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Love Story 24
I’d kissed Ali’s cheek when we left the church. Felt the novelty and glad feeling of having done the right thing. Even though Mum didn’t say so, I...
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Love Story 23
It rained every day and everything closed in before the funeral. Mum had time for a fag before we got into the chauffeured car. The cortege set off,...
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Love Story 22
The Constable looked too small to be a cop even on his tiptoes. A parvenu in uniform just out of the wrapper did little to disguise his weedy build...
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Love Story 21
Da groaned and leaned on me as he lowered himself to the floor and shut his eyes. ‘Don’t die, Da,’ I wailed as he sucked in each breath in and blew...
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Love Story 20
I wore my smartest clothes and shined my shoes before we set off to the Police Station at Hall Street. Nobody else hurrying along the canal in the...
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I'm sure there's a metaphor
Posted on Wed, 27 Aug 2014
I'm sure there's a metaphor here. Spit it out.
Read full commentPosted in Spit Out the Bugs in Your Mouth
Kicked up a gear. Her turning
Posted on Mon, 16 Jun 2014
Kicked up a gear. Her turning on him is good, but maybe express some of the doubts about Ian earlier. A kind of layering effect. His violence towards her is a good way of keeping it real.
Read full commentPosted in Ch26: Stolen July 12th part 2
silence, is often a pause
Posted on Sat, 31 May 2014
silence, is often a pause before the encore.
Read full commentPosted in War of Sounds
us humans are a very old
Posted on Fri, 10 May 2024
us humans are a very old invention. We invariably muck everything up. Even Spencer?
Read full commentPosted in Parcel for you.. Part 25
A foreign yet familiar dream?
Posted on Tue, 07 May 2024
A foreign yet familiar dream?
Read full commentPosted in Complex Dream
We've all got a ratface
Posted on Fri, 03 May 2024
We've all got a ratface lurking and ready to bite. That vamparic energy expelled.
Read full commentPosted in Ratface
ah, Lord of the dance, indeed
Posted on Tue, 30 Apr 2024
ah, Lord of the dance, indeed.
Read full commentPosted in Scotch Measure (Part One)
RIP indeed. Police do not
Posted on Tue, 30 Apr 2024
RIP indeed. Police do not carry guns. That is a good thing. Shooting a man dead is an emotional and understandable response to what is a tragedy. If it was my family, I'd certainly want him shot dead. But our laws are above emotions. Rightly so....
Read full commentPosted in Fifteen Years.
ah, knickers to you too. All
Posted on Mon, 29 Apr 2024
ah, knickers to you too. All mens' pants are the same pair we wear all our life. Through thick and thin they add a skin.
Read full commentPosted in Have you ever had a pair of pants?
I liked the contrasts, but in
Posted on Mon, 29 Apr 2024
I liked the contrasts, but in particular I liked you telling me something I didn't know about who is who in the painting world.
Read full commentPosted in STILL LIFE
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