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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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Ugly Puggly 64
We walked over to Molly’s. It had been warm that day and I wanted to stretch my legs. Ugly Puggly gave us a couple of slices of blue-moulded bread to...
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Ugly Puggly 63
‘It’s the police,’ Ugly Puggly whispered and giggled. We were soon rolling about the floor laughing as if we were hiding from the Provy cheque man...
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Ugly Puggly 62
My phone rang. Dave seemed almost as surprised as me. He thought my phone so ancient naval flags would operate it. I took my Noika into the lobby to...
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aye, it's of the I don't
Posted on Fri, 17 Jan 2025
aye, it's of the I don't believe in ghosts but I'm still scared of them variety. seeing things.
Read full commentPosted in The Golden Fleece (Ghost Walk) Part Two of Two
I've been out looking for
Posted on Thu, 16 Jan 2025
I've been out looking for Spencer. Alas no sucess. But I did find a charging cable. Maybe he has been here.
robots, cybors, chatgbt and pattern-recognition software such as Fakebook tend to give advice. Shampoo bottles don't. [edit your...
Read full commentPosted in Parcel for You - Part 48
sorry about your sorrow, if
Posted on Sat, 11 Jan 2025
sorry about your sorrow, if that makes sense?
Read full commentPosted in "Silence"
A sad ending.
Posted on Wed, 08 Jan 2025
A sad ending.
Read full commentPosted in "Before They Call, I Will Answer, While They Are Still Speaking, I Will Hear." Part Five.
There's a few statues of me
Posted on Tue, 07 Jan 2025
There's a few statues of me lying around somewhere. They've came to resemble very large rocks, but I don't mind. A statute of Jimmy Johnson outside Parkhead is awful. I guess what you're saying is about quality. We're agreed on that. Statutes of...
Read full commentPosted in A statue of you
It is an unholy land full of
Posted on Sun, 05 Jan 2025
It is an unholy land full of genocidial hate. No surprise the king of Persia would be regarded as a Palestinian refugee and jailed.
Read full commentPosted in Sojourn In Palestine (Welcome To Palestine!) by Alfred N.Muggins : Part 2
'I'd like to teach the world
Posted on Sun, 05 Jan 2025
'I'd like to teach the world to sing'. That was an old Coke advert and the song went to number 1 (when number 1 was a big thing). Companies pay hundreds of thousands. No surprises.
Read full commentPosted in Childhood.
lots of people hate pigeons.
Posted on Sun, 05 Jan 2025
lots of people hate pigeons. call them flying rats. But I'm with you on that one. A bit of compassion.
Read full commentPosted in Feed The Birds, Tuppence A Bag.
As always, I really like this
Posted on Sat, 04 Jan 2025
As always, I really like this re-telling. It stands out.
Read full commentPosted in Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Photographs
robots and software are
Posted on Tue, 31 Dec 2024
robots and software are pattern-recognition prisims. No surprise they see the rise of the brown boots as a threat. Malfunctions are coming.
Read full commentPosted in Parcel for You - Part 45
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