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I have 180 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 536420 times and 248 of my stories have been cherry picked.
767 of my 2,804 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 813 votes

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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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This Sort of Thing - November 2023 - First Half

In the words of the great philosopher and visionary, Ronan Keating, 'Life is a rollercoaster, you’ve just got to ride it.' But I'm more inclined to believe that life is a dodgem ride.
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Reasons to Be Bulgarian… Naz-dra-vee!

Bulgaria… a paradise that’s maybe a bit rough round the edges. This beautiful country may not be perfect but it’s the perfect home for me and Priyatelkata. We could never live anywhere else. I took my inspiration from Hristo Botev, my lovely neighbours and Ian Dury.
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The Targovishte Quandary - Part 3 of 3

My dark and disturbing encounter in Eastern Europe – it’s the final countdown!
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The Targovishte Quandary - Part 2 of 3

My dark and disturbing encounter in Eastern Europe continues.
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The Targovishte Quandary - Part 1 of 3

My dark and disturbing encounter in Eastern Europe.
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767 of my comments have received 813 Great Feedback votes

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Humans

Posted on Tue, 30 Jul 2024

Ah, right. The vast majority of my writing is autobiographical and I forget that other people's might not be. So I apologise for this oversight.

Observing human behaviour is something that I spend a lot of my time doing too, though the...

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The Parents

Posted on Tue, 30 Jul 2024

I get you!

We blame our parents but our parents blame their own parents,and so on. The best we can do is break the mould.

With a drawer full of Flintstones and Simpsons socks, I told my kids to scrap Fathers' Day.

 

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Annascaul

Posted on Wed, 31 Jul 2024

Oh, I just love it when I'm wandering Ireland and I bump into an unexpected memorial sculpture. Tom Krean in Annascaul's a great one but my favourite is the statue of Johnny Kilbane who was the World Featherweight Boxing Champion from 1912 to...

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Moving words

Posted on Tue, 30 Jul 2024

Such moving words Jenny. You did very well to write them. I don't think I would be able to touch such an awful topic.

I can sometimes see a slight trace of a motive that might make an atrocity understandable, though not forgivable, but I...

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Ol' Blue Eyes

Posted on Thu, 25 Jul 2024

Frank Sinatra might have been the person who got this ball rolling. He had a hit entitled 'From the Bottom of My Heart' a fair few years before I was born.

But watch out for typos!

'From the heart of my bottom' would change the...

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Positive attitude

Posted on Wed, 24 Jul 2024

There have been times when it's been necessary for me to get myself extra super fit for walking and cycling trips that I've sometimes foolishly agreed to go on but generally I've avoided physical exercise for great swathes of my life.

So...

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Hello dear Jenny.

Posted on Wed, 24 Jul 2024

Hello dear Jenny.

I'm very sorry to hear that you're still suffering with your illness. I hope someone or something can improve your health and mobility soon. I admire you for continuing to write your poetry through it all.

Your...

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Yellow Stickers

Posted on Mon, 22 Jul 2024

Dear TR Maxine,

Do you realise that your latest comment is about ten times longer than your original story? That's impressive. Thank you for enlightening me though. I used to work near a branch of TR Maxx in Bristol but, suspecting that it...

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Sober inebriatist, drunken teetotalist

Posted on Tue, 23 Jul 2024

Excellent words containing a lot of very well thought out rhyme that frantically jumps off the page to emphasise the utter desperation.

Silent Death recaps his ink... a brilliant penultimate line!

I'm not sure if enjoyed is...

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The hole in the ground

Posted on Mon, 22 Jul 2024

Our garden is indeed very big. Friends tell us it is more like a park than a garden. We have hundreds of trees so maybe to be buried under one of the smaller walnuts will be a possibility, though I'd prefer the big ancient one that I often sit...

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