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Tom All Alone (11)
The summer arrived with its long days and balmy, sometimes sticky evenings and nights. Things seemed more settled and relaxed in the summer. No need...
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Tom All Alone (10)
The days and weeks passed, and gradually the incident at the fair faded into the background. Things went on as normal at home. Tom still played with...
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Pull
(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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Ha ha! And a killer put-down!
Posted on Tue, 02 Jun 2026
Ha ha! And a killer put-down! Brings back bad memories of fumbling dates.
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Yes, exactly. My parents
Posted on Tue, 26 May 2026
Yes, exactly. My parents weren't especially religious - but dad would never allow me to go out to play on Sundays, whereas our Catholic neighbour's kids were always allowed out. So I used to sit by the window and look out enviously at them...
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Thanks, Angus. These are the
Posted on Mon, 25 May 2026
Thanks, Angus. These are the sorts of thoughts and observations that have been in my head a lot recently, so I had a lot of nods of recognition. Lots of echoes and sad smiles.
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Thanks, Kat. It was arguing -
Posted on Thu, 21 May 2026
Thanks, Kat. It was arguing - and always about money, as I later found out. Dad, bless him, had problems with it. Drink and gambling. We had a lot of uncertainty and disruption. Some times, he'd go off for days and we wouldn't know where he was....
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Thanks, Claudine.
Posted on Thu, 21 May 2026
Thanks, Claudine.
I've been struggling with writing lately, and this short piece has taken weeks. I have an end in sight, but the closer I get, the harder it gets. Stirs stuff up, I suppose.
Thanks for the cherries!
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Thanks, Claudine. That boy
Posted on Thu, 23 Apr 2026
Thanks, Claudine. That boy might well have been me! My first day was awful. In the end, I think they had to drag me in.
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Yes, it was optimistic -
Posted on Thu, 23 Apr 2026
Yes, it was optimistic - perhaps more so once the Cuban Missile Crisis was over. I was too young to know what it was about, but I remember mum saying how fearful everyone was - glued to the papers and the TV news. We had a black and white TV, too...
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Thanks, Marandina. Others
Posted on Thu, 23 Apr 2026
Thanks, Marandina. Others have mentioned the detail. I have to pull myself back a bit sometimes because I end up with pages of descriptive stuff like that. I think it's perhaps the lasting influence of reading Barry Hines' 'Kes' as a teen. I...
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One year, I got cast as the
Posted on Thu, 23 Apr 2026
One year, I got cast as the innkeeper. All I had to do was open a side door in the church when Mary and Joseph knocked, and point them along to the 'stable' in the nave. I was so terrified that I opened the door quickly, pointed my finger (nearly...
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Thanks, Kat. I'm afraid I've
Posted on Thu, 23 Apr 2026
Thanks, Kat. I'm afraid I've been out of action writing-wise for a few weeks now. Too pre-occupied with other stuff going on in the world. Starting to get a bit of focus back now.
I agree about Lux. It seemed to be shaped to turn easily in...
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