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The Kitchen Door

By Caldwell on Fri, 12 Dec 2025

It was one of those French dinners that felt less like a birthday and more like a slow, indulgent suffocation. A celebration by way of forced feeding...

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Vignette: Anticipation Mechanics

By Caldwell on Thu, 04 Dec 2025

The trouble with anticipation is that it always imagines itself as an epic. One minute you’re ambling through your day, and the next you’re Indiana...

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The Smell of Other Worlds

By Caldwell on Fri, 21 Nov 2025

Every two months or so, I go to the médiathèque for a life drawing session, and the atmosphere is always strangely reverent, as if we’re about to...

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Reading your reply, I realise

Posted on Mon, 25 Aug 2025

Reading your reply, I realise I’d made light of something much weightier - apologies if my Richard Scarry detour seemed flippant. I suppose as a firstborn I’ve always felt I had enough hardship without taking on the bigger questions too. But you’...

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Appreciated

Posted on Thu, 28 Nov 2024

Thank you, feels strange to be bearing all and not hiding behind ideas and jokes and I appreciate this is not a therapy forum, but there's still some worth I think in remembering someone publicly, even if those you're sharing with had no idea of...

Posted in Adam Hopkins September 1939 - November 2024

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It was such an easy read.

Posted on Mon, 18 Nov 2024

It was such an easy read. From the first sentence, I was in your world and got quite upset with the forgiving nature of your narrator and her terrible but probably all-too-common situation. I have always been freaked out by Punch and Judy, never...

Posted in Cricks Crocodile

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ahh there you go. Lost me

Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025

ahh there you go. Lost me again... hahaha

Posted in The Second Shadow

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Painful. Love it. Right up my

Posted on Thu, 13 Nov 2025

Painful. Love it. Right up my street. Capri must have been fun, though. It's ironic, isn't it - Joni Mitchell style - don't know what you've got 'til it's gone. Love the 'A hole from the stables' line. Great work, free-flowing yet with real...

Posted in 3 Guys In My Life

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You got it Insert!

Posted on Wed, 05 Nov 2025

You got it Insert!

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That's a relief! Thank you

Posted on Wed, 05 Nov 2025

That's a relief! Thank you Onemorething. Always concerned that I might be being too self-indulgent. Do you know the songs? They're not hugely popular.

Posted in Calling All Angels

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Thank you so much Drew. I got

Posted on Sun, 28 Sep 2025

Thank you so much Drew. I got a bit obsessed and couldn't sleep last night until that ethical one was done, and then this one just flowed out this morning. Not so hard to parody this caricature of a man. He sort of does it for you.

Posted in Trump reads Hansel and Gretel

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Thank you for the praise -

Posted on Sat, 27 Sep 2025

Thank you for the praise - and the cherries! It's a really great trigger for inspiration. I think I have a few more attempts before the week is out

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The film "Straight Outta

Posted on Tue, 23 Sep 2025

The film "Straight Outta Compton" is really powerful and provided people like me with a real insight, both as a piece of storytelling and as a snapshot of a cultural moment. The casting of O’Shea Jackson Jr. as his father (Ice Cube) adds another...