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Ugly Puggly 69
I drove home. Molly, in the passenger seat beside me, rocked backwards and forwards clutching her stomach and urging me to hurry. But the traffic...
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Ugly Puggly 68
We drove back along the way we came. The nearest petrol station was just off Crow Road. The engine chugged and wheezed before it cut out. I flicked...
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Ugly Puggly 67
Molly had a hand draped over my shoulder as we sat in the back of the Bongo. Her musty perfume stirred me up. She dressed like we were going for a...
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Ugly Puggly 66
I stumbled past ranks of wilting bracken and tepid water turning green with algae. Tenement buildings in straight lines and a clutter of housing...
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Ugly Puggly 65
I’d been sleeping in the Bongo. It was a better home than some of the guys I drunk with during the day had down by the canal. We were off grid, near...
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tucked indeed. My ambitions
Posted on Tue, 24 Dec 2024
tucked indeed. My ambitions once stretched to getting on a Christmas card too.
Read full commentPosted in And what did the robin do then...?
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
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