
The Downfall Of Russia (The Madness of Tsar Putinplot!) by Alfred N.Muggins
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26/4/22 Vladimir Putinplot looks into a Crystal Ball, which he has acquired from a cave somewhere in the Ural Mountains. Apparently Genghis Khan once...
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Interesting and evocative
Posted on Tue, 16 Nov 2021
Interesting and evocative snapshot of life in Bulgaria. It sounds like it has plenty of character, and perhaps more variety or surprises than places that have been capitalist or western for longer?
Read full commentPosted in The Friday Pazar in Gorna Oryahovitsa
Good piece. This is an
Posted on Tue, 16 Nov 2021
Good piece. This is an appropriate way of looking at our response to climate change. Capitalism and the profit motive, and vested interests will surely have slowed down the changes we need to make.
Read full commentPosted in ECOCIDE
I enjoyed the story and have
Posted on Sun, 31 Oct 2021
I enjoyed the story and have now finished it. I am glad to see that justice was served! I feel it would make a great film, as you have supplied much of the visual description, which could be translated into a great moody film. As you say it was...
Read full commentPosted in The Black Crow of Purgatory (Part 3 of 3)
An awful realisation for John
Posted on Fri, 29 Oct 2021
An awful realisation for John, that he is the victim of his wife and her boyfriend! I do hope there is something he can do about it, but its all a bit too late for John? Good story!
Read full commentPosted in The Black Crow of Purgatory (Part 2 of 3)
I instantly feel sorry for
Posted on Wed, 27 Oct 2021
I instantly feel sorry for the character John, because of the manner of his death, and the nature of this purgatory/graveyard is certainly making me wonder what happens next! Certainly a good start.
Read full commentPosted in The Black Crow of Purgatory (Part 1 of 3)
I enjoyed your poem. Every
Posted on Tue, 19 Oct 2021
I enjoyed your poem. Every time I read it it puts me in the mood for Halloween! It is interesting to read about the Celtic background to Halloween, which I had not appreciated before.
Read full commentPosted in Samhain and Beyond
I also enjoyed this poem. You
Posted on Tue, 05 Oct 2021
I also enjoyed this poem. You described the feeling/situation of strangers passing in the street very effectively, and in a moody way!
Read full commentPosted in Strangers on a Street
Good story, a bit sad, but
Posted on Tue, 14 Sep 2021
Good story, a bit sad, but very heartening in the end! Life goes on and our animals do need us!
Read full commentPosted in With or Without You
A fitting memory of it.
Posted on Fri, 10 Sep 2021
A fitting memory of it. Watching a documentary about it again has reminded me of the extreme horror and extreme spectacle of it!
Read full commentPosted in Twin Towers
Great poem, showing the
Posted on Tue, 24 Aug 2021
Great poem, showing the desperation, disappointment, and tragedy of those queueing or jostling outside the airport at Kabul. These are scenes that should not be happening, one way or another, a modern horror story. What went wrong? What could...
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