Lille Dante

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The Ruin Of Many A Poor Boy

By Lille Dante on Sun, 11 Oct 2026

... and god... I know... I'm one...

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The Faithful

By Lille Dante on Fri, 09 Oct 2026

The host resumed her script. “Before you leave, please reveal if you are a Faithful... or a Traitor.”

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The Green By-Election

By Lille Dante on Fri, 09 Oct 2026

He’d been knocking on doors for three hours. Rain fell, on and off. A cold wind chilled the back of his neck. His leaflets became damp and started curling at the edges.

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"This Isn't England"

By Lille Dante on Fri, 02 Oct 2026

John took the mug down from the cupboard without thinking. White porcelain with a chipped rim, its printed red cross faded from years of washing up...

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It must have been convincing.

Posted on Sun, 04 Feb 2018

It must have been convincing.

I was distracted by a couple of members of the audience looking at their phones during my performance.

Am I being that boring or self indulgent? I wondered.

Turned out they were Googling me and...

Posted in 'The Wages of Sin', Unplugged

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Mythical England?

Posted on Fri, 02 Oct 2026

It's interesting how readers interpret a piece of fiction.

John is not meant to be a sympathetic character.

During the course of the story, he encounters what appear to be 5 mythical presences that have been imported from other...

Posted in "This Isn't England"

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Yes, 'Britishness' is a fluid

Posted on Fri, 11 Sep 2026

Yes, 'Britishness' is a fluid and artificial concept. It's basically a collective name the Romans gave to the disparate Celtic tribes when all their fighting age men came here in their small boats.

The Beaker People were here first. They...

Posted in The First and Last Patriots

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Jukeboxes in pubs started to

Posted on Mon, 04 May 2026

Jukeboxes in pubs started to appear in the 1950s, but only in establishments that wanted a 'modern' image and to attract a younger clientele. (In a later decade, the Greyhound even had a disco that I used to frequent.) However, during this period...

Posted in "Answer Me"

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Broke my own rule!

Posted on Sat, 02 May 2026

Broke my own rule!

Deleted all but the first quote which surely qualifies as fair use.

(Don't confuse it with the song made famous by Hendrix, it's not the same one.)

Posted in "Hey Joe!"

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The nurse has checked with

Posted on Sat, 28 Mar 2026

The nurse has checked with her metal comb...

Posted in "I Believe"

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This is the first part of a

Posted on Fri, 13 Mar 2026

This is the first part of a long-term series I've been planning for years. Each story will be a self contained vignette. With minor exceptions, there will be no repeating characters or narrative through-line. It is a combination of memory,...

Posted in "Here In My Heart"

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'Ten years since Live Aid'

Posted on Tue, 10 Mar 2026

'Ten years since Live Aid'

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The timeline is a bit fluid

Posted on Tue, 03 Mar 2026

The timeline is a bit fluid but that's not a bad guesstimate. Part 1 was post-glam pub rock about 1975, part 2 obviously 1976-7. This part alludes to Jon Foxx's Ultravox and Gary Numan's Tubeway Army, so post punk and pre new wave. Danny seems to...

Posted in More Roche Five Than Pain

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This was actually supposed to

Posted on Wed, 25 Feb 2026

This was actually supposed to have been a violent political thriller but Google took exception to my parameters when I was researching how an ordinary person would obtain a weapon and plan an assassination. (I'm probably flagged on a government...