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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 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, 'Sacred Shirts', which was published in 2024.

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

Cherry

Tom All Alone (6) (i)

Then there were days when different things happened. Days when dad would take him out on the lorry when he did forage deliveries around the city and...
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Cherry

Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Settling Up (ii)

A couple of days later, he came over again. He'd brought his copy of mum's key, so I now had them all. Four door keys in total, plus two for the back...
Cherry

Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Settling Up (i)

Following the final day with the clearance at the bungalow, it's time to pay some bills. (continued from 'Final Day') The next day, I went into Walsh...
Cherry

Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Final Day

The final day of clearance at my mother's bungalow, following her death. Joanne, my niece, comes to help me as my brother has gone on holiday. Lottie...
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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Clearing the loft

In continuing with the final draft of 'Gift', I've reached the point where I'm clearing out my mother's bungalow following her death. I'd been...
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124 of my comments have received 134 Great Feedback votes

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Okay... here's the SoundCloud

Posted on Fri, 20 Sep 2024

Okay... here's the SoundCloud file.  Best I can do, I'm afraid.  It lacks the dynamic of a stage performance.

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Posted in Autistic Man!

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Yes, absolutely.  That stigma

Posted on Sun, 15 Sep 2024

Yes, absolutely.  That stigma is, thankfully, being broken down.  But it's still there.

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Posted in Mr Pettigrew

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Thank you, Jenny.  I'm

Posted on Sat, 14 Sep 2024

Thank you, Jenny.  I'm grateful for this comment - and I agree so much with what you say.  I was a child of the '60s.  They were tough times.  But I still can't help but look back on my life and think I've been lucky, and lived it without this '...

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Posted in Where Are We Now? Ted Kaczynski and Technological Society

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Absolutely.  And they almost

Posted on Sat, 14 Sep 2024

Absolutely.  And they almost resolutely ignore that.  Corporations like Amazon and Google, too, who use our buildings and infrastructure and get away with paying no or little tax.  It defeats me how it's allowed to happen.  I guess it comes down...

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Posted in Sir Kier Starmer Superhero – Sir Kier and the energy crisis

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I can hear Tom in every word

Posted on Sun, 15 Sep 2024

I can hear Tom in every word - in that 'The Piano Has Been Drinking' voice!

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Posted in Noir-sery Rhyme

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He's not kidding me - just as

Posted on Sat, 14 Sep 2024

He's not kidding me - just as Blair didn't.  Labour is Labour in name only now.   As a lifelong socialist, my conscience is clear in not helping this wanker get elected.  Well said, Yutka. 

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Posted in Who do you think you are kidding, Mr. Starmer?

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First class!

Posted on Fri, 13 Sep 2024

First class!

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Posted in The Big End

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The 'double empathy' problem

Posted on Fri, 13 Sep 2024

The 'double empathy' problem helps to explain it.  If you get two people together from entirely different cultures, with no sharing of language, belief system, cultural norms, etc... they'll have the same problem.  I've a theory that it's at the...

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Posted in What is Autism? A brief guide...

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Same here.  Chuckling all the

Posted on Fri, 13 Sep 2024

Same here.  Chuckling all the way.  Laughed out loud at

'You turn to the wife and kids. They are sitting in the car. The signs are bad but they still have hope.'

And 'The Majestic Hote.' Great!

Made me think of a Denzel...

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Posted in The Big End

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Thanks, Di.  I'll never

Posted on Thu, 12 Sep 2024

Thanks, Di.  I'll never forget that moment.  It didn't take long after this, incidentally, for Greg to become my 'right-hand man'.  I ended up being able to get him to do anything!  It was wonderful.

Thanks for the cherries, too, eds!

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Posted in Taking Care 5 (ii)

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