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I have 1210 stories published in
7 collections on the site.
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Love Story 24
I’d kissed Ali’s cheek when we left the church. Felt the novelty and glad feeling of having done the right thing. Even though Mum didn’t say so, I...
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Love Story 23
It rained every day and everything closed in before the funeral. Mum had time for a fag before we got into the chauffeured car. The cortege set off,...
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Love Story 22
The Constable looked too small to be a cop even on his tiptoes. A parvenu in uniform just out of the wrapper did little to disguise his weedy build...
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Love Story 21
Da groaned and leaned on me as he lowered himself to the floor and shut his eyes. ‘Don’t die, Da,’ I wailed as he sucked in each breath in and blew...
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Love Story 20
I wore my smartest clothes and shined my shoes before we set off to the Police Station at Hall Street. Nobody else hurrying along the canal in the...
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makes sense of a kind of
Posted on Thu, 11 Dec 2025
makes sense of a kind of sadness.
Read full commentPosted in The Day, Every Day
ah, GlosKat, I think I need
Posted on Wed, 10 Dec 2025
ah, GlosKat, I think I need an eye test. Ludwig Wittgenstein: What a picture must have in common with reality in order to represent it after its manner—rightly or falsely—is its form of representation. We see what we think we see, even if we don'...
Read full commentPosted in R&D 5
violence is believing it's
Posted on Thu, 11 Dec 2025
violence is believing it's necessary as you show.
Read full commentPosted in Variable
cheers TJ, who knows what
Posted on Wed, 10 Dec 2025
cheers TJ, who knows what path we take? Not Abraham. Not me.
Read full commentPosted in R&D 5
I wondered where Pudgy
Posted on Tue, 09 Dec 2025
I wondered where Pudgy Maxwell's van went to. He might well have sold it to your dad. He'd drag two seats out of the pub, with a punter standing in the middle. Bit shuggly. But good enough to get you to the Celtic match. Pope John Paul II...
Read full commentPosted in A Hare's Breath 1 - The Van
aye and aye, sadly true.
Posted on Tue, 09 Dec 2025
aye and aye, sadly true. where are we noo?
Read full commentPosted in The Big Picture
the poet in you, indeed,
Posted on Thu, 04 Dec 2025
the poet in you, indeed, Jenny.
Read full commentPosted in Happiness Of Anticipating Inspiration
to be out and about is poetry
Posted on Tue, 02 Dec 2025
to be out and about is poetry to bring home.
Read full commentPosted in "Winter Constitutional"
Radost to the water boards.
Posted on Thu, 27 Nov 2025
Radost to the water boards. Radost to the moron's moron, Farage and Le Pan all whose incomes have received a signficant boots from our Russian friends. Radocst to the Tory Scum Party. I was going to say something about snakes. I think you've...
Read full commentPosted in Nor Any Drop to Drink
I think the wee guy in flip
Posted on Fri, 28 Nov 2025
I think the wee guy in flip flops played for the Peru team that beat us 2-0 in the 1970 world cup. the stars there were in alignment with the pub. I don't want to diminish your great achievement, but we really should have beaten them.
Read full commentPosted in Inca Ice and Lupins
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