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grimms11
Despite smirry rain, Jaz and his two pals, Godge and Rab are drinking bottles of wine and messing about on the canal. They've hollowed a shallow boat...
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grimms10
Outside the wind carries the rain and it spills against my room window, but it’s not really that cold. I’m tucked up cosy in bed. I know all the...
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grimms9
We’re playing statues in the hall. I’m at the front door, trying to sneak up on Angela in her house. Her mum has come into some money and bought her...
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epistle to auld Nick
Friday the 13th today That fills some with dismay Auld Nick an Epistle to thee No need to appear or reply to me We’ll see each other soon enough...
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grimms8
There’s nothing else to do. Pizza Face and me with our duffle hoods up, in driving rain, are kicking a ball against the washhouse wall, playing...
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yes, nothing to do with
Posted on Fri, 03 Jan 2020
yes, nothing to do with global warming - apparently!
Read full commentPosted in You can’t cling to something once it has gone.
happy sad. sad happy,
Posted on Mon, 23 Dec 2019
happy sad. sad happy, sometimes we settle for the crappy.
Read full commentPosted in The Day Before Christmas
good story, but the changing
Posted on Tue, 17 Dec 2019
good story, but the changing point of view weakens it. I'd suggest make it his story or her story.
Read full commentPosted in Strings of Desire (A working title)
200 years doesn't sound like
Posted on Mon, 16 Dec 2019
200 years doesn't sound like rapid change, but I guess it's all a matter of perspective.
Read full commentPosted in Creative Media and Sales : Ch.16d The Decline of Civilisation
Lovely story and true too.
Posted on Wed, 11 Dec 2019
Lovely story and true too.
Read full commentPosted in Author's Day
I'm a bit like you, I've
Posted on Sat, 30 Nov 2019
I'm a bit like you, I've heard of J.K.Rowling. Haven't read any Harry Potter. But I have hear the myth around how she was working in an Edinburgh coffeeshop...being turned down 12 times is nothing. I've heard of Sheldon, watched a bit of The Big...
Read full commentPosted in Jim Parsons and J.K. Rowling.
gritty and grimy, so he's a
Posted on Sat, 30 Nov 2019
gritty and grimy, so he's a cop, interesting. terriific wring. whose story is it, Gallacher or Crowe's? If it's Crowe's the descripton of him given (change of point of view) by Gallacher needs a bit of work and kinda jams the narrative.
Read full commentPosted in A Quality of inertia (WIP)
Word origin of 'vade mecum'
Posted on Tue, 26 Nov 2019
Word origin of 'vade mecum'
C17: from Latin, literally: go with me
I will walk with you a while in your writing. Alan Bennet's idea of reading as a hand held out which you grasp. Munch's scream is so popular because it allows for...
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Amen.
Posted on Fri, 22 Nov 2019
Amen.
Read full commentPosted in He Who is Sent
a little grace is poetry that
Posted on Sun, 17 Nov 2019
a little grace is poetry that stretches the soul of even hungry ghosts.
Read full commentPosted in Second thoughts
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