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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
A Different Tetsubin of Sushi
The hottest days of my life… August’s first fourteen days… 100 words each, as usual.
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Mary's Missing Teapot
A few words of commiseration and respect for all those who have ever lost a teapot.
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Django, Gitáno Gitaristo (Django, Gypsy Guitarist)
For Django Reinhardt, my guitar hero.
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Admissions Impossible
A few lines scribbled to occupy the time between going to bed last night and getting up this morning.
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Our Old Girl… Remembering Coral
I knew Coral (seashore) for only the final two of her eighty-six years. Around our love and sadness for her late daughter Julia (Overthetop1), who herself had been a dear friend forty years before, we formed an incredible bond in that short time. She once described herself as an old crock. To me she was an old crock of gold.
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Grumbling
Posted on Wed, 28 Jan 2026
It's not really Bulgarian weather. We'd expect it to be twenty degrees colder than this at this time of year. However, two weeks ago it was just that and everyone was grumbling. No matter what the weather, people will grumble. Some of us just...
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Points failure at Portway
Posted on Tue, 27 Jan 2026
Ayup Paul.
I was going to write about the daily commute to Bristol Templemeads that I had the pleasure of for six long years a long time ago, but you seem to have beaten me to it.
Great writing, as ever, and it's good to see you...
Read full commentPosted in The Devil’s Bridge
Quink
Posted on Wed, 21 Jan 2026
Try saying that after a few bottles of Quink!
Read full commentPosted in A Right Pen and Ink
Insect Incest
Posted on Wed, 28 Jan 2026
the cicadas were romancing and I was naked
I think your story might have filled a niche in the erotic literature market. Well done!
There's another insect called the common cockchafer... best avoided in my opinion...
Read full commentPosted in A Book Report Influenced by the Absurdity of Life
Spectrum is Green!
Posted on Thu, 29 Jan 2026
Is this about Captain Scarlet and the lovely Angel Interceptor ladies? Shame on them, especially Destiny Angel. I've been carrying the torch for her for sixty years.
Read full commentPosted in S.I.G!
Tamagotchi
Posted on Thu, 29 Jan 2026
Whenever any of my offspring, or the offspring of my offspring, make any sort of unreasonable request for anything at all, I calmly say ‘I want a Tamagotchi’. These words remind all members of our family (particularly my youngest daughter) of an...
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Life on Mars
Posted on Thu, 29 Jan 2026
Perhaps Kandy in Sri Lanka or Sugar Loaf Mountain in Brazil would be a good place to start. Or even Bakewell where the tarts come from. And if all else fails you could start a new life on Mars.
I enjoyed your alternative approach to...
Read full commentPosted in Chewy and Exhausting
Keep up the good work!
Posted on Wed, 21 Jan 2026
You deserve success in the published world, Harry, because not only do you write extremely well but you take writing a lot more seriously than I do. I only do it to fill my spare time in the year's darker months and so that people have something...
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Pick of the Day
Posted on Tue, 20 Jan 2026
Perhaps we should arrange an ABCTales football match. Poets versus storywriters.
Can I be on the same side as Celticman please? I imagine him to be a diminutive winger known for his technique and dribbling skills, being able to go past...
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Coconuts for goalposts
Posted on Tue, 20 Jan 2026
I once played football with kids on a beach near a fishing village in Madagascar. The ball was a rolled up piece of old fishing net and they didn’t own jumpers so they couldn’t even use jumpers for goalposts. One little lad was wearing a Chelsea...
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