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Ugly Puggly 79
I used my good (non-wanking hand) to angle the telly. But I wasn’t sure how it worked. Whatever channel I flicked it onto seemed to drone extended...
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Ugly Puggly 78
Ugly Puggly told me a drunk was like a Russian novelist. Always close to tears. I rambled on. ‘I don’t believe in God or that kinda stuff,’ I told...
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Ugly Puggly 77
When they left for Drymen, I went to the shop and bought a bottle of Vladistock. I cracked it open on the main road and took a quick slug. It burned...
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Ugly Puggly 76
Molly made toast, but she’d only brown bread which was like cheating at breakfast, and eating low-calorie cardboard because it was good for you...
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Ugly Puggly 75
Some dirty bastard had been sick in the close, on the first steps to the half-landing. It stuck to the wall and the pitted surface of the stair. A...
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belief is important. innocene
Posted on Tue, 24 Dec 2024
belief is important. innocene more so. bloody santa...I know...I know...I know.
Read full commentPosted in Santa Pause
that's all good news Jenny.
Posted on Sun, 22 Dec 2024
that's all good news Jenny. Have a lovely-- and mobile--Christmas.
Read full commentPosted in Bright Side Of Life
Women, I guess, are the
Posted on Sat, 21 Dec 2024
Women, I guess, are the bearers of light and chroniclers of darkness.
Read full commentPosted in The Border Ballads
a body shouldn't scare
Posted on Fri, 20 Dec 2024
a body shouldn't scare undertakers, but hey, resurrection isn't good for business, or is it?
Read full commentPosted in It's My Party (Dead Reckoning series - Part 40)
facial recognition, genetic
Posted on Fri, 20 Dec 2024
facial recognition, genetic sampling. Sounds like not too far from home.
Read full commentPosted in The Last Night Chapter 21 A Past Recaptured
I'd rather take my chances
Posted on Wed, 18 Dec 2024
I'd rather take my chances with science and a testing of the null-hypothesis. That means researchers try and prove something doesn't work. When they conclude that something does work, they ask further questions and begin anew. Try reading Carl...
Read full commentPosted in Why I'm a consistent and unabashed 'anti-vaxxer'
trains from Victorian times,
Posted on Wed, 18 Dec 2024
trains from Victorian times, Victorian lines criss-crossing the world. They still rule in some continents. The dinosaurs may return?
Read full commentPosted in They Seem To Be Alive (re-write)
settling in. Old
Posted on Tue, 17 Dec 2024
settling in. Old establishment and toilet paper. These are the things that made us great.
Read full commentPosted in The Last Night Chapter 19 Settling In
birds are amazing, living
Posted on Sun, 15 Dec 2024
birds are amazing, living poetry but much better.
Read full commentPosted in The Bower Flame Bird
Happy is relative unless we
Posted on Sun, 15 Dec 2024
Happy is relative unless we're children when it is absolute. Lots of love here.
Read full commentPosted in Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Christmas (ii)
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