The Other Terrence Oblong

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I have 187 stories published in 3 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 110302 times and 177 of my stories have been cherry picked.
7 of my 279 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 7 votes

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The Sooty Problem

By The Other Terrence Oblong on Sun, 09 Dec 2018

I was woken early by a hammering on my back door. I quickly dressed and rushed downstairs, where I found Alun with a yellow glove puppet on his left...
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The Pigeon problem

By The Other Terrence Oblong on Sun, 11 Nov 2018

I was woken early one morning by a hammering on my back door. I quickly dressed and rushed downstairs, to find Alun holding a pigeon. "It's a pigeon...
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The Message in a Bottle Problem

By The Other Terrence Oblong on Sun, 04 Nov 2018

I was woken early one morning by a hammering on my back door. I quickly dressed and rushed downstairs, where I found Alun holding a bottle. "It's a...
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The King Problem

By The Other Terrence Oblong on Sun, 14 Oct 2018

I was woken early one morning by a hammering on my back door. I quickly dressed and rushed downstairs, where I found Alun in an agitated state. "It's...
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The Wisdom Problem

By The Other Terrence Oblong on Sat, 29 Sep 2018

I woke early one morning to make Wise Alun his breakfast tea. I quickly dressed and rushed over to his house, where I began preparations for the tea...
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7 of my comments have received 7 Great Feedback votes

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Thanks for sharing Harry. I'm

Posted on Sat, 29 Sep 2018

Thanks for sharing Harry. I'm aspie myself, though will never take a test. I was placed in all the bottom classes at school even though I was mensa level IQ and went on to get straight As at A Level at evening classes - I was forever correcting...

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Thankjs insert. I never know

Posted on Wed, 19 Jul 2017

Thankjs insert. I never know how to end, I just ...

 

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Bumble bees is on the list of

Posted on Sat, 09 Apr 2016

Bumble bees is on the list of future stories. I've been meaning to read a book on it first, hence the delay. Overseas ownership of industry is covered by the Factory Problem which currently only exists in my notebook, might be time to dig that...

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Thanks insert

Posted on Sat, 05 Mar 2016

Thanks insert

 

At least you didn't call it 'crazy'

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Posted in The Marriage problem

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I like the storytelling style

Posted on Tue, 01 Mar 2016

I like the storytelling style, it reminded me of Anne Tyler, you lose yourself in the detail of the characters lives and are suddenly buldozed by the next big reveal. Glad to hear this is part of a bigger thang.

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Cardigans - that's a bit

Posted on Fri, 23 Oct 2015

Cardigans - that's a bit trendy for a braintree boy, otherwise a fine tale

 

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What I love about this piece

Posted on Sat, 18 Apr 2015

What I love about this piece is the way the venality and corruption of the characters echoes the way in which you've blatantly stolen the entire '3 meals' plot from an episode of the Vicar of Dibley.

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