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7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 879054 times
and 327 of my stories have been cherry picked.
992 of my 3,472 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1067 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
Yantra Mantra
Oh Yantra, river of my dreams...
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Three O’Clock Sheep Club
A crowded but lonely place.
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Me and My Muezzin
When I was a lad I worked on big ships. Here I describe the Suez Canal stretch of a sea passage from Quebec City in Canada to Colombo in Sri Lanka round about 1977. Our ship was loaded with a bulk cargo of poverty relief grain financed by the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA). Some of my writing is an embellishment of the truth and a little bit of it is the result of pure imagination, but this poem is as near to the truth as I could get whilst attempting to remain poetic.
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Jacques in the Box
A mysterious woman’s trunk of treasures.
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The Fall of the Mountain King
The best laid plans of teenage dreamers often go awry.
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Bravo!
Posted on Tue, 06 May 2025
Very well done Jane. Fingers crossed here for the book. Unlike IPFN, I do have a hat to eat if it doesn't get published but hats tend to give me indigestion, especially sombreros.
And it will get published anyway.
Read full commentPosted in Parcel for You - Part 61 (the end)
Ar Zhao
Posted on Wed, 07 May 2025
Ayup ar Zhao! Is tha lakin' at snooker terneet?
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Energetic
Posted on Thu, 01 May 2025
Isn't energetic just the perfect word for describing the spring?
A great poem Jenny. Congratulations on all the accolades.
Read full commentPosted in Triumphant Folly In The Park
Old Quarry
Posted on Fri, 25 Apr 2025
We never know what characters hide behind those scary faces. Better safe than sorry, every time for children and adults.
When I was nine and living in York, a lorry driver stopped and offered me a lift. I often think back and wonder what...
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Scary stuff
Posted on Fri, 25 Apr 2025
Such a shame that a lovely adventure should go so horribly wrong. You did right to run away as it could have gone even more horribly wrong. A story of two extremes, and quite disturbing as we never know what is out there. We live in a scary world...
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Petty cash
Posted on Thu, 17 Apr 2025
The money I gave to Kavinda was approximately one tenth of my weekly wage at the time, so not much at all to me but a fortune to him.
I've written part three but it's too big to fit within the parameters of an ABC post so I've split it and...
Read full commentPosted in Taking Tea - Kavinda and Me
Ships
Posted on Wed, 16 Apr 2025
Thank you very much Jenny.
I think hardship enriches our lives more than riches do, though probably not for Sri Lankans as so many of them have known only hardship.
I worked for the shipping company just short of three years which...
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Wish!
Posted on Mon, 14 Apr 2025
I wish I knew what happens next.
It's nice to see you starting a new story and to be in on it from the beginning. Good luck with it.
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Even older than me
Posted on Sat, 12 Apr 2025
It absolutely amazes me how a living organism can survive so long. Imagine the things it has lived through. I wouldn't want to be an oak tree myself though.
Lovely poem Jenny.
Read full commentPosted in Mighty Ancient Oak
Yeats and Villa
Posted on Wed, 09 Apr 2025
Thanks for that Paul. I pick up the Yeats book from time to time but I'd be fibbing if I said I'd read it from cover to cover. Days with absolutely nothing at all to do are perfect for such literary adventures.
On a totally different...
Read full commentPosted in Nihil Impossibile Erit Vobis
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