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7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 1065660 times
and 356 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1048 of my 3,573 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1139 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
The Gaddafi Effect
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Eleven (with photographs, though they're the same photographs as in Part Ten, so you may have seen them before).
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Tea with the Coppersmith
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Ten (with photographs).
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The Man in the Iran Mosque
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Nine.
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The Great Falafel Kerfuffle
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Eight.
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Just Deserts
The story of a magic carpet-ride through Persia - Part Seven.
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Jeremy Clarkson's internal organs
Posted on Thu, 14 Aug 2025
I could probably accept Jeremy Clarkson's kidney if there were no others available anywhere in the world and as long as he wasn't still attached to it.
I'm really pleased that you've got two new kittens. I didn't like to say before...
Read full commentPosted in Admissions Impossible
In conquered lands...
Posted on Fri, 15 Aug 2025
With every passing day these words become more relevant. As the bloated bellies of the honchos expand, so does the number of those dining with the dead.
Read full commentPosted in Famine - For Real
Lovely
Posted on Thu, 14 Aug 2025
Lovely words depicting a lovely day.
Nice one Jenny.
Read full commentPosted in Fragments Of Life
Technicolour dreams
Posted on Wed, 13 Aug 2025
A phenomenon not easy to describe in words but you've risen to the task beautifully Paul.
Read full commentPosted in Borealis
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.
Read full commentPosted in St Ives, Summer 1993
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.
Read full commentPosted in For a Fan Coral
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...
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