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I have 188 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 614495 times and 262 of my stories have been cherry picked.
794 of my 2,888 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 840 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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Crucial Moves of Fantasy

Sit back and watch the sea above Where images of waves and whales and fish and ships Collide and slide and get mixed up Until it is a sea no more But...
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Cherry

A Hot Afternoon in Malki Chiflik

Nothing moves. There is no breeze. No birds fly by in the cloudless sky. No creature has the will to disturb the cruel tranquillity. Not even bees...
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Frosty the Snowman

I was going to go out to the garden and build a snowman but then I remembered that I needed to put some fat on the cat’s abscess. I haven’t been...
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794 of my comments have received 840 Great Feedback votes

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Having lived in the West Country

Posted on Wed, 03 Jan 2024

Having lived in the West Country for twenty years, none of this surprises me Paul. 

A well written and gripping tale.

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Posted in Abyss

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I really like this. I like

Posted on Sat, 06 Jan 2024

I really like this. I like the way you've highlighted how water is used over and over again in nature; many times in the past and many times in the future, as well as here and now.

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Posted in Autobiography (but not mine!)

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Hoover

Posted on Wed, 03 Jan 2024

Thanks to you too Di.

Send your Hoover over here with a nice crisp tenner and we'll have it fixed for you before you can say Dimitar's your uncle. 

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Posted in This Sort of Thing - December 2023 - Side B

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There's a lot of thinking

Posted on Tue, 02 Jan 2024

There's a lot of thinking going on here, and wondering. Involuntary thinking, perhaps. I like the way the raindrops dictate the rhythm of your morning.

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Posted in New year

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Very best wishes to you.

Posted on Tue, 02 Jan 2024

Ah, 6th January... Women's Christmas in Ireland. I hope all goes well for you and Siobhán and you both have a great time then and long after.

It's good and brave of you to share your story, problems and personal thoughts with us here....

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Posted in New year's rant

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If ever I form a punk band,

Posted on Sat, 30 Dec 2023

If ever I form a punk band, with your approval, I'll call it A Box Full of Kale.

I'm glad I was on the right track. 

Flogging Molly are a great band, by the way. Here I'm still mourning the recent departure of Shane MacGowan. 

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Posted in Smashing pumpkins

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I’ll put a knobbly lorry

Posted on Sat, 30 Dec 2023

I’ll put a knobbly lorry under me in bed …

An effective measure but maybe a bit drastic. I'd have probably gone for a couple of bits of Lego.

Nice poem Rhiannon... entertaining and amusing.

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Posted in “This night I will …”

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Having formerly lived in

Posted on Sat, 30 Dec 2023

Having formerly lived in Wiltshire for many a moon, I would have calculated from your words that you had set this poem in that part of the world, even if you hadn't told me.

Superstition, antiquity and mystery; this is the stuff of the...

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Posted in The Witches of Long Compton

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Chez Ó Maoláin

Posted on Thu, 28 Dec 2023

Yes thank you Di. All is rosy at the moment chez Ó Maoláin.

I hope you are fit and well yourself and you got your son and his illness and his sick note sorted out. 

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Posted in Lingo Bingo

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Fiction, yes, but more

Posted on Wed, 27 Dec 2023

Fiction, yes, but more believable than what some people claim to be the truth.

Nice one Paul. Very enjoyable.

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Posted in The Masque of the Red-Faced Boris

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