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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
Our Old Girl… Remembering Coral
I knew Coral (seashore) for only the final two of her eighty-six years. Around our love and sadness for her late daughter Julia (Overthetop1), who herself had been a dear friend forty years before, we formed an incredible bond in that short time. She once described herself as an old crock. To me she was an old crock of gold.
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Fire and Rain
If Stevie Wonder had lived in Equatorial Guinea, he’d probably still have thought there was nothing hotter than July in Bulgaria. Here’s one hundred words per day to describe the last fifteen days of a very sweaty month.
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Violetta Are You Better?
If Stevie Wonder had lived in Bulgaria, he’d have realised that there’s nothing hotter than July. Here’s one hundred words per day to describe the first sixteen days of a very sticky month.
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While My Guitar Teacher Gently Weeps
Words of apology to anyone who has ever tried to teach me to play a musical instrument.
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There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Engels
Dyado Petr, Baba Stefka and Todor Zhivkov are/were real people, the earthquake and appointment of a new head of state really did happen, and the places I’ve mentioned really do exist, but much of the rest of this tale is a fig leaf of my imagination. However, it describes an event that could have taken place in my part of Bulgaria seventy years ago. Superstition is so strong and diverse here that it’s possible to make it up and get away with it. Maybe I did make it up and maybe I didn’t.
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Sigh!
Posted on Mon, 23 Mar 2026
A Plovdiv-Tarnovo Compostition
There was young actor called Ryan
Who was very addicted to sighin'
He'd moan and he'd groan
As he sat all alone
In a caff that had no shepherd’s pie in...
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Brian Gosling
Posted on Mon, 23 Mar 2026
Hello Kat.
I had to look up Ryan Gosling on Google, but this is what happens to those of us who live outside the hustle and bustle of Plovdiv society.
Any road, I’ll kick off…
There was young actor called Ryan
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What's going on?
Posted on Mon, 23 Mar 2026
What I have written today is part four of a ten-part series in which each part is written by a different member of ABC Tales.
If you click on this link you’ll see a full explanation of what’s going on.
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Monster
Posted on Mon, 23 Mar 2026
Hello Luigi.
I’m excited to find out what happens next in the sleepy little town. It’s a place of great mystery and intrigue. The story’s advertised as a ten-parter but that’s what they said about Coronation Street in 1960. Have we ABC...
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What's next? Who's next?
Posted on Mon, 23 Mar 2026
Thank you very much Tom.
It’s the end of Mornington Heights as we knew it, but it’s not the end of the story.
I can’t wait to read about what will happen to its residents now that I have finished with them.
Will you be adding...
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Good idea!
Posted on Thu, 19 Mar 2026
Good idea!
And part four is approaching completion.
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Of course!
Posted on Sat, 07 Mar 2026
Well isn't that lot just exactly what I wear all the time?
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This is such an honour.
Posted on Sat, 07 Mar 2026
Oh, I don’t know where to start. This is such an honour. I’d like to thank my mother and the milkman, my agent, my homeopath, my acupuncturist, the Dagenham Girl Pipers, Johnny Ten Levs, the team at Mucky Monika’s Massage Parlour, and last but...
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Shame
Posted on Sat, 14 Mar 2026
Knowing what to say, either way, is very difficult and explaining exactly what is expected or not expected from a simple meet up for a drink can take the shine off the circumstances that have led up to it. It's a huge shame that we have this...
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Cheeky, or not cheeky
Posted on Sat, 14 Mar 2026
There are different levels to this, in my opinion. At the bottom there's the dark threatening expectation of something intimate happening and at the top there's the cheeky innuendo.
Cheeky innuendo makes the world go round. When I was...
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