HarryC

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I have 53 stories published in one collection on the site.
My stories have been read 16398 times and 66 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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Kevin Marman

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.  Over the last twenty or so years, I've won some writing prizes (nothing major) for short fiction, poetry and playwriting.  In 2013, I published my first novel, 'In the Day'.  Looking at it now, I can see all sorts of things I would change - but I suppose that shows progress.  I also have a collection of short fiction, 'Still Life', available for Kindle.

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, and lots of books.

My stories

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Pot-Boilers...

By HarryC on Sun, 04 Nov 2018

About 12 years ago, when I first started on ABC, I was writing a comic blog about a failed writer living in a damp flat in a wind-swept seaside town on the Kent coast. With his neighbours, Sherlock and Yo, he whiled away his days - writing stories, taking low-paid jobs, drinking, smoking, dreaming... He went through a few incarnations as I tried to develop the thing into a novel - but it didn't work out. Alan Benefit, then Stan Seagrave... then finally Harry Chadwick. I dug out this old 'chapter' and thought I'd post it. It might resonate with some of you...
Humour
Story
Certificate PG
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Gift: A Son's Story (Signs)

By HarryC on Sat, 03 Nov 2018

The day following my mother's funeral was also the three-week anniversary of her passing - at 7.22pm on 26th April 2017. My brother and his wife had flown off on holiday that day, and I was continuing with the clearance of mum's bungalow. It was a time when reassurances were needed. And they came in strange ways...
Autobiography
Non-fiction
Certificate PG
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Gift: A Son's Story (Postcards from the edge)

By HarryC on Thu, 01 Nov 2018

I was my mother's full-time carer during her final illness - from 16th October 2016 until 26th April 2017: the day she passed away. During that final spring, we took some day trips out to some local places of interest: Sandwich, Deal, Sheppey. Mum always enjoyed those trips. I think she knew she'd be seeing these places for the last time. Then, one day, we took the final trip. A few days afterwards, she began her final decline.
Autobiography
Non-fiction
Certificate PG
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Gift: A Son's Story (short extract 4)

By HarryC on Wed, 31 Oct 2018

After my mother passed away, I needed all the support I could get - and it wasn't coming to me from family. Although I'm not religious, I keep an open mind on spiritual matters. On my birthday that year - 5 days before mum's funeral - I decided to see a medium who'd been recommended to me by a friend. It gave me a lot of the reassurance I needed - though much more was to come.
Autobiography
Non-fiction
Certificate PG
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Gift: A Son's Story (short extract 3)

By HarryC on Sun, 28 Oct 2018

Another short extract from my book about my time spent caring for my mother during her final illness. After being rushed into hospital with renal failure, she hadn't been expected to survive. Miraculously, though, she pulled through and began to get physically better. But the ward she was put on was dismal and her psychological health began to suffer. She was expected to stay in for ten days. Then it became two weeks. Then three. Each time I visited, they kept putting her discharge date back another few days - and with each delay, she was getting more and more depressed. Her sister, Phyllis, had come to stay at mum's bungalow to keep it occupied for her return.
Autobiography
Non-fiction
Certificate PG

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