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Assorted writers' groups, the odd anthology, occasional readings.  Lots of looking out of the window.  Hello, and thanks for dropping by.

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Readings of Episodes One and Two of the Pad Life Journals are now available on Sound Cloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-968566758   More to follow!

 

 

 

 

830 of my comments have received 887 Great Feedback votes

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No, sorry, you have to finish

Posted on Tue, 05 Apr 2016

No, sorry, you have to finish it.  Soon as possible.  Please. 

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Posted in Crisp

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This is a really interesting

Posted on Thu, 24 Mar 2016

This is a really interesting read - I love the mix of fact and personal reminiscence.  I've never read 'A Kid For Two Farthings' but I remember seeing the film on telly years ago.   As far as I recall Diana Dors was in it - which sounds  unlikely...

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Posted in Unseen Britain - Whitechapel, Wolf Mankowitz, George Bernard Shaw

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I like the fact that there is

Posted on Mon, 21 Mar 2016

I like the fact that there is no compromise in this - it is a genuine shock when there is no rescue for Dawn.  The crows convey so well the sense of a primeval power at work, and I felt the story was at its best in the passages describing that...

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Posted in A gathering of crows part 2

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Poor Josiah!  I'm not sure he

Posted on Tue, 15 Mar 2016

Poor Josiah!  I'm not sure he can take much more!

I loved the brief moment of tenderness when Lawrence contemplated his wife's beauty (before she opened her mouth) and the phrase 'like a vulture with piles' made me laugh out loud. 

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Posted in Bring Out Your Dead - Part 12

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Reads much smoother and if

Posted on Sun, 13 Mar 2016

Reads much smoother and if anything even creepier!  Absorbing and disturbing.

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Posted in On this wild October Evening

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I really like this - very

Posted on Sun, 13 Mar 2016

I really like this - very descriptive and I like the circular construction.  Genuine feeling of malice and the pacing works really well. 

I think it needs a bit of proof reading - there are some bits I had to read over a couple of times to...

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Posted in On this wild October Evening

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Hi, welcome to ABC Tales.

Posted on Sat, 12 Mar 2016

Hi, welcome to ABC Tales.

Interesting opening and lots of potential for moving forward.  I think it would benefit from some proof-reading - there's a mix of tenses in the beginning which is confusing for the reader, and in your penultimate...

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Posted in Searching for Change ch.1

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Loved these last two episodes

Posted on Sat, 05 Mar 2016

Loved these last two episodes - getting stronger as it goes.  One day you will have to tell us the story of what I suspect was a very mixed Isle of Wight honeymoon!

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Posted in Bring Out Your Dead - Part 10

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I've been watching the recent

Posted on Sat, 05 Mar 2016

I watched the recent TV series on the Inca - they had a similar idea of different layers or types of time co-existing for each individual.  Fascinating. 

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Posted in Pacha

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Arrival of the Conquistadors?

Posted on Sat, 05 Mar 2016

Arrival of the Conquistadors?  Or, as celtic says, a particularly hot night in Ibiza?

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