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My stories have been read 1028913 times
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1014 of my 3,479 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1100 votes
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
More Elaines
Elaine and I barely spoke to each other but memories of this gruff, no-nonsense woman have stayed with me for fifty years.
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This Sort of Thing - February 2024 - Last Orders
Written at the rate of 100 words per day, this is the second part of my account of an arduous journey through February via the middle of nowhere.
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This Sort of Thing - February 2024 - Early Doors
Written at the rate of 100 words per day, this is the first part of my account of an arduous journey from the beginning of February to the middle of February.
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Ophidian at Four O’Clock
Happiness is a hot Balkan afternoon...
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Johnny Ten Levs
Johnny’s always drifting around, trying to find, alcohol.
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Brean
Posted on Wed, 13 Aug 2025
I once went to a wedding evening do in a pub in Brean. There were no knives or cat herders but there was a fight. Your description of the peaceful seaside surroundings make me wish I'd gone back on a better day.
Nice one Paul!
Read full commentPosted in Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (5)
A one-off
Posted on Mon, 11 Aug 2025
Thank you Paul.
Each time of reading one of Coral's poems I discover something new in it. Her writing is very deep, as was her personality. I could never match her standard but she definately made me take a second look at my own writing...
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Barbarians of the backwoods
Posted on Tue, 12 Aug 2025
I think it's predominantly people who live there that call it the greatest nation on earth. The rest of us can see through the ever thinning walls of their bubble. Even before Trump arrived on the scene it was a country that had issues with its...
Read full commentPosted in The Greatest Nation On Earth! by Alfred N.Muggins
For Coral
Posted on Fri, 29 Oct 2010
Oh Di, choosing Coral's poem as Pick of the Day today is an absolutely beautiful thing to do.
I know she'd have been delighted.
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Beautiful
Posted on Mon, 11 Aug 2025
What a beautiful thing to post. I love the fact that you have such good memories of her.
Good on you ScoZen.
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She casts spells
Posted on Thu, 07 Aug 2025
That's quite a story Jenny. It's great to think how your imagination must have been running wild and how you managed to write it all down.
I loved the lines
said to me: “she casts spells and is
crazy – think I've...
Read full commentPosted in Woodsman And The Medicine Woman.
Towers
Posted on Thu, 07 Aug 2025
Many hundreds of humans in a vertical stack
is a wonderful way to describe those towers that surrounded me during the days of my youth too. And those comprehensive schools for the honour of which the kids who attended them would...
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Yay!
Posted on Tue, 05 Aug 2025
Yay! Nice one Di,
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Salty
Posted on Wed, 06 Aug 2025
Until the lunchbox appeared you were edging towards blues singer Robert Johnson's meeting at the Crossroads.
But what first caught my eye was
A down-and-out salty sea dog
which made me wonder if you were writing...
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My thoughts
Posted on Tue, 05 Aug 2025
Your poetic description of the beautiful nature around you at this time of year and the situation in Palestine are each at opposite ends of the spectrum of what's exists daily n my mind Di. It increases the need for we in safer countries to...
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