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Angel 68 (long night)
Late the night before, she’d walked down to the corner shop to get out of the house, took a notion, and brought a fish supper back with her. Adam...
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good tears and bad.
I used to have the run of the house, said Nanny Anna. When I was wee I was always with my mammie’s mammie and she kept me right. I always got my own...
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Angel 67 (night calls)
Angel didn’t want to think about the funeral. She tried to stop her tears, because it wasn’t fair on Adam. She didn’t want him to see her crying all...
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the search for the new Dalai Lama
After the death of His Holiness, the fourteen Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, the search for the fifteenth and final Dalai Lama began. In the partial...
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Spaghettio
‘What’s this?’ Molly asked. Before Spaghettio had time to answer the phone rung, which was unusual, but not unknown as they were ‘courting’ as Molly’...
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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
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)
some readers give cherries,
Posted on Sat, 28 Jul 2018
some readers give cherries, some don't. It's nice, like hundreds and thousands on top of ice cream, or even cherry and ice cream, but the ice cream tastes the same.
Read full commentPosted in Short Cherry Rant
Steve's not a hero. He just
Posted on Fri, 01 Sep 2017
Steve's not a hero. He just likes stabbing you in the stomach. He picks his victims well in advance by hanging around hip-replacement wards.
Read full commentPosted in Now I'm Bionic Second Part
first person isn't generally
Posted on Fri, 26 May 2017
first person isn't generally regarded as omniscient. s/he can only see or feel what they see or feel. nothing beyond the subject. Limited point of view.
Read full commentPosted in Taking the Fourth
Grandad smiled[,] nodding
Posted on Thu, 01 Oct 2015
Grandad smiled[,] nodding
Occasionally he pause[d] bit muddled here as you've got Jake interrupting himself and taking over the conversation with himself, but you mean he takes over the convesation with Toby...
Brilliant. characters...
Read full commentPosted in Jake Mutant - Chapter Three
honesty helps with understand
Posted on Mon, 27 Jul 2015
honesty helps with understand and with understanding we learn that we are all human, all falliable and all unique in our wrongness which makes it alright. Peace be with you.
Read full commentPosted in Byrd Jones, Teacher and Grandfather
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