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I have 1130 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
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Sean Happens 10

Tiredness and fag smoke glazed Sean’s eyes. He was falling asleep leaning against the work surface, but he wouldn’t give into it or go to bed. His...
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Sean Happens 9

Mr Martin gave Sean a little nudge on the back of his shoulder. ‘Go on then,’ he said. Mum stepped out to meet him. ‘So this is yer little friends,’...
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Cherry

Sean Happens 8

'He dropped me off around the corner from my house. I stood holding open the car door to prolong the moment, but I couldn’t think of anything good...
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Sean Happens 7

We went to see The Poseidon Adventure at the local Odeon. The Spider paid me in and put an arm around my shoulder. We sat in the back seats. His feet...
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Sean Happens 6

Miss Dill and Mr Martin weren’t speaking to each other. It had continued over three or four days. They sent out for takeaways and binned the cups and...
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1387 of my comments have received 1422 Great Feedback votes

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I used to get hot flushes

Posted on Thu, 28 Mar 2024

I used to get hot flushes when I tried to talk to any beautiful girls I'd been at school with. I used the 15 pints and I was ready to roar, rather than the Erazofuge. As I got older I tried cutting down to a reasonable 12 pints. But I had to up...

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Posted in Erazofuge

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tragic, like you I don't have

Posted on Sat, 01 Dec 2018

tragic, like you I don't have an answer. Poverty, not morals is the key. We use the latter as a scapegoat, a standared practice by, for example, Jenhovah Witnesses to get a foot in the door, is to say how much worse the world is getting. They've...

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Posted in When Death Comes Too Soon

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doubt unravels us, but

Posted on Tue, 23 Apr 2024

doubt unravels us, but sometimes that can be a good thing. the greatest lie may be the one we tell ourselves. 

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Posted in Doubt

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Yes, she really was saintly

Posted on Thu, 21 Mar 2024

Yes, she really was saintly and human too. 

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Posted in Remembering Corrie ten Boom

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the moron's moron is German,

Posted on Tue, 19 Mar 2024

the moron's moron is German, obviously. His mother was a wee Free. Obviously too free to have a narcisstic psychopath rapist embezzeler (I might have missed a few, add  your own) for a son. We don't count population that way. We include midges,...

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Posted in Too Many Tabs Open

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I suppose we all end up with

Posted on Mon, 26 Feb 2024

I suppose we all end up with a woman (or man) we've only know a short while. I guess we'll fall back on they were a different generation. We're a different generation too. Perhaps if we write it down that'll help?

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Posted in Muscle memory

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I shaved my dad before he

Posted on Mon, 26 Feb 2024

I shaved my dad before he died. Lived with him and worked with him. Never knew him. The strange thing is my sisters say I'm the dead spit of him. hmmmm. 

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Posted in Muscle memory

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an epidemic of homelessness.

Posted on Tue, 19 Dec 2023

an epidemic of homelessness. normalised. 

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Posted in 6:26am Train

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The next BBC Open Call

Posted on Tue, 31 Oct 2023

The next BBC Open Call submission window will be open between 12 noon on Tuesday 7th November 2023 and 12 noon on Tuesday 5th December 2023.

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Posted in Parcel for you....Part 6

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ah words sometimes fall short

Posted on Sat, 21 Oct 2023

ah words sometimes fall short, but you have risen to the challenge of raising the dead to something like remembrance. 

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Posted in Mother-tongue

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