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6 collections on the site.
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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 (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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1. A Sunday Kind of Loving...
I'm rehashing something that I first started posting on ABC when I joined 20 years ago. I had no idea what to do with it then, but have a better idea...
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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.
Read full commentPosted in I’ve Got a Gal in Tiramisu
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...
Read full commentPosted in While I Wasn't Listening
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?
Read full commentPosted in Fleeting Moments Of My Younger Self In A Letter
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)
Just read this... since
Posted on Sun, 18 Jan 2026
Just read this... since making my own comment. Yes, it's a fine, though harrowing book. And film. Claire Keegan is a fine writer. Her short story collection 'Walk The Blue Fields' is one I'd recommend. Also, another fine Irish writer (though not...
Read full commentPosted in Letter to Ann Lovett (1968 - 1984)
A fine poem, Jane, and a very
Posted on Sun, 18 Jan 2026
A fine poem, Jane, and a very strong and fitting testament. I can't add more to what's been said already.
Read full commentPosted in Letter to Ann Lovett (1968 - 1984)
Brilliant!
Posted on Sun, 21 Dec 2025
Brilliant!
Read full commentPosted in Letter from Frankincense & Myrrh, Solicitors
Thanks for your encouragement
Posted on Mon, 23 Jun 2025
Thanks for your encouragement, Claudine. I should have stuck with the original idea. This has taken it in a direction that creates difficulties I don't want, and takes it away from what I was trying to achieve with it.
That's writing,...
Read full commentPosted in Dead Man: 6 (ii)
Agreed. These
Posted on Sun, 22 Jun 2025
Agreed. These categorisations all become meaningless over time. And it starts with the language, of course. The process of dehumanisation. 'Migrant', 'druggie', 'leftie', etc. It becomes easier to hate or dismiss someone if they've got a...
Read full commentPosted in Fifty-One Empty Places at the Dinner Table
You've put into words
Posted on Sun, 22 Jun 2025
You've put into words something it's difficult to find words for. I echo Kilb50's sentiments. I feel the same. When we're confronted with these daily reports and images, all it does is increase the anger, frustration, sense of helplessness. All...
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