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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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Pieman
I’d squeezed through the gap in the iron railings, I’d heard the shouts, and then saw there was a game on the gravel park. I no longer played, was...
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A Pile Up of Boys
The secretaries behind the sliding-glass panels of their office space watched us with sidelong glances as they went about their business. I guessed...
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How Harper Lee helped me to gain admission to Harvard's Creative Writing MFA
‘The only time I ever came close to Jesus was the calm after her orgasm.’ This was the first line in my portfolio of stories. During lockdown, I...
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Kisngalria 4
Wooden sawhorses blocked the road at the end of the lot. Trams could no longer climb the hill because of ice and snow. Traffic diverted to the...
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sweet as honey, jenny.
Posted on Tue, 04 Apr 2023
sweet as honey, jenny.
Read full commentPosted in Relaxed Day In Summer
I can't resist stories of the
Posted on Mon, 03 Apr 2023
I can't resist stories of the supernatural. I guess this has the semblance of truth. Whether dreams can be true is something only Freud would debate. But very, very interesting.
Read full commentPosted in A Requiem for One Man’s Life (Edited and Updated 2023)
She sounds lke the 1%. But
Posted on Sun, 02 Apr 2023
She sounds lke the 1%. But much older than school years. I'm not so sure Dublin students need to worry about paying for health care. We don't bankrupt ourselves in that way yet- although we are moving in that direction.
Read full commentPosted in the premature college student
old age and death, but not
Posted on Wed, 29 Mar 2023
old age and death, but not only.
Read full commentPosted in Dreaming
nicely done.
Posted on Sat, 01 Apr 2023
nicely done.
Read full commentPosted in Charlotte
ah, the mystery of bins and
Posted on Fri, 31 Mar 2023
ah, the mystery of bins and their sins.
Read full commentPosted in I Love Bin Day.
yeh, Jolono, Di. He wrote at
Posted on Tue, 28 Mar 2023
yeh, Jolono, Di. He wrote at least one story on it Better than mine.
I wonder i f the Fall is as good as U2? probably not unless Bono is the lead singer of The Fall too.
Read full commentPosted in Goatie
Top of the list and yet...
Posted on Tue, 28 Mar 2023
Top of the list and yet...
Read full commentPosted in Marcus
Rocks and resonates with
Posted on Tue, 28 Mar 2023
Rocks and resonates with autheticity.
Read full commentPosted in Brean Down
A baptism of sorts.
Posted on Thu, 23 Mar 2023
A baptism of sorts.
Read full commentPosted in Blue Lagoon
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