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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
3. An Expedition To The Pole (iii)
A couple more pints, a wee dram and a bit of a tab later, Denise locked us all out for the night. Sherlock stood in the lee of the door and fashioned...
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3. An Expedition To The Pole (ii)
"I'll tell you a story," he said. "About a time when I had my eyes opened. Did I ever mention to you that I really was a detective once?" I was...
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3. An Expedition To The Pole (i)
An evening at The North Pole was called for. For me, The Pole is the best pub around. Comfortably shabby, like your grandad's old Ford Escort, and...
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Waiting for Godot 2026
An absurdist tragi-comedy for the modern age, in two acts. (image: mine) ACT ONE A country road. A tree. Evening. Estragon, sitting on a low mound,...
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2. Small Town Sunday Walking Blues...
Down three flights, past doors through which I could hear TVs, music, shouting - the predictable backing track of domestic life. It seemed like all...
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Ah, youth. Where does it go?
Posted on Thu, 05 Feb 2026
Ah, youth. Where does it go?
I'm still a hippy now, in my own way
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Another wonderful story!
Posted on Sat, 06 Oct 2018
Another wonderful story!
I wrote a book about those final few months I spent with mum - 'Gift' on here. I've never been remotely superstitious or religious. But I have come to believe in things like parallel universes and serendipity. I...
Read full commentPosted in How writing (and a cat called Daisy) may have saved my life...
When my mum was learning
Posted on Sun, 01 Feb 2026
When my mum was learning computing, I encouraged her to write down her childhood memories. She did it for a while, but then got disillusioned. 'They don't go anywhere. They're just memories.' Bless her, she thought she had to give them a plot to...
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Wonderful. I love the mix of
Posted on Sun, 01 Feb 2026
Wonderful. I love the mix of the personal, local, global, universal and surreal in these. Makes me think of Alan Bennett's diaries. Wonder what the Trumpians will come up with next in their mangling of truth and language.
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Fabulous. So many great lines
Posted on Sun, 01 Feb 2026
Fabulous. So many great lines and images.
'Outside, rain splices the city's circuitry.'
'the hum of nothing happening,'
What lives where signals stop... something that so often gets lost now, or dies - like that silence in...
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I've not seen any Pinter for
Posted on Fri, 30 Jan 2026
I've not seen any Pinter for years - but yes, The Caretaker was/is a favourite. The Birthday Party, too - which I find even more disturbing and unsettling. Kafkaesque. I always liked The Dumb Waiter, though - the first of his I ever read, and I...
Read full commentPosted in The Dumb Waiter 2026
I fully get that dilemma -
Posted on Fri, 30 Jan 2026
I fully get that dilemma - and it's one shared by millions. I know people of the grandparent generation who have them and hate them, but say they have little choice because without them they couldn't keep up with their own children and...
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I dunno, Kat. Craziest thing
Posted on Fri, 30 Jan 2026
I dunno, Kat. I think that horse has long bolted. Craziest thing I ever saw in a gym was a guy using a rowing machine - pulling the oars with one hand while he looked at his phone with the other. Showing off, of course. I wouldn't like to think...
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I often think about doing the
Posted on Fri, 23 Jan 2026
I often think about doing the same, Jenny - finding my younger self, putting my arm around him, telling him it'll all be alright in the end. It might just take some time, that's all. Doesn't seem that long ago, does it. Does it?
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I don't mind - I have so
Posted on Thu, 22 Jan 2026
I don't mind - I have so many pseudonyms online! My old Facebook name was Will...
Read full commentPosted in 4. Away with Words (ii)
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