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WMD 2
‘You want me to add some vinegar to this water?’ I asked. ‘For old time’s sake.’ ‘Nah, just give it to me straight.’ He tried to raise His head, but...
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WMD
I got a fright when I heard something banging against the window and a pair of eyes looking in at me. While most folk are asleep, I write on my...
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Grimms 101
‘How are we gonnae dae it?’ The idea feels jaggy, sticking in Bruno’s gullet. He shakes his head, wets his mouth with saliva and begins again. ‘I...
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winner takes all
Roz was the kind of mum who thought everything happens for a reason. When flicking through her IPhone first thing in the morning her eyes...
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Grimms 100
Bedcovers deaden Tony’s hearing, seals him in the tomb of his dreams, but when he sticks his head out of his bed, he’s alive to the wind rattling...
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drink does that to some.
Posted on Tue, 07 Dec 2021
drink does that to some.
Read full commentPosted in Dear Dads-
poor Bulgars, hemmed in by
Posted on Mon, 06 Dec 2021
poor Bulgars, hemmed in by the Great Powers, like the Irish and Scottish islanders with their peat, cut into blocks, winter to meet. Heat was almost free. It seemed to good to be true. Now on the other foot, pressed down on their neck, what can...
Read full commentPosted in Copse and Robbers
winter had just begun. Long
Posted on Sat, 04 Dec 2021
winter had just begun. Long wait. Hope to get to the end of it and not the end of things.
Read full commentPosted in Nature's Hideaway
we raise the dead every day,
Posted on Fri, 03 Dec 2021
we raise the dead every day, but trees raise the living.
Read full commentPosted in Momijigari
moonsliver, yes I like that,
Posted on Thu, 02 Dec 2021
moonsliver, yes I like that, it brings together touch, time and with a sense of menace.
Read full commentPosted in A is for Angel and Ash Tree
yes, I am blessed too. we
Posted on Thu, 02 Dec 2021
yes, I am blessed too. we take in less refugees than our neighbours France and Germany and in a long list of ther countries, most of them empoverished, our record is we are the 1% they, the poorest, the 99%. Shame on us. I listen, but don't do...
Read full commentPosted in I Can't Get Her Out Of My Head.
we've a few rowan around.
Posted on Fri, 03 Dec 2021
we've a few rowan around. Some are used as hedging. I don't know if it's cold enough for the birds to feed on the berries yet. They are associalted with druids, or so I heard, not knowing any, actual, druids.
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nicley done.
Posted on Mon, 29 Nov 2021
nicley done.
Read full commentPosted in Welig for Paul (marandina)
moblile phones, don't have
Posted on Sun, 28 Nov 2021
moblile phones, don't have much time for them, but, hey, sometimes we wish...
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Christmas not quite cancelled
Posted on Fri, 26 Nov 2021
Christmas not quite cancelled, but it's the thought that counts.
Read full commentPosted in Christmas Is Cancelled Part Two.
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