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197 of my comments have received 214 Great Feedback votes

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This episode reminds me why I

Posted on Tue, 11 Feb 2014

This episode reminds me why I'm stupid not to keep up with you as you post them.  

I too love the last paragraph - one of the best I've read in a long time but it's not just that last bit, the whole thing is good.  

As always your...

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And it remains to this day

Posted on Thu, 06 Feb 2014

And it remains to this day one of the most disgraceful episodes of British colonialism among the litany of hundreds if not thousands of others.  Not in my name.

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Damn fine poem.  Damn fine.

Posted on Fri, 31 Jan 2014

Damn fine poem.  Damn fine.

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Hey Julian!  That's better.

Posted on Tue, 21 Jan 2014

Hey Julian!  That's better.  It's a good poem.  I like the cheeky rhyme and the insouciance of the piece.  If I've misinterpreted I apologise.  

Welcome to ABCtales.

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Hi Julian.  Welcome.  

Posted on Tue, 21 Jan 2014

Hi Julian.  Welcome.  

Just a technical prompt if you don't mind?  You have posted your piece on your 'Front Page' rather than in a collection as it were.  I know that it takes a bit of getting used to but where we are writing now is where...

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When dream sequences turn up

Posted on Thu, 16 Jan 2014

When dream sequences turn up I usually hunker down and wait for them to finish, but not with this one.    

I thought it to be pitched perfectly between real, eyes-wide-open cogency and the most awful Bedlam.  Stomach churning and with the...

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Some very minor typo

Posted on Fri, 17 Jan 2014

Some very minor typo alterations to consider?

"Eddie massaged his temples (temple) and sipped at the tall latte in the cardboard cup."  The pedant in me says that he couldn't massage his temples (it would take both hands - unless his hands...

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I realise that I have a bit

Posted on Fri, 10 Jan 2014

I realise that I have a bit of catching up to get on with!  I missed this one.  There are some exquisitely observed details that lend an indisputable realism to it.  Well done.

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Please insert the paragraph

Posted on Sat, 04 Jan 2014

Please insert the paragraph breaks!  Welcome to ABCtales.  

What I read before my eyes packed in was good.

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As always a pleasure to read

Posted on Thu, 02 Jan 2014

As always a pleasure to read your stuff.  A little clarification lenchenelf, is this spelling intentional?

"terratorial (territorial) seizure,"

It works well either way.

Congratulations on the cherries to by the way.

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