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I have 238 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 935798 times and 339 of my stories have been cherry picked.
983 of my 3,409 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1065 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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983 of my comments have received 1065 Great Feedback votes

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I can't describe how I felt

Posted on Sat, 05 Aug 2023

I can't describe how I felt Di. On that day in 2021 when I saw the newspaper article, a few days later when I read what she had written on ABC Tales and then a few weeks after that when her book arrived in the post I felt totally overwhelmed by...

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Posted in Song to My Siren

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Hello Di.

Posted on Sat, 05 Aug 2023

Hello Di.

Thanks for your reply to my comment on your poem. It cheered me up a bit.

I am certainly not rich but I know I will be probably be comfortable for the rest of my life, and I consider myself very very lucky to be in that...

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It's not poverty but profit

Posted on Sat, 05 Aug 2023

It's not poverty but profit that's the sin that's destroying our world.

In so many places things are no longer allowed to exist if they don't make a profit. I can't understand how in Victorian Britain they were able to open public baths,...

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I always feel they need a leg

Posted on Fri, 04 Aug 2023

I always feel they need a leg up to escape the slippery slope. But which leg? So many to choose from.

And I always sing Born Free as I release them and other insects, arachnids and arthropods back into the wild.

It's nice when...

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Posted in Can't escape!

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The only liquid mud that we

Posted on Thu, 03 Aug 2023

The only liquid mud that we have here is the melted chocolate. I've never known a hotter summer than this but at least it reduces my appetite, especially for chocolate.

I enjoy the hot sunny weather but I think I would probably benefit...

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Posted in Mud fondue!

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Please tell Alfred from me

Posted on Tue, 01 Aug 2023

Please tell Alfred from me that one day he will reach a point where he no longer needs to go to work.

Life becomes absolutely wonderful, every day.

It happened to me.

It's called retirement and it's the ultimate carrot....

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Posted in A Bad Deal! By Alfred Muggins

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There's nothing quite like a

Posted on Wed, 02 Aug 2023

There's nothing quite like a meadow as a place to lose yourself. We have more meadow than Julie Andrews had in The Sound of Music. We'll gladly lend you a bit of it.

These words stood out for me...

I attempt to imagine......

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Posted in Under Late Spring Sky

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