Terrence Oblong

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I have 894 stories published in 48 collections on the site.
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My stories

Eric Braithwaite’s Trousers

“Eric’s given his trousers a name,” someone joked the first time the name tag was spotted stitched into his trousers, by a mother clearly concerned...

Paul Stott’s bed companion

We were passing through the countryside checking that the villages we passed through were safe. This can be dangerous work, with snippers and lone...

The day Andy Jenkins shot himself

We’d been sent across the desert, an urgent mission to fetch an essential package from a camp a hundred miles away. The mission turned out to be a...

The Day Rick Hughes got religion

Rick Hughes was part of a unit of four troops sent to scout the remnants of a village that had just been captured. There wasn’t much of the village...

The poem

There is laughter to be had in the trenches, dark humour, perhaps, but you have to find the funny side of things else you’ll go mad. There’s hope too...

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