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Land of Hope and Fury

By Ewan on Tue, 11 Nov 2025

Rant Photo is faked, from several different images. It is not a real place.

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Put The Sword Down

By Ewan on Wed, 05 Nov 2025

I "put the sword down" over 20 years ago, now. 23 years lucky service - nearest I got to the field of battle was flying overhead at 12,000 metres listening out for SAM batteries comms. Others are not so lucky. This is for them. We shall remember them, too.

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An Eye for an Eye (will leave us all blind).

By Ewan on Fri, 03 Oct 2025

Well, it will. Image made by me using licensed elements at canva.com

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Virtual Reality

By Ewan on Fri, 26 Sep 2025

Across the network; bitcoins pay for virtual love, boys sit mute in dark rooms hoods up inside, as if in hiding - from themselves. Outside at bus-...

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As regards

Posted on Mon, 28 Jul 2025

finding a home for this, submission-wise, I wish you luck. It's quirkily funny, well written, and possibly perfect for Punch, circa 1975 (Not a bad thing at all).

7 years ago, in 2018, The Wodehouse prize for Comic Novel of the Year...

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I forgot to point out that

Posted on Sat, 14 Jun 2025

one of the reasons this resonated so much with me is that something similar happened to me only a month ago :

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This is our Pick of the Day, 22nd January 2025

Posted on Wed, 22 Jan 2025

If ever I need to raise a smile, I know that reading about Ned's Bar will do it for me. Do please share this to your socials so that others can appreciate one of ABC's most individual and idiosyncratic humo(u)rists, Hudson Moon.

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Congratulations, this is our Pick of the Day, 18th November 2024

Posted on Mon, 18 Nov 2024

A very serious subject dealt with in an intelligent yet wryly humorous way.
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This is our Pick of the Day 5th September 2024

Posted on Tue, 03 Sep 2024

This first part of a ghostly tale with a sci-fi twist is our Pick of the Day.
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Posted on Sun, 25 Aug 2024

This continues to fascinate. Off-beat, original and anything but ordinary, that's why it's today's Pick of the Day. Please share on your preferred social media, all.

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Congratulations! This is our Pick of the Day 20th February 2024

Posted on Tue, 20 Feb 2024

Taut, terse and intriguing, this is our pick of the day. Please share on whatever social media you use, fellow ABC-ers

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Congratulations! This is our Pick of the Day Friday 22 Dec 2023

Posted on Thu, 21 Dec 2023

Written like an 8-and-a-half-year-old Joyce - that's James Joyce, not Joyce Grenfell... Although... No seriously, folks, this captures the breathless jumble of thoughts, half-understood things, fears and hopes of almost any kid of that age....

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Those that aren't too far

Posted on Tue, 24 Oct 2023

on the other side of dementia's curtain can be good company. My dad just shrank away to nothing at all, really. After my dad died, it hit my mum with full force - couldn't tell the time, didn't know what day it was, hiding things. None of which...

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Congratulations! This is today's Pick of the Day 23rd Aug 2023

Posted on Tue, 22 Aug 2023

Congratulations. Evokes a time and a place with great skill and that's why it's our pick of the day.

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