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7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 717182 times
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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
The Fall of the Mountain King
The best laid plans of teenage dreamers often go awry.
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Beneath Cnoc Daod
It would be hard to find a place more beautiful, peaceful and welcoming than the Beara Peninsula in West Cork.
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You Never Said
For someone I loved a long time ago, you know.
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Hot Cross Bun Blues
If only they had a branch of Sainsbury’s in the Mississippi Delta.
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Nellie the Devilment
How smiling eyes and a Derry accent can get you almost anything you want.
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Optimism
Posted on Fri, 02 Aug 2024
Thanks L.
My optimism dwindles but will never disappear... that goes for Crado and for the state of the world.
Read full commentPosted in Crado Come Home
Water
Posted on Wed, 31 Jul 2024
feminine and nurturing
masculine force
good or bad
Birth or death... so many contrasting features but water is always part of us.
I love how your words emphasise the extent to which...
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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...
Read full commentPosted in Travelling Alone
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...
Read full commentPosted in Suspended Between Two Worlds
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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