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Sooz2
Eddie sat on the top bunk with Fatty Patty spread out like an incontinence blanket with bumps. He’d a fag in his mouth and he scowled at the doll. ‘...
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Sooz
It all started as a bit of a joke. Eddie was toying with his cheesecake and having a smoke. His ginger hair had begun to retreat from his forehead...
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g81
I lived in the armpits of the world, but it wasn’t like me to leave work early. I’d a good job at Boots the Chemist, with prospects, but my skin...
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Uncle John and Jimmy.
Da didn’t believe in noise. He’d be sitting at the grill with the wireless on the window making toast and listening to Radio Athlone. Even from the...
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The Omen
Mum and Da weren’t to know that Damien would become synonymous with the devil. David Seltzer the screenwriter for supernatural horror The Omen ,...
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tragic, like you I don't have
Posted on Sat, 01 Dec 2018
tragic, like you I don't have an answer. Poverty, not morals is the key. We use the latter as a scapegoat, a standared practice by, for example, Jenhovah Witnesses to get a foot in the door, is to say how much worse the world is getting. They've...
Read full commentPosted in When Death Comes Too Soon
I didn't like my dad. You
Posted on Thu, 14 Jan 2021
I didn't like my dad. You always get that assertion dressed as a question, aye, but you must have loved him? No. The strange thing is every year that passes I get more like him. This too will pass is the obvious piece of advice. But there's no...
Read full commentPosted in How do you forgive a parent?
to teach them a lesson.. Yeh
Posted on Fri, 03 Jul 2020
to teach them a lesson.. Yeh, that about sums up genocide.
Read full commentPosted in Pins (6)
lovely. words that bewitch.
Posted on Wed, 22 Apr 2020
lovely. words that bewitch. images that travel. wisdom in poetic form.
Read full commentPosted in I Want To Tell You Things
I did read a couple of posts
Posted on Wed, 25 Mar 2020
I did read a couple of posts about Charles and Camilla. And a story in The Guardian (so it must be true) that they didn't jump any hospital queues. They are 71 and 72. I almost feel sorry for the future king and his consort. It wasn't that long...
Read full commentPosted in Just Put Me In The Fridge
oh, well, as long as you don
Posted on Sat, 14 Dec 2019
oh, well, as long as you don't talk about politics...
Read full commentPosted in The Worst
children's language is a
Posted on Sun, 28 Jul 2019
children's language is a thing of joy.
Read full commentPosted in West Wales
I'm a great friend of the
Posted on Wed, 15 May 2019
I'm a great friend of the potato, humble potato, hot potato, mashed potato. swanny potato.
Read full commentPosted in The Identity of the Potato and the Swan
you reap what you sow, if it
Posted on Sun, 17 Mar 2019
you reap what you sow, if it were only so. The world would be so much better But as we can see, all people in poverty would agree. Those of wealth and no little stealth. What would they say, but life's weather made me that way.
Read full commentPosted in The Three Fields of You
well, I thnk you handled the
Posted on Sat, 10 Nov 2018
well, I thnk you handled the situation very humanely and if that's normal for people with Aspereger's then I'd like more people to be diagnosed.
Read full commentPosted in Gift: A Son's Story (Push)
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