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I have 268 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 1363253 times and 387 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1162 of my 3,832 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1280 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.

My stories

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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1162 of my comments have received 1280 Great Feedback votes

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Sad news

Posted on Sat, 11 Jan 2025

I'm so very sorry to hear your sad news. I admire you for the way you have been able to put your feelings of loss into a poem, though I suspect there are no real words that would adequately describe the depth of your hurting. Memories of such a...

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Posted in "Silence"

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He's fallen in the water.

Posted on Sat, 11 Jan 2025

It's incredible how when something goes badly, or totally wrong, it can lead on to a series of good things in our lives. I'd say this happened to me and possibly / probably to most people, though not everybody... sometimes things are far too...

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Posted in This Is Where The Story Starts

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Setting number 8

Posted on Thu, 09 Jan 2025

An inner privacy's a great place. I thrive in mine. People sometimes think I'm miserable or depressed but I'm not. I'm just being alone whilst in the company of others, knowing that I'm not boring anybody and that I'm not likely to be disagreed...

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Posted in Sonnet in Silence

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Cheerful but violent

Posted on Tue, 07 Jan 2025

Hello Paul.

The 'Boro also had the Brazilian Junior and Fabrizio Ravanelli before football was overloaded with imported players. Ravanelli was said to be the first player in British football to run round with his shirt over his head in a...

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Posted in Eleven Thousand Silent Playmates

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Compelling

Posted on Sat, 04 Jan 2025

Every picture tells a story and every story sparks a thousand emotions. 

This makes compelling reading Harry, as always.

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Posted in Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Photographs

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Karaoke

Posted on Tue, 07 Jan 2025

That's brilliant! 

I'm looking forward to the update and the full song.

I read your words as I listened to the music. It was like a proper little karaoke session.

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Posted in Hard Pressed

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Rory & Jimi

Posted on Tue, 07 Jan 2025

Jimmy Hendrix was once asked how it feels to be the best guitar player in the world. He replied - ask Rory Gallagher.

He was another one who died too early, in 1995 at the age of 47, as a consequence of wrongly prescribed drugs for the...

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Posted in A statue of you

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It's nice to know I raised a

Posted on Sun, 05 Jan 2025

It's nice to know I raised a smile.

I have eight cats, all of which I rescued as pathetic starving kittens from the streets near where I live. There are indeed strays around here but most of them stay away because my own cats are so...

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Posted in Cats

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Auto Rector

Posted on Fri, 03 Jan 2025

I'd offer to help but I've never found the switch to turn it on. Not within ABC anyway.

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Posted in All the Chai in China

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Cabbages etc

Posted on Thu, 02 Jan 2025

Ah, you made me do a LOL. I'll try to restrict the conversation to teeth and cabbages next time I'm there. 

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Posted in Mad Dogs and Donkeys

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