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Terence Mullan
Down the years I have lived in many places and I have done many jobs. Now I live in Bulgaria and the only work I do is tending to my lovely garden when the sun is shining and scribbling away in my big book of writing stuff when it is not.
I may have left it too late in life to become a famous writer or celebrated gardener but I will persevere anyway. These are the things that occupy me in a seemingly effortless and satisfying way.
My stories
A Hot Little Model from France
The kitchen took on the appearance of an overfilled Greetings from Murmansk snow globe as the door flew open and in gushed a torrent of winter’s...
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For Yer Women, the Women
All the year they scrub the homes From Skibbereen to Portglenone. They work their fingers to the bone, Afraid to pause to moan or groan. They milk...
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Priyatelka, Turlough and the House of Cats
She was sleeping in a gas station, south from here on route E85. I asked the pump attendant, ‘You think that little feline’s still alive?’ He said ‘...
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Keeping Teeth and Kidneys for Beginners
According to my team of researchers, Bulgaria has the cheapest beer in the world. At least one bottle of rakia, that well known cure-all,...
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Before The Year Is Gone
Around New Year and before Lent, the Kukeri walk and dance through villages to scare away evil spirits with their elaborate costumes and the sound of multiple large bells attached to their belts. They are also believed to provide a good harvest, health, and happiness to the village during the year. The Kukeri tradition has been practiced since Thracian times, predominantly in Bulgaria but also in other Balkan countries.
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As you describe these
Posted on Wed, 08 Nov 2023
As you describe these beautiful wild and natural places I like how you remind us of the contrasting steel and glass that blight so much of our world. A little jolt to my warm, sleepy, autumnal head.
And as the world turns...
Read full commentPosted in The Changing of Seasons
This is full of your usual
Posted on Tue, 31 Oct 2023
This is full of your usual wonderful rhyme and rhythm but the final verse took me by surprise, much like when you're watching something amusing and nice on television and you change channels to suddenly discover the awful news of the day.
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Read full commentPosted in One Good Turn
These are lovely words Jenny.
Posted on Mon, 30 Oct 2023
These are lovely words Jenny.
A perfect memorial to your much loved parents. It's clear to see that they had the same passion for the nature around them that you have.
Beautiful!
Read full commentPosted in Remembering
Jessica doesn't sound like
Posted on Mon, 30 Oct 2023
Jessica doesn't sound like any of the teachers that I had at school. You haven't mentioned brutality or the possibility that she might be a nun.
So I'm looking forward to the next bit.
Read full commentPosted in May 4th (chapter 2)
This is extremely good Di.
Posted on Sun, 29 Oct 2023
This is extremely powerful writing Di.
I was sorry to hear about your trees being brought down. Nature is powerful and in time new trees will grow, possibly stronger.
In the Middle East the perpetrators of the current atrocity...
Read full commentPosted in October 2023
And because every day that I
Posted on Fri, 27 Oct 2023
And because every day that I spend with the someone I love is differently new and wonderful it made writing this poem a bit tricky. It was like shooting at a moving target. There were so many bits that I wrote and chopped out I could have used...
Read full commentPosted in Yantra Mantra
There is a constant darkness
Posted on Sat, 28 Oct 2023
There is a constant darkness in my mind at the moment.
Occupation, oppression, apartheid, genocide, inhumanity and, as you said, shame are the words I think of. But a shame deeper than any that has gone before as we sit back and allow this...
Read full commentPosted in open your eyes!
The way names are given and
Posted on Sat, 28 Oct 2023
The way names are given and and messed about with fascinates me. It's usually the case that a lot of thought has gone into them but also sometimes very little thought at a all e.g. my friend's sister Teresa Green.
I'd love to know the...
Read full commentPosted in Middle Name.
Good words Ed. Very moving.
Posted on Fri, 27 Oct 2023
Good words Ed. Very moving.
It's such a shame but not a surprise that posting it again seemed appropriate. But don't put it away just yet as I'm sure there'll be more occasions in the future.
Read full commentPosted in All That Glitters
David's just a guy who can't
Posted on Wed, 25 Oct 2023
David's just a guy who can't say no!
Will there be a Chapter 3? Will he get round the Brian problem? Will his mammy need to buy a hat?
Read full commentPosted in May 4th (chapter 1 part 2)
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