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7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 921649 times
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563 of my 12,157 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 577 votes
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Uncle John and Jimmy.
Da didn’t believe in noise. He’d be sitting at the grill with the wireless on the window making toast and listening to Radio Athlone. Even from the...
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The Omen
Mum and Da weren’t to know that Damien would become synonymous with the devil. David Seltzer the screenwriter for supernatural horror The Omen ,...
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Damian, Damien and demons.
Mum was aged thirty when she had me. She’d already lost her first-born son, which sounds like a form of carelessness, as if she’d put him in a reed...
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Ernie Platt 1940—2015
Ernie Platt 1940—2015 Ernie was born in 1940. No football, no rugby, no golf, and the Scottish Grand National won by ‘no race run’, but at least...
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SEV 4
I was still at school and watching Space 1999 on the telly, when SEV wafted into the living room stinking of booze and fag smoke. He slapped the back...
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I wonder if cats do laugh? I
Posted on Wed, 05 May 2021
I wonder if cats do laugh? I've seen them dreaming. Laughing?
Read full commentPosted in "Willow's Tail" 6
cheers drew, I tend to breene
Posted on Tue, 27 Apr 2021
cheers drew, I tend to breene through breeges in every story I write in a breengish manner of breenge-noirness
Read full commentPosted in Sooz 5
bluebells are very watery
Posted on Mon, 26 Apr 2021
bluebells are very watery when you strim them. The green folliage and sky blue are a heavenly mix.
Read full commentPosted in Bluebells
well, Jenny, you're blessed
Posted on Tue, 27 Apr 2021
well, Jenny, you're blessed to be able to read and write in peace. For those without that gift are poorer in my thnking by far.
Read full commentPosted in Sunrise
It's a cat's life, a bit like
Posted on Sun, 25 Apr 2021
It's a cat's life, a bit like a dog's life, but smarter. keep it going.
Read full commentPosted in "Willow's Tail" 4
cynics need more than leather
Posted on Sun, 18 Apr 2021
cynics need more than leather gloves, but leather hearts. Mines works just fine.
Read full commentPosted in For The Thorns
I wandered off a few times
Posted on Fri, 16 Apr 2021
I wandered off a few times too, it''s always good to remember. The American accent makes it special. It doesn't show what you were thinking, but it does show what you were thinking moment.
Read full commentPosted in Icecream
I've no knowledge of music
Posted on Wed, 07 Apr 2021
I've no knowledge of music but have heard the name Stravnsky and I might even have heard riot of spring. As your poem shows, listening to music is classless. We all appreciate beauty, but in different ways.
Read full commentPosted in The Riot of Spring (Pictures of Pagan Russia 1913)
thanks insert, you don't miss
Posted on Sat, 03 Apr 2021
thanks insert, you don't miss much, apart from writing...get to it.
Read full commentPosted in Sooz
I'm not sure James II thought
Posted on Fri, 02 Apr 2021
I'm not sure James II thought it silly to embrace Cathlicism. He was Catholic. I guess we can thing it silly now, but with tens of thousands of life lost, well it gave us William of Orange and changed history.
Read full commentPosted in Thank God It's Good Friday! (and April Fools) By Alfred N.Muggins
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