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I have 108 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 109860 times and 134 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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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.

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Beneath Cnoc Daod

It would be hard to find a place more beautiful, peaceful and welcoming than the Beara Peninsula in West Cork.
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You Never Said

For someone I loved a long time ago, you know.
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Hot Cross Bun Blues

If only they had a branch of Sainsbury’s in the Mississippi Delta.
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Nellie the Devilment

How smiling eyes and a Derry accent can get you almost anything you want.
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496 of my comments have received 515 Great Feedback votes

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Hoover

Posted on Wed, 03 Jan 2024

Thanks to you too Di.

Send your Hoover over here with a nice crisp tenner and we'll have it fixed for you before you can say Dimitar's your uncle. 

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Posted in This Sort of Thing - December 2023 - Side B

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There's a lot of thinking

Posted on Tue, 02 Jan 2024

There's a lot of thinking going on here, and wondering. Involuntary thinking, perhaps. I like the way the raindrops dictate the rhythm of your morning.

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Posted in New year

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Very best wishes to you.

Posted on Tue, 02 Jan 2024

Ah, 6th January... Women's Christmas in Ireland. I hope all goes well for you and Siobhán and you both have a great time then and long after.

It's good and brave of you to share your story, problems and personal thoughts with us here....

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Posted in New year's rant

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If ever I form a punk band,

Posted on Sat, 30 Dec 2023

If ever I form a punk band, with your approval, I'll call it A Box Full of Kale.

I'm glad I was on the right track. 

Flogging Molly are a great band, by the way. Here I'm still mourning the recent departure of Shane MacGowan. 

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Posted in Smashing pumpkins

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I’ll put a knobbly lorry

Posted on Sat, 30 Dec 2023

I’ll put a knobbly lorry under me in bed …

An effective measure but maybe a bit drastic. I'd have probably gone for a couple of bits of Lego.

Nice poem Rhiannon... entertaining and amusing.

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Posted in “This night I will …”

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Having formerly lived in

Posted on Sat, 30 Dec 2023

Having formerly lived in Wiltshire for many a moon, I would have calculated from your words that you had set this poem in that part of the world, even if you hadn't told me.

Superstition, antiquity and mystery; this is the stuff of the...

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Posted in The Witches of Long Compton

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This is certainly a poem with

Posted on Wed, 27 Dec 2023

This is certainly a poem with a difference. Very cleverly done. 

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Posted in Reappearing Poem

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Chez Ó Maoláin

Posted on Thu, 28 Dec 2023

Yes thank you Di. All is rosy at the moment chez Ó Maoláin.

I hope you are fit and well yourself and you got your son and his illness and his sick note sorted out. 

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Posted in Lingo Bingo

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Fiction, yes, but more

Posted on Wed, 27 Dec 2023

Fiction, yes, but more believable than what some people claim to be the truth.

Nice one Paul. Very enjoyable.

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Posted in The Masque of the Red-Faced Boris

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Sorry won’t be enough...

Posted on Tue, 26 Dec 2023

Sorry won’t be enough... exactly!

Their thoughts and prayers worth even less.. 

 

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Posted in Even Croesus Had To Sleep

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