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My stories have been read 3509382 times
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Love Story 9
Jealousy was an accidental sin. Like stabbing your mum in the eye with a fork, while explaining something which you’d forgotten to mention, but she...
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Love Story 8
I agreed to go with Pastor Colin on a mission. He expected me to know what it was without telling me. His silver Ford Escort was more reliable. He...
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Love Story 7
‘I’m not going to school,’ I said. ‘How no?’ she asked. ‘Cause,’ my voice cracked and went up a notch. ‘I’m no well.’ Her arm shot out and a cupped...
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Love Story 6
I vowed to God I’d work hard and turn myself around and no longer look at the stuck-together catalogue pages even if they were just sitting there...
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Love Story 5
Her underactive imagination had me thinking for both of us. How we should behave since we kinda agreed not to get formally engaged until I could...
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ah, but no leaky teapots,
Posted on Mon, 10 Nov 2025
ah, but no leaky teapots, Turlough. Always that missing piece.
Read full commentPosted in Naming Tree
in the annnals of wandering
Posted on Mon, 10 Nov 2025
in the annnals of wandering about fields field, I've never seen so much dedication. You deserve all the honours of the broken teapot. Long may your luminary reek. There hasn't been such dedicated tramping since the potato and toilet-roll famine...
Read full commentPosted in Turlough Ó Carolan's Farewell to Turlough Ó Maoláin
the newspaper nobody ever
Posted on Sun, 09 Nov 2025
the newspaper nobody ever read. Must be the Egyptian equivalent of the Sun.
Read full commentPosted in Alexandria
much I sadly find myself
Posted on Sun, 09 Nov 2025
much I sadly find myself agreeing with here. Backward steps for humanity.
Read full commentPosted in Victory In Europe Day 8th of May 2025 : Hollow Victory Celebration After Almost 80 Years of Success and Peace
ah, if death could make us
Posted on Tue, 21 Oct 2025
ah, if death could make us better than we are this is the cure.
Read full commentPosted in Why does it always rain in graveyards?
Jesus. That's hard to read.
Posted on Tue, 21 Oct 2025
Jesus. That's hard to read. Impossible to life with. Yet, for so many, that was their life. To think so many children are escorted to and from school gates. And to imagine the reality of that kind of reality. That kind of short life.
Read full commentPosted in Crying Against The Dying Of The Light
I'd a Mrs Bridges at school.
Posted on Thu, 16 Oct 2025
I'd a Mrs Bridges at school. That was the actual teacher's name. She taught me for two years. I wasn't on of her favourites. She wasn't one of mine. Mrs Boyle asked that question when we were in Primary 2. I said I wanted to be a binman. She was...
Read full commentPosted in At Home in the Pause
creative hands enchant god.
Posted on Sun, 12 Oct 2025
creative hands enchant god. creative words bring god onboard.
Read full commentPosted in Floki's Viking Spirit
As my da used to say, 'Whit
Posted on Sun, 12 Oct 2025
As my da used to say, 'Whit dae yeh think that is? A piano?' he was talking about the phone in the hall, we weren't meant to use. You're talking about you. Yes, it is a piano. And I like it.
Read full commentPosted in Clavicembalo col piano e forte
some stories are worth re
Posted on Thu, 12 Nov 2015
some stories are worth re-reading.
Read full commentPosted in That's Life ( Pt 4 )
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