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I have 1121 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 1710368 times and 1127 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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Stevie Tait

Morrisey sang The Last of the Famous International Playboys on the radio and I quickly turned it off. Some windows were blacked out with yellowing...
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Dav Prentice.

I shouldn’t have laughed when I heard Dav Prentice was dead. We were talking about football in the Horse and Barge, but then Brendan took off on a...
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June Collins

Tam Collin’s mum’s funeral was during lockdown. Tam was around the same age as me, so I guess that put her in her eighties. I knew Tam’s son too, Tam...
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george devine

George Devine died before lockdown. He wouldn’t have known what it meant, or recognised it as a historical event of before and—I hadn’t seen him in...
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Dade Simpson

David (Dade) Simpson had been one of my best mates at school. But he hadn’t started that way. He’d challenged me to fight on our first days at the...

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1376 of my comments have received 1410 Great Feedback votes

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if the surgeons are having a

Posted on Sun, 21 Aug 2022

if the surgeons are having a look and able to snip off polyps (as they routinely do, as you described) that wouldn't and shouldn't be a problem. The dilemma as I read it is Schrodinnger's cat.  

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Posted in Internal Workings

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sadly true. 

Posted on Sun, 21 Aug 2022

sadly true. 

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Posted in The war

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if you don't ask you don't

Posted on Sat, 20 Aug 2022

if you don't ask you don't get. I won't be tryng that at home. 

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Posted in Thirteen Letters. Chapter Two.

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I think HItler and Stalin

Posted on Fri, 19 Aug 2022

I think HItler and Stalin were monsters. Hundreds of millions died. Putin to is a monster. But of lesser magnitured unless he starts another war. Trump is a moster too. As is Boris Johnson. It's all a matter of magnitude. 

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Posted in Knights Of the Keyboard To the Defence of Ukraine (Part 2) by Alfred N.Muggins

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She did the right thing. The

Posted on Wed, 17 Aug 2022

She did the right thing. The moron's moron's grip on the Repbulican party boggles belief She is part of the Republican Party but not part of the cult of Donald. Her dad, as Vice President, with his links to Lee Raymond, CEO of ExxonMobil helped...

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Posted in Profile in Courage

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yes, I've been readng a bit

Posted on Thu, 18 Aug 2022

yes, I've been readng a bit about this and the centre cannot hold. This is one vision. Mine tends towards the dystopian. 

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Posted in THE TRIALS OF AN ANGEL (part1)

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I like the sound of woodruff.

Posted on Wed, 17 Aug 2022

I like the sound of woodruff. I like the sound of this. I wonder if your mum and grandma wondered too. I guess like you. 

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Posted in Afternoon Delight

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the weather forecast was a

Posted on Wed, 10 Aug 2022

the weather forecast was a book, but I prefer you poem. 

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Posted in The Witch’s Daughter

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the day has flown indeed.

Posted on Sun, 14 Aug 2022

the day has flown indeed. Life does that. Poetry slow us down a tick. 

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Posted in The Gift

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Keep smiling. Keep writing.

Posted on Mon, 15 Aug 2022

Keep smiling. Keep writing. Jelly babies always helps.

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Posted in Chemo 5

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