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I have 108 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 109728 times and 134 of my stories have been cherry picked.
496 of my 1,724 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 515 votes

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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

Cherry

The Merry Moth of December

I think that in a previous life I may have been a moth. Although I’ve never eaten a woolly jumper or bashed my brains out on a car windscreen, I can’...

Christmas With Monsieur Bublé

A portfolio of lively tunes A carousel and gay balloons To start, the handsome Gaul festoons Season’s greetings most profound To all of those who’ve...
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Cherry

Fantasies of Enya (with music video)

I'd like to be the owner of a butcher's shop in Newry. I'd like to shake my hips about and sing like Billy Fury. I'd like to be a cosmonaut like...
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Cherry

It Being December

Dulled A mind follows a rainbow Seven shades of jet In hope to find A faerie shoemaker In wee black jacket and cap Tap-tapping at the soles Of...

Hotel Mediterraneo

Sultry and still the sweet night air. Latin music. Crickets chirping. Like a favela in Rio or anywhere But for the sound of Geordies burping. For el...
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496 of my comments have received 515 Great Feedback votes

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There are many people,

Posted on Tue, 17 Oct 2023

There are many people, organisations, places, etc who will offer peace and serenity and enlightenment, and good on them. Each to their own is my philosophy. But I find that nothing in this world brings me the contentedness that I need more than...

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Posted in The Other Side of Paradise

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Lovely words Jenny.

Posted on Mon, 09 Oct 2023

Lovely words Jenny.

They make me think of our dog, Snezhinka. We rescued her from the street when she was a pup so she's still a bit wild, spending a lot of time alone in the forest. I'm sure she has delusions of grandeur. 

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Posted in Through Wolf Eyes

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Don't let go of that flimsy

Posted on Tue, 10 Oct 2023

Don't let go of that flimsy branch Jenny. A bit of mulch round your roots and a mild winter and you'll be grand, I'm sure.

I completely agree with what's been said here about escapism. Reading the words of others and writing my own takes...

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Posted in Curious Magic

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Great story! I enjoyed this..

Posted on Sun, 15 Oct 2023

Great story! I enjoyed this... both parts. But I'm worried that if there is a part three it might be set in a JML women's refuge.  

Vanessa should make him listen to 'The Gift', the song by the Velvet Underground. That would make him think...

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Posted in 'Parcel for you..' Part 2

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'Tis better to have written a

Posted on Mon, 16 Oct 2023

'Tis better to have written a poem and be told that it's crap than never to have never written a poem at all' as Alfred Tennyson's Auntie Elsie once said.

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Posted in Risk Averse

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I was gripped by every word

Posted on Sun, 08 Oct 2023

I was gripped by every word from beginning to end. Partly because it's so well written and partly because I thought it might turn out to be about one of our cats.

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Posted in The little person

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Ah, thanks very much Coral.

Posted on Sun, 15 Oct 2023

Ah, thanks very much Coral.

On the third Sunday in every month I always polish my Turkish silver nipple clamps, so that was the source of inspiration for me today.

Tx

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Posted in Jacques in the Box

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Thank you Celticman.

Posted on Sun, 15 Oct 2023

Thank you Celticman.

I've had this in my head for a while but I was sort of saving it for a week when Motherwell might be chosen as the Inspiration Point.

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Posted in Jacques in the Box

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Oh, alright then IPFN. Sorry

Posted on Sun, 15 Oct 2023

Oh, alright then IPFN. Sorry about that. Perhaps to make the reality a little more interesting I should add that for our duvet covers and stuff we use this big old trunk rescued from an old house in Nova Zagora. Over your side of Europe folks...

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Posted in Jacques in the Box

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This is great! It made me

Posted on Fri, 13 Oct 2023

This is great! It made me laugh.

I've got the bare bones of something on the same subject but I'll put it on the shelf for a few months so's people don't think I'm a big old copy cat. It's also a good excuse to get out of trying to finish...

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Posted in I'll Think About Writing

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