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My stories have been read 3078489 times
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1745 of my 15,867 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1786 votes
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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, the haddocks are terrible
Posted on Fri, 24 Oct 2025
ah, the haddocks are terrible gossip when they've had a few pints of seawater.
Read full commentPosted in The Concept of Rain at a Jaunty Angle
ah, if death could make us
Posted on Tue, 21 Oct 2025
ah, if death could make us better than we are this is the cure.
Read full commentPosted in Why does it always rain in graveyards?
Jesus. That's hard to read.
Posted on Tue, 21 Oct 2025
Jesus. That's hard to read. Impossible to life with. Yet, for so many, that was their life. To think so many children are escorted to and from school gates. And to imagine the reality of that kind of reality. That kind of short life.
Read full commentPosted in Crying Against The Dying Of The Light
I'd a Mrs Bridges at school.
Posted on Thu, 16 Oct 2025
I'd a Mrs Bridges at school. That was the actual teacher's name. She taught me for two years. I wasn't on of her favourites. She wasn't one of mine. Mrs Boyle asked that question when we were in Primary 2. I said I wanted to be a binman. She was...
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creative hands enchant god.
Posted on Sun, 12 Oct 2025
creative hands enchant god. creative words bring god onboard.
Read full commentPosted in Floki's Viking Spirit
As my da used to say, 'Whit
Posted on Sun, 12 Oct 2025
As my da used to say, 'Whit dae yeh think that is? A piano?' he was talking about the phone in the hall, we weren't meant to use. You're talking about you. Yes, it is a piano. And I like it.
Read full commentPosted in Clavicembalo col piano e forte
some stories are worth re
Posted on Thu, 12 Nov 2015
some stories are worth re-reading.
Read full commentPosted in That's Life ( Pt 4 )
Blood is time. Well spent
Posted on Sat, 04 Oct 2025
Blood is time. Well spent here.
Read full commentPosted in The language of the leaves
ah, the sad truth.
Posted on Sat, 04 Oct 2025
ah, the sad truth.
Read full commentPosted in That's Life ( Pt 1 ) Leaving: This is for Di
well done, I'd like to say.
Posted on Thu, 02 Oct 2025
well done, I'd like to say. And hip-hip-hurray. Happy ending today.
Read full commentPosted in All's Well That Ends Well
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