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(image: mine) Calm sets like a wish on the night. In your garden, the fruit trees bloom with stars. The sky tilts its last light to the edge...
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The Dumb Waiter 2026
A play for today in one act Apologies to Harold Pinter (image: mine) SCENE: A basement room. Two beds, flat against the back wall. Between the beds,...
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Tom All Alone (9) (iii)
The boys agreed to say nothing about the man, and just say that Tom had got frightened on the Ghost Train. Tom had expected mum to be angry with him...
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Tom All Alone (9) (ii)
The car swung abruptly towards the doors, forcing Tom to lean against the man, and then the doors clattered shut behind them and they were into the...
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Tom All Alone (9) (i)
I've published this piece before, in another novel. But I've lifted it out and rewritten it. It rightly belongs in 'Tom All Alone'. Apologies to...
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Thanks, Di. It's old stuff,
Posted on Wed, 25 Feb 2026
Thanks, Di. It's old stuff, but I'm reworking it. I gave up on it because it didn't seem to be going anywhere. I mistakenly thought it needed a plot. Now I realise it doesn't. Like life.
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Another enthralling story,
Posted on Wed, 25 Feb 2026
Another enthralling story, Lille Dante. Not a word wasted, and every one doing its job - like the sense of time being wrung dry for what there is left of it.
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Or forgetfulness!
Posted on Sat, 21 Feb 2026
Or forgetfulness!
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An enthralling read, Jane -
Posted on Fri, 20 Feb 2026
An enthralling read, Jane - and as an ex-distance runner (did it for 30 years and only stopped because of increasing injuries) I can say you've captured the essence of it perfectly. Are you a runner yourself? It's funny, but I sometimes felt - on...
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Makes me think of times as a
Posted on Sat, 21 Feb 2026
Makes me think of times as a kid when I stood beside mum while she made cakes. Best bit was when I got to scrape the bowl out afterwards. And always that cup with no handle there.
So well captured in these few well-chosen words and images...
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Yes... I too was wondering!
Posted on Thu, 19 Feb 2026
Yes... I too was wondering! Is it a way of saying 'being at the end of a room', like a book-end? Or is he a demolition man, maybe? Not an idiom I've come across.
I envy you never having seen it. You've now got the first-time pleasure to...
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This is an enthralling read
Posted on Thu, 19 Feb 2026
This is an enthralling read which, sadly, I've had to whizz through - but will come back to when I have more time later. First-person has always been my preferred mode, but I'm experimenting with more third-person narratives. Each has their...
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'She’s the last page torn
Posted on Wed, 18 Feb 2026
'She’s the last page torn from a book
That followed a journey the length of time
But she doesn’t know she’s there'
Wonderful images - and so evocative.
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'Canine Pup Resuscitation'
Posted on Tue, 17 Feb 2026
'Canine Pup Resuscitation'
Great story. Well-deserved gilded fruit!
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So did we! We never actually
Posted on Thu, 12 Feb 2026
So did we! We never actually booked anywhere - just took pot luck. And we were always lucky. I remember even in the early '80s, we went down to Devon for a holiday one year and managed to get a caravan on a farm site near Totnes with no trouble,...
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