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Goatie 6
The cells below the station. A place of grey and dark colours. Banging doors and the shouts of ‘Turnkey, Turnkey’ and the stink of a dog fight to the...
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Goatie 5
All of a sudden your life is not what it was. Your brain does its best to catch up. I don’t know what’s happening. I feel like greeting, or giving...
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Goatie 4
The intercom is broken. Hughie can’t buzz me in, but somebody has solved the problem by wedging a brown bin in front of the reinforced door. I’ve...
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Goatie 3
I slept tranquilly. It gets to the stage where you become acclimatised to anything. Even prisoners at Auschwitz slept soundly. I’m in pretend mode...
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Goatie 2
I ponder my sleep-walking predicament. Apparently, I’m superhuman able to drink a glass of water without waking. I remember a case in which a man had...
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I'm sure Mr Muggins doesn't
Posted on Sat, 21 Sep 2024
I'm sure Mr Muggins doesn't confuse the revolutinary Arthur Scargill with Sir Keir Stammer, bastion of the British middle-class system.
Read full commentPosted in The New King Arthur Slays His First Dragon! By Alfred N.Muggins
I couldn't really get into
Posted on Sat, 21 Sep 2024
I couldn't really get into Hilary Mantel's books, but I know of the musician from the wonderful telly programme. Love even for the lowly, especially, for the lowly, can be cruel and torturous. Literally, as you show.
Read full commentPosted in Letter To Anne Boleyn From Mark Smeaton
we're all lightening bugs on
Posted on Sat, 21 Sep 2024
we're all lightening bugs on the breeze.
Read full commentPosted in Enchanted insects
when all of these things
Posted on Sat, 14 Sep 2024
when all of these things about climate change do happen, and they will, very soon (in the next 20 or thirty years, as they've already begun) it will be too late. Ironically, your arguement is made online to a writers' forum.
Read full commentPosted in Where Are We Now? Ted Kaczynski and Technological Society
ah, the darkness, but ah, the
Posted on Tue, 17 Sep 2024
ah, the darkness, but ah, the light.
Read full commentPosted in M'Appari
I too find it compelling and
Posted on Tue, 17 Sep 2024
I too find it compelling and hope to read more. Obviously, when something like that happens you were well understaffed. When nothing like that happens, you're overstaffed. So the story goes.
Read full commentPosted in Taking Care 6 (iii)
you can see poetry in life.
Posted on Mon, 16 Sep 2024
you can see poetry in life. That's a gift.
Read full commentPosted in Seeing
great post Harry. I'd
Posted on Fri, 13 Sep 2024
great post Harry. I'd recommend your medical students also read Fern Brady (2023) Strong Female Character. This really brings these issues alive and what it means to be human with a condition others feel free to misinterpret, especially if you...
Read full commentPosted in What is Autism? A brief guide...
oh, she should meet some of
Posted on Fri, 13 Sep 2024
oh, she should meet some of the other freaks! casual, but deadly. There's something insidious about AI communicating wirelessly. I think we need Spock's input. (Not the baby guy).
Read full commentPosted in Parcel for You.. - Part 34
we are the children who read
Posted on Fri, 13 Sep 2024
we are the children who read and are read to. beautiful in it's way. a golden past.
Read full commentPosted in Bedtime Stories
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