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I have 1216 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 3543861 times and 1252 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1892 of my 16,115 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1951 votes

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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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Love Story 4.

I tearfully confided in Colin in a side room in the church, where we stacked extra chairs we never used. But God willing, might someday. I didn’t...
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Love Story 3

The furrows on my da’s forehead stood like stepping stones to his thoughts. The measured way he lowered the back paged of the Daily Record’s sports...
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Love Story 2

I wasn’t fully Baptised in the Spirit. Which to some church members meant I wasn’t baptised. Our prayer leader, Colin, spoke in tongues. So I was...

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1892 of my comments have received 1951 Great Feedback votes

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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. 

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Posted in Naming Tree

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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...

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Posted in Turlough Ó Carolan's Farewell to Turlough Ó Maoláin

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the newspaper nobody ever

Posted on Sun, 09 Nov 2025

the newspaper nobody ever read. Must be the Egyptian equivalent of the Sun. 

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Posted in Alexandria

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much I sadly find myself

Posted on Sun, 09 Nov 2025

much I sadly find myself agreeing with here. Backward steps for humanity. 

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Posted in Victory In Europe Day 8th of May 2025 : Hollow Victory Celebration After Almost 80 Years of Success and Peace

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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. 

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Posted in Why does it always rain in graveyards?

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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. 

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Posted in Crying Against The Dying Of The Light

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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...

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Posted in At Home in the Pause

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creative hands enchant god.

Posted on Sun, 12 Oct 2025

creative hands enchant god. creative words bring god onboard. 

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Posted in Floki's Viking Spirit

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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. 

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Posted in Clavicembalo col piano e forte

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some stories are worth re

Posted on Thu, 12 Nov 2015

some stories are worth re-reading. 

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Posted in That's Life ( Pt 4 )

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