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the lost manuscript.
A self-confessed failure at writing. It made it easier if anybody asked, but they never did. Kittiwakes and guillemots were an orchestra for Damien’s...
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Atrocious
The phone rang. I was reading up in a cupboard. In the hallway, at the top of the stairs. It was full of books, and I’ve a lamp and desk, but it...
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After the Wedding.
We arrived tired and late at the hotel. Rush hour traffic on the M8. Tailbacks. Too few petrol stations and endless road blocks scoured what was left...
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the claimant.
That morning, a husband and wife team—physiotherapist and psychologist—shot him a glance in the stairwell. Dr Sim always took the stairs. He knew...
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run-of-the-mill sexual assault.
I guess it was a classic run-of-the-mill sexual assault. I hadn’t thought about it in a long while. Until one of my wife’s friends said something,...
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ah, superpowers. I'd love one
Posted on Sun, 08 Sep 2024
ah, superpowers. I'd love one, but the price is too high.
Read full commentPosted in A hundred moments in autism - A trip to the cinema
I used to get hot flushes
Posted on Thu, 28 Mar 2024
I used to get hot flushes when I tried to talk to any beautiful girls I'd been at school with. I used the 15 pints and I was ready to roar, rather than the Erazofuge. As I got older I tried cutting down to a reasonable 12 pints. But I had to up...
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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
red, red, and read. There
Posted on Sun, 01 Sep 2024
red, red, and read. There should be rage, but it is hidden in pop-up stories.
Read full commentPosted in They Were Only Children
I did have a fight with Marti
Posted on Thu, 15 Aug 2024
I did have a fight with Marti Pellow's brother, we called him Kojak, after he tried to lift a few can from our carry out. Love was all arounds us. So the feeling grows.
Read full commentPosted in Benches & Hedges
doubt unravels us, but
Posted on Tue, 23 Apr 2024
doubt unravels us, but sometimes that can be a good thing. the greatest lie may be the one we tell ourselves.
Read full commentPosted in Doubt
Yes, she really was saintly
Posted on Thu, 21 Mar 2024
Yes, she really was saintly and human too.
Read full commentPosted in Remembering Corrie ten Boom
the moron's moron is German,
Posted on Tue, 19 Mar 2024
the moron's moron is German, obviously. His mother was a wee Free. Obviously too free to have a narcisstic psychopath rapist embezzeler (I might have missed a few, add your own) for a son. We don't count population that way. We include midges,...
Read full commentPosted in Too Many Tabs Open
I suppose we all end up with
Posted on Mon, 26 Feb 2024
I suppose we all end up with a woman (or man) we've only know a short while. I guess we'll fall back on they were a different generation. We're a different generation too. Perhaps if we write it down that'll help?
Read full commentPosted in Muscle memory
I shaved my dad before he
Posted on Mon, 26 Feb 2024
I shaved my dad before he died. Lived with him and worked with him. Never knew him. The strange thing is my sisters say I'm the dead spit of him. hmmmm.
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