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I have 240 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 957818 times and 342 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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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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985 of my comments have received 1067 Great Feedback votes

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We, with a roof over our head

Posted on Wed, 25 Oct 2023

We, with a roof over our head, not rubble ... words that really hit the spot!

We need to consider that each day a smaller and smaller proportion of the world's population can enjoy this privilege. And we should remember this as...

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Posted in Identity

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There are significant amounts

Posted on Tue, 24 Oct 2023

There are significant amounts of work to be done, Rhiannon, if we're going to pierce the darkness of foolish hatred. I fear it's an insurmountable task. I wish I could be proved wrong.

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Posted in One ray at a time

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During my working days I knew

Posted on Tue, 24 Oct 2023

During my working days I knew dozens, probably even hundreds, of people who were victims of dementia. Some of them I had known before the illness struck. Some I only met once or twice. Because of the nature of my work I had to get quite close to...

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Posted in Message From The Care Home Front

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Excellent stuff! A very

Posted on Mon, 23 Oct 2023

Excellent stuff! A very amusing read.

When you introduced the 'lovely second edition of “Death on the Nile”, in Times typeface' I got a bit hot under the collar.

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Posted in The Cold Thesaurus

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Yep... the biggest in the

Posted on Mon, 23 Oct 2023

Yep... the biggest in the land, we were told. Foxwood School in the middle of Seacroft estate in Leeds. It was a comprehensive school purpose built in the 1950s and at the time (way before my time) advocates of the comprehensive system sent their...

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Posted in Come to the Sports Hall

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I'm glad you feel fine and a

Posted on Mon, 23 Oct 2023

I'm glad you feel fine and a bit better than before. It's very brave of you to not just go through this but to write about the experience too. I hope to read many more of your pieces of writing.

Good luck, and good on you.

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Posted in Chemo 2 - dose one

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An enjoyable poem, even

Posted on Mon, 23 Oct 2023

An enjoyable poem, even though it does remind me of the maths lessons at my school.

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Thank you for your comment

Posted on Sat, 21 Oct 2023

Thank you for your comment Rhiannon.

I try not to appear negative but when I look around me now I feel that most things in the world aren't as good as they were when I was a teenager and, in some cases, they're drastically worse.

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Posted in Me and My Muezzin

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