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Word of The Year 2018
If the known description of anxiety is true, it begins as a response to the perceived threat of a challenge. Anxiety comes from the gut and fires a...
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Word for wordish
It’s beginning to look a lot like warfare Everywhere you go Take a look at the homeless men Glistening once again With broken canes and silver brow...
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A Deliberate Kindness 2
Walking along the road with his old shopping bag Gerald laughed to himself. He’d won another battle of wills and that was what really mattered in his...
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A Deliberate Kindness 1
In a little charity shop Gerald is deliberating whether to try on a pair of trousers. He has been waiting a few minutes for a cumbersome woman to...
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The Church of Lost Souls 25
We finished the beers quickly and on the walk back to Maria’s I put the glint in her eye down to the drink as we sang and laughed through the...
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Great to read a poem that
Posted on Thu, 13 Nov 2014
Great to read a poem that opens with a joke, curdles as it's stirred and ends with a whip round the midriff for good measure. The abattoir calls for the abortions of life that sit and stare in silent pubs the world over, and the state isn't...
Read full commentPosted in not quite AA, but only 12 steps to the bar
Love the cheesy bit at the
Posted on Mon, 01 Sep 2014
Love the cheesy bit at the end and the dippy sauciness of thought throughout. The atheist idea that we were magically generated from the primordial fart of universal nothingness is funny and I prefer to think we were a heavenly experiment to see...
Read full commentPosted in I expect God will be there
Lovely. I always get a shiver
Posted on Sat, 19 Apr 2014
Lovely. I always get a shiver when I go into church, probably because I'm Satan first born, but I'd dearly love to see some fireplaces dotted around in there. Always found it strange that they don't have chimneys. They'd get a lot more people in...
Read full commentPosted in A Short Muse on Churches
Very good. Sounds like a lazy
Posted on Tue, 01 Apr 2014
Very good. Sounds like a lazy teacher, especially when I read a comment like Vera's. She's said it all, bar the fact that you've captured something here, carefully, that needs to be bottled/ taken upon board the good ship.
Read full commentPosted in Mynydd Carningli (for TP's parents)
Absolutely brilliant! Jake's
Posted on Sun, 02 Mar 2014
Absolutely brilliant! Jake's bee problem is an excellent analogy to the much more dangerous bee that buzzes around Eve's mind. It draws the reader further into Eve's literary dilemma, and the interaction between her and George is polished as well...
Read full commentPosted in A Question of Sanity: Prologue
Breathtaking!
Posted on Mon, 06 Jan 2014
Breathtaking!
Great dialogue driven along by a voice that grips and surprises.
Read full commentPosted in Decisions
Sufferin' succotash,
Posted on Wed, 29 Jan 2014
Sufferin' succotash, Blackjack. This has the perfect balance of measuredness and conscious flow, an unfettered diagnosis of how a man's battle to find and maintain spiritual peace can never be placated by the outside world. Citing the chap next-...
Read full commentPosted in The Man Next Door
Very moving, so much so that
Posted on Tue, 28 Jan 2014
Very moving, so much so that I felt compelled to write something for the first time in what seems like an eternity. Better out than in, and I'm grateful that my Mum's care-home is in good shape compared to many. Thanks, Marion.
Read full commentPosted in Notes on the State of Adult Social Care - 1. The Standard High Backed Chair; Adjustable - Without Wings
Skin-crawlingly spellbinding
Posted on Wed, 11 Dec 2013
Skin-crawlingly spellbinding storytelling smothered in such suspense that it slaps and harries the reader to rest unnervingly close to the children as they run themselves ragged in this house of toxic shame. It doesn't do the mind any favours to ...
Read full commentPosted in One Winter's Day You Will Meet Your Maker
Back with a bang, and how!
Posted on Tue, 14 Jan 2014
Back with a bang, and how! Your words dollop blotches on an already brutish painting, imparting the madness of sexual conquest through the mindset of a badly wired woman. Her insatiable appetite for lost sailors is a madness all its own. Made me...
Read full commentPosted in Her 64th boyfriend
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