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The Girl With Colitis Goes By
We’ve all got them, those song lyrics corrupted somewhere between our ears and our brain cells
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The Net Caster (Part Twenty-Seven)
'You needed someone you could manipulate,' I said. 'You just had to be given the right job,' said Hamish.
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Lustrum (IP) (With apologies to Robert Harris)
It is, or should be, a truth universally acknowledged that a world run by David Attenborough and Mary Beard would be a sane and civilised place and a much better bet than we have at the moment
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The Net Caster (Part Twenty-Six)
'It's government,' said Madam. 'They choose what they will and won't tell the governed. And in this case, they are completely and utterly right.'
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The Net Caster (Part Twenty-Five)
Even the members of the diaspora cannot agree on the best way to save it.
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A truly unsettling poem. Like
Posted on Tue, 04 Mar 2025
A truly unsettling poem. Like you, I've read a few stories about people and their cow encounters. We do tend to forget that cows are very powerful animals and I've read that they're not very keen on humans they don't know. They have my sympathy...
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Marmite is a great and
Posted on Sat, 01 Mar 2025
Marmite is a great and wondrous thing. Sadly, I have failed to convey this indisputable fact to my children, one of whom hates the stuff while the other will tolerate it to be polite when visiting a marmite household. It is a necessary part of my...
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Congratulations on tying it
Posted on Fri, 28 Feb 2025
Congratulations on tying it all up so well. Looking forward to the next enterprise!
Read full commentPosted in So The Story Goes (Dead Reckoning series - Part 50)
I really enjoy writing to
Posted on Sat, 01 Mar 2025
I really enjoy writing to prompts, as you never know where they'll take you. I go to a creative writing group once a month where we do just this, and I particularly enjoy seeing the different ways people interpret the prompts. Similarly, the...
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Nice one. Gossip is as gossip
Posted on Sat, 01 Mar 2025
Nice one. Gossip is as gossip does. He could be a sober monster, of course!
Read full commentPosted in Making this world a bettter place
Pick of the Day
Posted on Sat, 15 Feb 2025
This beautiful reflection on memory is our Sunday Pick of the Day! Please do share if you enjoy it too.
Picture by Pearson Scott Foresman, free to use at Wikimedia Commons: ...
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Some much needed reassurance
Posted on Sat, 15 Feb 2025
Some much needed reassurance that even these days, if you are true to your dreams, you may just win out over all the flash and smugness out there. Very much enjoyed this!
Read full commentPosted in Having perhaps the better claim
This is just brilliant, Rich.
Posted on Sun, 09 Feb 2025
This is just brilliant, Rich. So funny, and scary at the same time.
We think of you often. Hold on in there.
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Poem of the Week
Posted on Mon, 03 Feb 2025
This joyous piece is our Poem of the Week. Congratulations!
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Great fun, Paul! Yes, let's
Posted on Wed, 05 Feb 2025
Great fun, Paul! Yes, let's have some more. Your protagonist could always take on the case of the Giant Rat of Sumatra. I've never forgiven Watson for not writing that one up.
Sorry, great though the old films are, Jeremy Brett is the...
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