celticman
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Love Story 10
Mum floated about smoking between the kitchen and living room. Da ruffled the sports’ pages of the Daily Record to show he was reading and didn’t...
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Love Story 9
Jealousy was an accidental sin. Like stabbing your mum in the eye with a fork, while explaining something which you’d forgotten to mention, but she...
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Love Story 8
I agreed to go with Pastor Colin on a mission. He expected me to know what it was without telling me. His silver Ford Escort was more reliable. He...
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Love Story 7
‘I’m not going to school,’ I said. ‘How no?’ she asked. ‘Cause,’ my voice cracked and went up a notch. ‘I’m no well.’ Her arm shot out and a cupped...
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Love Story 6
I vowed to God I’d work hard and turn myself around and no longer look at the stuck-together catalogue pages even if they were just sitting there...
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I guess we all get that kind
Posted on Thu, 21 Mar 2024
I guess we all get that kind of forgetfulness, Jenny. It's the other kind that's the real worry.
Read full commentPosted in What's Not Written
sounds like reality for many
Posted on Thu, 21 Mar 2024
sounds like reality for many and few.
Read full commentPosted in The Spa
ah, we always come back for
Posted on Wed, 20 Mar 2024
ah, we always come back for our own. The moon lent its son.
Read full commentPosted in The Moon Maiden
aye, not long forgotten, not
Posted on Tue, 19 Mar 2024
aye, not long forgotten, not long anything.
Read full commentPosted in We Never Speak of Rose
sorry Scotland is full. It
Posted on Tue, 19 Mar 2024
sorry Scotland is full. It has been for a while. One-out-one-in policy. If you're English you only count as a tenth of person. Nothing personal. Just allowing for Thatcherism, stealing our oil and Brexit (to name the most recent). I'm actually...
Read full commentPosted in Too Many Tabs Open
an avalanche of ideas. They
Posted on Sun, 17 Mar 2024
an avalanche of ideas. They'll make it through. I bet they do.
Read full commentPosted in "Unwanted Magic" 5
Sad in so many ways. Needs to
Posted on Fri, 15 Mar 2024
Sad in so many ways. Needs to be said, the madness. The gun laws. The madness of men that think they own women. Mysogny. Toxic cultures. Sparky Little Paula no more.
Read full commentPosted in Sparkly Little Paula
Thanks Jean. Your stories are
Posted on Fri, 15 Mar 2024
Thanks Jean. Your stories are your memories. They have helped us understand, not what it is to be you--that would be impossible-- but what it is to suffer a progressive illness that will kill us. We all die. Thanks for your goodbye.
Read full commentPosted in The End - part 2
nature laughs. I smile.
Posted on Sun, 10 Mar 2024
nature laughs. I smile.
Read full commentPosted in "Good Morning"
efficiently bet [but] with
Posted on Sat, 09 Mar 2024
efficiently bet [but] with fewer people.
sounds very like the bullshit management speak, but nicely balanced by birth(day).
Read full commentPosted in Keep the perspective
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