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I have 233 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 892112 times and 329 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1004 of my 3,507 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1082 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.

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1004 of my comments have received 1082 Great Feedback votes

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Seeing things

Posted on Wed, 10 Apr 2024

Maybe if you'd spent the £20 on another bottle of the strong drink you'd have seen stars.

An enjoyable read. I'm glad it finished on a positive note.

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Posted in Eclipse

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The length of a stork's life

Posted on Tue, 09 Apr 2024

The length of a stork's life depends upon what you feed it on. They seem to have a fondness for butter substitutes.

There's an absolutely ancient one here with a Geordie accent that mutters on constantly about pink/purple hair, painful...

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Posted in This Sort of Thing - March 2024 - La finale

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The streets of Malki Chiflik

Posted on Tue, 09 Apr 2024

Ah, that's great news Drew. There'll be dancing in the streets of Malki Chiflik tonight.

Thank you very very much.

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Posted in This Sort of Thing - March 2024 - La finale

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Papa was a soothsayer.

Posted on Sat, 06 Apr 2024

Aren't all fathers soothsayers with the words 'told you so' poised on the tips of their tongues even if they hadn't told us so? I think my kids might say I'm guilty of that myself.

An entertaining look at the Gilded Cage. Nice one Jenny...

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Posted in In A Troubled Land

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And Smokey sings...

Posted on Sun, 24 Mar 2024

And Smokey sings...

Now, there's some sad things known to man
But ain't too much sadder than
The tears of a clown when there's no one around

When I was a kid clowns made us laugh but these days their...

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Posted in Swan Song

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I wasn't picking...

Posted on Sun, 17 Mar 2024

Oh no P4AT. I wasn't picking you up on your writing.

I was merely remarking upon the harshness of the mom's critique. Some people (especially mothers) can't seem to get their heads round how difficult it can be to make a few lines rhyme....

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Posted in "Unwanted Magic" 5

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I recently watched a series

Posted on Thu, 21 Mar 2024

I recently watched a series on Netflix called 'The Fall' where a senior police detective (Gillian Anderson of X Files fame) trains herself to keep a dream diary that she makes entries in whenever she wakes up in the middle of the night. I thought...

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Posted in What's Not Written

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I really like your final

Posted on Wed, 20 Mar 2024

I really like your final verse.

There's a big moon in the sky tonight (it was full last night) and we've a large patch of bamboo growing in our garden. I'm going out to have a look. If I come back with a neonate it's all your fault.

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Posted in The Moon Maiden

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