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Grimms 80
‘What’s been the crack then?’ Del stands at the front door, a cigarette jammed between his lips. A clean white open-necked shirt sleeves contrast...
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the independent cluase
Head filled with different kinds of wrongness rightness and onscreen brightness squared aye by large numbers two points resistance to three points...
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Grimms 79
Tony’s social worker, Marie, arrives on an official visit. She waits for him in the office. Dayshift-staff circle around, Julie flustered, leaves her...
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Grimms 78
Fag smoke drifts above Pizza Face’s head. His is a frightened silence amid bickering conversation and accusations of neglect. The last of the sun...
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Grimms77
Junior hurries home. Tired and hungry, his hair sun-washed and lighter than his brothers’, he finds virtue in manual labour, skin lightly tanned and...
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Putin wants to make Russia
Posted on Wed, 15 Jun 2022
Putin wants to make Russia great again. (sound familiar?)
Read full commentPosted in Putin Times : More Thoughts by Alfred Muggins (Part 3)
we all remeber differently,
Posted on Sun, 12 Jun 2022
we all remeber differently, but there is a sameness about it.
Read full commentPosted in Anniversary
yeh, funny how leaflets or
Posted on Wed, 08 Jun 2022
yeh, funny how leaflets or couples holding hands when you're getting sterilised. He knew she was there by the way she turned the door handle. that's a truth.
Read full commentPosted in S T Vasectomy Clinic - (11)
I wonder if it's the same
Posted on Tue, 07 Jun 2022
I wonder if it's the same girl left behind by her father when he attacked the Roundheads.
Read full commentPosted in The Castle (16)
I'm old enough to remember
Posted on Sun, 05 Jun 2022
I'm old enough to remember Starship: We built this city on rock and roll. Great story, but I'd have made the protagonist the opposite sex. Cliched, I know.
Read full commentPosted in Mole
hope again, is always good.
Posted on Sun, 05 Jun 2022
hope again, is always good.
Read full commentPosted in A Fox In A Moon Night
I could do with that button
Posted on Fri, 03 Jun 2022
I could do with that button to jolt my memory. And there is sometihing about long corridors that are offputting.
Read full commentPosted in 1:1:3 Dreaming (Part 2)
yeh, these times do promote a
Posted on Thu, 02 Jun 2022
yeh, these times do promote a sense of unreality. Kansas is as good a place as anywhere There's no place like home.
Read full commentPosted in Back In Kansas
yes, the mystery deepens. You
Posted on Thu, 02 Jun 2022
yes, the mystery deepens. You've captured it well.
Read full commentPosted in Leaving The Nest
putin's war has been a
Posted on Tue, 31 May 2022
putin's war has been a disaster. But you're right about the possible invasion of these other Eastern European nations. That would mean world war, of course. Putin realises that now. Or so we think. Brinkmanship
Read full commentPosted in Curiosity Killed The Cat : A Day In The Life Of Alfred Muggins In Turkey (He Daydreams of the Rise and Fall of Empires)
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