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Rust and Dust

By celticman on Wed, 24 Sep 2025

Scratching the styptic strip from under his double chin and craning his neck, the gaffer stared past the Tink as if trying to catch him out. The...

Noir

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Last Great Auk,

By celticman on Wed, 03 Sep 2025

We were caught by the fog. It seemed to have been conjured up and threw milky cataracts into our eyes. White fulmars watched us from their nests. The...

Historical Fiction

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harmers 2

By celticman on Sun, 20 Jul 2025

She dabbed the scab at her wrist shaped like a keyhole. Picking at it. Although she knew she shouldn’t. Dr Malik was on the phone. Always on the...

Philosophy

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wonkness test

By celticman on Sun, 20 Jul 2025

Mussolini, Mein Kampf and our British Empire’s ideology Our struggle, not only on land and sea Our struggle to define ‘we’ Was never wonk work...

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I did have a fight with Marti

Posted on Thu, 15 Aug 2024

I did have a fight with Marti Pellow's brother, we called him Kojak, after he tried to lift a few can from our carry out. Love was all arounds us. So the feeling grows.

Posted in Benches & Hedges

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doubt unravels us, but

Posted on Tue, 23 Apr 2024

doubt unravels us, but sometimes that can be a good thing. the greatest lie may be the one we tell ourselves.

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Yes, she really was saintly

Posted on Thu, 21 Mar 2024

Yes, she really was saintly and human too.

Posted in Remembering Corrie ten Boom

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the moron's moron is German,

Posted on Tue, 19 Mar 2024

the moron's moron is German, obviously. His mother was a wee Free. Obviously too free to have a narcisstic psychopath rapist embezzeler (I might have missed a few, add your own) for a son. We don't count population that way. We include midges,...

Posted in Too Many Tabs Open

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I suppose we all end up with

Posted on Mon, 26 Feb 2024

I suppose we all end up with a woman (or man) we've only know a short while. I guess we'll fall back on they were a different generation. We're a different generation too. Perhaps if we write it down that'll help?

Posted in Muscle memory

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I shaved my dad before he

Posted on Mon, 26 Feb 2024

I shaved my dad before he died. Lived with him and worked with him. Never knew him. The strange thing is my sisters say I'm the dead spit of him. hmmmm.