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My stories have been read 2634295 times
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The Little Lady
I think I deserved a little whisky and water to help me through the interviews. We’d agency doing the cleaning, but I’d told my wife it would be...
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Windfall.
We had a great interest in ghosts, prompted by a fear of being called a shitebag for turning down a dare when we were younger. In a less than spooky...
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Missed You.
My junkie girlfriend sold her body to feed her habit. ‘I’m no doing any harm,’ she said. ‘I sold myself tae you. Look how that fucking worked oot?’ I...
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Tilly cut loose from the day
Tilly cut loose from the day Brightness like a red balloon Utterances dumbstruck with gravity Details don’t matter Holding onto her giggling A...
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Uncle John's Popemobile.
Black specks were moving on the stacked plates of uneaten leftovers and the casual smears of a man that had tried to tidy up. Casualties lay on the...
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I was thinking of that
Posted on Thu, 20 Feb 2025
I was thinking of that earlier. I girl I knew. Smart. Very well-spoken. And, believe it or not, refused the belt. Had a note on her from her 'mum'. How frustrating that was for these dictators.
Read full commentPosted in Mr. Portleven's Electricity Class
cogs and springs. That's how
Posted on Thu, 20 Feb 2025
cogs and springs. That's how old people think. That's how I think. hmm. Cedric is going to cause problems (or why would he be in the story?)
Read full commentPosted in Parcel for you - Part 53
ah, the sweetness of the
Posted on Sat, 15 Feb 2025
ah, the sweetness of the ending, I can almost taste it.
Read full commentPosted in Having perhaps the better claim
nice beat. a good energy,
Posted on Wed, 12 Feb 2025
nice beat. a good energy, which in neat.
Read full commentPosted in Commute
snow is the stuff of dreams
Posted on Wed, 12 Feb 2025
snow is the stuff of dreams and nightmares. You've caught the dream angle.
Read full commentPosted in Snow
you have shared your secrets,
Posted on Mon, 10 Feb 2025
you have shared your secrets, sewn your crop, harvested your ire and desire, created hard frost and fire.
Read full commentPosted in The Garden, that was my domain
you've already got out of
Posted on Mon, 10 Feb 2025
you've already got out of hospital. Your narrator can be two or more places at once. Her life as told be the book and her struggles to escape from the book on the outside (and inside). Look at exorcisms. Always a nice page-turner trick.
Read full commentPosted in The Book: Chapter 12
a lovely biography, Jenny . I
Posted on Sun, 09 Feb 2025
a lovely biography, Jenny . I alway look for snippets of mysely in other's memories.
Read full commentPosted in School Reunion
cauliflower theft is growing.
Posted on Sat, 08 Feb 2025
cauliflower theft is growing. glad they could nip it in the bud.
Read full commentPosted in Paradise found
I don't think many folk would
Posted on Sun, 09 Feb 2025
I don't think many folk would say dementia was a joke.
Read full commentPosted in BITING THE BULLET.
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