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Tom Emery
Now retired from a career in teaching, I live in Scarborough, where I spend my days reading, writing, travelling and playing the piano, but not necesserily in that order.
My stories
Frankenplot: Aeolian
A small boy, a bungalow and an alien encounter...
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Autumn Release
Autumn is a time of release...
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The Lucky Jumper
A child's faith in his lucky jumper was absolute..
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The Results
Following the path of life...
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The Ballad of Reggie's Bonce
I've recently reread a book of Spike Milligan's poetry that I bought in the sixties, so I couldn't resist having a go..
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Hello Di. I'm pleased you
Posted on Tue, 22 Sep 2026
Hello Di. I'm pleased you enjoyed the story as it did actually happen. I would have been about seven I think ( it's a long, long time ago) and I remember being scared by it, mostly I think, because I had never encountered such thing before and...
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Many thanks, SoulFire, I'm
Posted on Tue, 22 Sep 2026
Many thanks, SoulFire, I'm pleased you enjoyed it. I read some Ray Bradbury some years ago, but Farenheit 451 is the only one I can recall. I'll look that one out and add it to my bedside collection.
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Thank you marandina. The
Posted on Tue, 22 Sep 2026
Thank you marandina. The story was based on an actual boyhood experience and garnished a little.
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You dare, and you can add
Posted on Mon, 14 Sep 2026
You dare, and you can add obscenely expensive, overcrowded and characterless.
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This writing lark is a lonely
Posted on Tue, 08 Sep 2026
This writing lark is a lonely job and the more companions we meet along the way, the better.
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Some great imagery in this
Posted on Tue, 08 Sep 2026
Some great imagery in this piece Ewan, and I love the absurdity. One suggestion I would make is that the weirdness is its strength, and there are places where your prose sometimes explains the weirdness rather than just letting it be weird...if...
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Oh dear. I thought Lidl was a
Posted on Fri, 04 Sep 2026
Oh dear. I thought Lidl was a specialist clinic. No wonder they looked puzzled.
Read full commentPosted in Tobruk, Or Not Tobruk?
Thanks Turlough, I offered it
Posted on Tue, 01 Sep 2026
Thanks Turlough, I offered it to their travel editor, but he turned it down. He said commissioning weekly reports on our trip around the Greek islands might lay them open to being sued by me if the kids ever discovered our whereabouts. He had a...
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Wonderfully exotic Turlough,
Posted on Fri, 28 Aug 2026
Wonderfully exotic Turlough, and I particularly liked your reference to Brassens' L'Orage. We had our long awaited thunderstorm here yesterday, but unfortunately I wasn't sheltering from it in close confines with a sensuous lady, as George was...
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Thank you Frances, I hope all
Posted on Wed, 26 Aug 2026
Thank you Frances, I hope all is well with you down at the other end of the world. I've just enjoyed your poem Tanka, which I've now discovered is a Japanese poetry form of saying much in few words, as good poetry should. You have inspired me to...
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