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Kevin Marman
Retired care worker, writer, memester, autist, dissenter.
I like people who not only think outside the box, but reshape the box into something else!
I've been writing since I was 10. It's my sanctuary - though the structure often needs maintenance. In 2015, at the grand age of 56, I was finally diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Condition (Asperger's). I live alone with my cat, Daisy, my bicycle and lots of books.
My stories
Tom All Alone 18 (ii)
They sat down to dinner that night in Auntie Pat and Uncle George's kitchen. It was brighter than their kitchen at home. They had the long tube...
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Tom All Alone 18 (i)
The peace at home never lasted long, though. Quite often now, it seemed, Tom would wake up to hear something going on upstairs - loud voices, crying...
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Blue
times we had, the three of us - fifty summers gone a boy his dogs the day unspooling across the hills and no one sweet hiatus we three the sky the...
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Tom All Alone 17 (ii)
Tom returned to school on the Monday, and Miss Newman was back again. But things weren't the same. As soon as he arrived in the playground he noticed...
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Hilda Doyle's Boil
A silly piece of nonsense, inspired by Hilaire Belloc. Not for the faint-hearted or easily-offended! (my image) Hilda Doyle had a boil growing in her...
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I well remember when I was
Posted on Tue, 26 May 2026
I well remember when I was finally found out. Actually, the teacher was outraged and it caused more of a fuss than depicted. And the ten shilling note! That happened in the back road. We'd just found it when this chap came along and asked us. A...
Read full commentPosted in Tom All Alone 16 (ii)
Thanks, Tom. I don't judge.
Posted on Wed, 25 Feb 2026
Thanks, Tom. I sincerely hope I don't judge, and can't really see any element of judgment here. Perhaps I'm overlooking something. If Harry's judgment (a fictional narrator) is that he couldn't make anything of the story ideas, then that just...
Read full commentPosted in 5. Secondhand Prose
I'm not sure it's a pastiche.
Posted on Thu, 19 Feb 2026
I'm not sure it's a pastiche. In spite of resonances, I think it's highly original. Congratulations. Well-deserved.
Read full commentPosted in Courtesy Calls: The Fire Lane (1)
Duly noted, Claudine. Sorry.
Posted on Sun, 01 Feb 2026
Duly noted, Claudine. Sorry. Comments edited.
Read full commentPosted in I’ve Got a Gal in Tiramisu
With you on that, Turlough.
Posted on Mon, 02 Jun 2025
With you on that, Turlough. It was behind my decision not to have children, in the end. With AI being predicted to wipe out many white-collar jobs soon, too, children today face a future more uncertain than at any time in our lifetimes. We...
Read full commentPosted in Population decline
I genuinely think her heart's
Posted on Thu, 26 Sep 2024
I genuinely think her heart's in the right place. She uses her wealth to good social ends. I find her music and her presence quite bland, uninspiring and forgettable - Joni Mitchell or Patti Smith she ain't - but am glad if she can make some...
Read full commentPosted in On the Wind
“No, it’s a tediously nasal
Posted on Sat, 14 Sep 2024
“No, it’s a tediously nasal-sounding middle-aged white man in a cape.”
Brilliant. I retire next year on only the state pension. And as I've worked for fifty years, I'll get the full state pension. Which'll make me £12 a month above...
Read full commentPosted in Sir Kier Starmer Superhero – Sir Kier and the energy crisis
I heard a joke recently:
Posted on Sun, 08 Sep 2024
I heard a joke recently:
'How do you know if someone's autistic?'
'They'll tell you.'
Hm.
One of the biggest laughs I had was at a comedy night where one of the comedians was disabled. He used his metal crutches to...
Read full commentPosted in A hundred moments in autism - Autistic Comedy Night
And it's a very common
Posted on Mon, 04 Mar 2019
And it's a very common experience with high-functioning autistics - as I read and hear all the time from others. Even in my last job, with an autism charity, the lack of proper understanding was profound. I left in the end because of a bullying...
Read full commentPosted in The Love of the Loveless (Chapter 6) (8)
I understand the info
Posted on Tue, 06 Nov 2018
I understand the info overload! It's all a lot to take in, and it takes time to process. I'm 3 years past diagnosis now, and I'm still running the numbers. To use the old cliche, it's a rollercoaster. So many positives... but the other side...
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