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Terence Mullan
I shaved my head again today. I shave it every couple of months to disguise the fact that I’m going bald.
My stories
Arabesque
When she hears it, she will know.
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They Can Only Do Harm
In the Free World the cost of living is going up at an alarming rate.
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I Feel Like I’m Fixing to Tie-Dye My Raggy Socks
The second half of my description of my experiences of the first month of the year in which I last used leva banknotes to pay for my weekly shop. The one hundred words per day rule applies, as usual.
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I’ve Got a Gal in Tiramisu
The first half of my description of my experiences of the first month of the year in which I first used euro banknotes to pay for my weekly shop. The one hundred words per day rule applies, as usual.
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A Right Pen and Ink
A job’s always a lot easier when you’ve got the right kit.
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Belshazzar's or Bust
Posted on Wed, 25 Feb 2026
But lest I paint too bleak a picture...
You’ve done the complete opposite. The detail with which you’ve described your town tells me it’s packed with places that I’d spend much of my time in if I lived there.
When Mary...
Read full commentPosted in 5. Secondhand Prose
Ramsgate '71
Posted on Wed, 18 Feb 2026
I get Tom, completely. From being a kid to becoming a pensioner I felt a lead weight in my belly at the end of every holiday I ever went on. On the way home from our six-week family holiday in Ramsgate in the summer of 1971 I was tearful and...
Read full commentPosted in Tom All Alone (13)
Clifton
Posted on Thu, 05 Feb 2026
Clifton's a lovely place Jenny. I've many great memories of it too. This is going to wreck my credibility as a would-be hippy but I once saw S Club 7 and Billie Piper performing live at the The Radio One Big Sunday gig on Clifton Downs. I might...
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Stories
Posted on Sun, 01 Feb 2026
Good on you for doing that Kat. It saddens me to think that so many wonderful stories of people I've known have been lost when they passed away, especially considering how different the times were that they lived through.
If I was the boss...
Read full commentPosted in I’ve Got a Gal in Tiramisu
Philtrum fun
Posted on Sun, 01 Feb 2026
Righto IPFN. That's sound advice. I wonder if Elon Musk ever reads this. Have I written anything that requires editing?
I love it when body parts have ambiguous names that people are sometimes nervous about mentioning. It's so easy to get...
Read full commentPosted in I’ve Got a Gal in Tiramisu
Embarking
Posted on Thu, 29 Jan 2026
Hiya Jenny.
I really like this bit...
embarking
on season's journey into spring,
with swiftness, rapid as a feline's
natural shift.
It's what I'm...
Read full commentPosted in Rapid Shift Of Weather
Nuns
Posted on Sun, 18 Jan 2026
The lack of sex education is certainly a major contributing factor to the problem. As you say, it was good that the unmarried mothers at least had the likes of Nazareth House to go to, but that shouldn't have been necessary. Thankfully society...
Read full commentPosted in Letter to Ann Lovett (1968 - 1984)
Emotions
Posted on Sun, 18 Jan 2026
Thanks Kat.
The families, the authorities and the church pulled the raw emotions of these poor girls in all directions, and they were nearly always very young. With nobody to turn to it must have been absolute hell for them. There’s been a...
Read full commentPosted in Letter to Ann Lovett (1968 - 1984)
Out of Innocence
Posted on Sun, 18 Jan 2026
Such powerful words you have there Jane, and it’s a story the likes of which were repeated over and over again in Ireland. In the Catholic schools, young innocents (myself included) were told to love all those around them, but to teach them...
Read full commentPosted in Letter to Ann Lovett (1968 - 1984)
Vengeance
Posted on Fri, 09 Jan 2026
When I hear people talking about hatred and revenge I usually remind them of these words of Mahatma Gandhi's...
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
And those people who cannot see this must already be...
Read full commentPosted in Oh, for Stirrings and Softenings!
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