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My stories have been read 39697 times
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Terence Mullan
Down the years I have lived in many places and I have done many jobs. Now I live in Bulgaria and the only work I do is tending to my lovely garden when the sun is shining and scribbling away in my big book of writing stuff when it is not.
I may have left it too late in life to become a famous writer or celebrated gardener but I will persevere anyway. These are the things that occupy me in a seemingly effortless and satisfying way.
My stories
Mother Bulgaria
As Lenin looks down from his sombre pedestal Concrete erupts from a bleak landscape like The broken teeth of windswept peasants Drinking homemade...
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Betty Lewis Eyes
A teapot on a tray she brings. Digestive in each saucer. Horrific tales of war to tell But only if she’s forced to. She’s angelic, prim and ninety...
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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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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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This is great!
Posted on Tue, 04 Jan 2022
This is great!
When I was a working man, many of my less youthful clients worked as volunteers in charity shops. They told me some lovely stories about their colleagues and customers and how a sense of comradeship and doing some good...
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I have several cats and
Posted on Mon, 03 Jan 2022
I have several cats and several lamps. Now I just need to start painting.
I'm just popping off to become fabulously rich. Back soon!
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I find it quite disturbing
Posted on Sun, 02 Jan 2022
I find it quite disturbing when the person behind me in a supermarket check-out queue comments on my choice of coffee, yoghurt, toilet rolls, etc. but your story is deeply disturbing. I doubt I'll be shopping for anything ever again.
Read full commentPosted in Five Other People Are Looking At This Item
It did indeed work. That's
Posted on Fri, 31 Dec 2021
It did indeed work. That's great news. I'll give it a whirl tomorrow.
Thank you very much for that.
Read full commentPosted in Playlist: Plastic Sunrise
I was always under the
Posted on Thu, 30 Dec 2021
I was always under the impression that mistletoe was very harmful to its host trees, but it seems not. So that's a bit of good news to start a new year. I'll redirect my wrath to the ivy now ... another of nature's gems that needs to be...
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I can never resist someone
Posted on Fri, 31 Dec 2021
I can never resist someone else's playlist. This, together with a jug of coffee and the last of the festive biscuits, will keep me occupied for the afternoon.
Честита нова година!
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Your wish is my commanc, so I
Posted on Thu, 30 Dec 2021
Your wish is my command, so I've added masterpieces to my to do list for 2022.
And I wish you all the very best for the New Year.
Read full commentPosted in Haemorrhoid Android
Hello Rhiannon.
Posted on Fri, 31 Dec 2021
Hello Rhiannon.
Your poem is a perfect description of what I see when I walk down the lane to our village.
The words
jaded damp sodden
work so well together to describe the atmosphere at this time of year. ...
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Ed Crane, I really do
Posted on Fri, 31 Dec 2021
Ed Crane, I really do apologise.
That awful song has been stuck in my own head since this morning. I suppose it serves me right for mentioning it.
Chas 'n' Dave's Snooker Loopy is the only fast-working antidote but that's a...
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Your poem describes New Year
Posted on Fri, 31 Dec 2021
Your poem describes New Year celebrations beautifully but with caution and a lot of past tense.
reminding me of lively gatherings
Reminding me of how New Year used to be. In this sad, blighted world I think there'll be as...
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