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I have 179 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 534294 times and 247 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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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.

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Crado Come Home

Me and the world around me during the second half of July 2024, in 100 words per day.
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All the President’s Biscuits

Me and the world around me during the first half of July 2024, in 100 words per day.
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Candi Staton, the Sea and Me

Memories of my last night before becoming a salty sea dog. It all happened at the Devon public house in the fashionable Cross Gates district of Leeds, round about the end of August 1976.
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Tang Hall Beck

Sunny Saturdays with the sticklebacks and my friend John Lancaster. A memory of York from 1966.
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Eric’s War

A concise history of World War Two as told to me long ago by my dear old friend Eric. Additional material was provided by his lovely wife Peggy.
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764 of my comments have received 810 Great Feedback votes

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Scary stuff

Posted on Fri, 25 Apr 2025

Such a shame that a lovely adventure should go so horribly wrong. You did right to run away as it could have gone even more horribly wrong. A story of two extremes, and quite disturbing as we never know what is out there. We live in a scary world...

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Petty cash

Posted on Thu, 17 Apr 2025

The money I gave to Kavinda was approximately one tenth of my weekly wage at the time, so not much at all to me but a fortune to him.

I've written part three but it's too big to fit within the parameters of an ABC post so I've split it and...

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Posted in Taking Tea - Kavinda and Me

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Ships

Posted on Wed, 16 Apr 2025

Thank you very much Jenny.

I think hardship enriches our lives more than riches do, though probably not for Sri Lankans as so many of them have known only hardship.

I worked for the shipping company just short of three years which...

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Wish!

Posted on Mon, 14 Apr 2025

I wish I knew what happens next.

It's nice to see you starting a new story and to be in on it from the beginning. Good luck with it.

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Even older than me

Posted on Sat, 12 Apr 2025

It absolutely amazes me how a living organism can survive so long. Imagine the things it has lived through. I wouldn't want to be an oak tree myself though. 

Lovely poem Jenny.

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Posted in Mighty Ancient Oak

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Yeats and Villa

Posted on Wed, 09 Apr 2025

Thanks for that Paul. I pick up the Yeats book from time to time but I'd be fibbing if I said I'd read it from cover to cover. Days with absolutely nothing at all to do are perfect for such literary adventures.

On a totally different...

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Posted in Nihil Impossibile Erit Vobis

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A gripping beginning

Posted on Mon, 01 Aug 2022

A gripping end to the first instalment. I feel this is going to be an altogether gripping tale.

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Perfidia

Posted on Sun, 06 Apr 2025

I must confess that I've only started reading Willow's Missing Tail quite recently. I'm enjoying the read but a bit lost at times (most times) so I can see that I need to go the very beginning and start from scratch. Don't wait for me though....

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Dirndl

Posted on Thu, 03 Apr 2025

Ta CM. That's my weekend entertainment sorted.

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Walking free

Posted on Thu, 03 Apr 2025

It's nice to think that humans could walk as free as the untamed creatures. It takes a lot of bottle for us to turn our backs on the superficial trappings that deter us from it while for many there is no choice.

Strong words to describe a...

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Posted in The Young Man

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