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what comes after Christmas 3
The basement smelt damp and faintly of pee. A knot grew in Carl’s gut. He hurried with Naama in his arm. He was a wee man and she was no weight at...
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what comes after Christmas 2
Carl grew so weary sitting beside her bed his shoulders were mudflats. It seemed so long ago. He couldn’t remember how it came to this. The world...
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Pick Up
Almost home. Angel hurried up in the hill at Byron Street, pulling her coat tighter around her flowery Boots' blouse, the high winds catching in her...
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what comes after Christmas.
Carl sucked on his teeth but didn’t say anything when the camper van parked in their street. The neighbours would squabble about it soon enough...
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silent as need be
Rain battered down. A give-and-take. They walked side-by-side, silent as need be. They crossed Kilbowie Road, watching for traffic, listening for the...
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the poet in you, indeed,
Posted on Thu, 04 Dec 2025
the poet in you, indeed, Jenny.
Read full commentPosted in Happiness Of Anticipating Inspiration
to be out and about is poetry
Posted on Tue, 02 Dec 2025
to be out and about is poetry to bring home.
Read full commentPosted in "Winter Constitutional"
Radost to the water boards.
Posted on Thu, 27 Nov 2025
Radost to the water boards. Radost to the moron's moron, Farage and Le Pan all whose incomes have received a signficant boots from our Russian friends. Radocst to the Tory Scum Party. I was going to say something about snakes. I think you've...
Read full commentPosted in Nor Any Drop to Drink
I think the wee guy in flip
Posted on Fri, 28 Nov 2025
I think the wee guy in flip flops played for the Peru team that beat us 2-0 in the 1970 world cup. the stars there were in alignment with the pub. I don't want to diminish your great achievement, but we really should have beaten them.
Read full commentPosted in Inca Ice and Lupins
we used to call kids that
Posted on Wed, 26 Nov 2025
we used to call kids that were good at maths 'brainy' at school. There was always a kid called 'Brains' in telly programmes, such as the Double Deckers. I've never really bothered having a brain. It's too much work.
Read full commentPosted in AWOL
I'm ahead with nuclear wars
Posted on Tue, 25 Nov 2025
I'm ahead with nuclear wars (planned) and introverts, extraverts and perverts on the moron's moron, Trump scale, but I've never heard of otrovert?
I thought you'd just made it up. But it's true. I don't know how it applies to me as I...
Read full commentPosted in Water Water Everywhere
we'd two sinks when we moved
Posted on Thu, 20 Nov 2025
we'd two sinks when we moved into our council house, a gerry-built tin box, but gerry didn 't build it. the wee sink was for dishes and stuff. The bigger sink for the mangle. A pulley above our head for drying clothes when you couldn't put them...
Read full commentPosted in Dolly Blue Monday
a small word stress. It lies
Posted on Sun, 23 Nov 2025
a small word stress. It lies flat on the page. ‘swallowing the sun as a dwarf star’. Well, wonderful words.
Read full commentPosted in Curiosity is the Only Requirement
Hair today, gone tomorrow.
Posted on Fri, 21 Nov 2025
Hair today, gone tomorrow. Well, in my case that's true. Your memories hold true.
Read full commentPosted in Drama Of Pheromones
I guess in the end I thought
Posted on Mon, 17 Nov 2025
I guess in the end I thought she'd be saved. No matter. All her good deeds. She'll get to heaven.
Read full commentPosted in The Day She Chose to Be Good
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