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Boomtown
Podge clutched at the soft fitting on the chair and it helped pull himself upright. Glanced at the pints and tumblers on their table and lifted a...
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Head scratching.
The One Who Must Choose In some traditions (Norse, Slavic, Celtic), fate is flexible. The naked dreamer stands at a crossroads, exposed but empowered...
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McCann case 5
She tugged the high-viz a little over her big belly as they walked back. A rattle in his throat. He dropped back a step, holding a hand up to show he...
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McCann case 4
He was close enough to the other workers to be part of the huddled group of smoker, but far enough away not to get involved. Non-smokers stumbled...
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Pass the Penny Story Challenge 10.
Jenny wanted to wrap herself in the bearskin rug on the cabin floor and take refuge in the forest. She didn’t want to kill anybody, but her daughter...
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glaze (or gaze) both work
Posted on Wed, 15 Apr 2026
glaze (or gaze) both work equally? But some are more equal than others. I suspect we give are the suspects we get. Brain rot has a lot to answer for. I'm not really English. More alienish.
Read full commentPosted in Penny's Pass the Story - Part 10
This is exactly the right
Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2026
This is exactly the right size and shape. I wonder what new doors it will open and by whom?
Read full commentPosted in Penny’s Pass the Parcel - Part 7
I pride myself on being able
Posted on Mon, 16 Mar 2026
I pride myself on being able to mss the most obvious clues. But unfunnily enough, I do know a Snodgrass. I'll go first and leave the solving to better sleuths.
Read full commentPosted in "Penny's Pass the Story"
ah, superpowers. I'd love one
Posted on Sun, 08 Sep 2024
ah, superpowers. I'd love one, but the price is too high.
Read full commentPosted in A hundred moments in autism - A trip to the cinema
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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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...
Read full commentPosted in When Death Comes Too Soon
the bit about trying to write
Posted on Tue, 02 Jun 2026
the bit about trying to write 3 in a different way. Lying down. Sideways. As a four or two. That shows how scrambled you were. And it's great writing.
Read full commentPosted in Tom All Alone 17 (i)
you made the crooked road run
Posted on Sun, 12 Apr 2026
you made the crooked road run straight. Crime doesn't pay. Or so they say.
Read full commentPosted in Penny's Pass The Story - Part 10.
I certainly don't know what
Posted on Thu, 09 Apr 2026
I certainly don't know what to say. Which is a worry. Best just shoot somebody?
Read full commentPosted in "Pass the Story" Chapter 9
Lovely, he's not done.
Posted on Sat, 04 Apr 2026
Lovely, he's not done. Neither am I or think I'm not, but maybe.
Read full commentPosted in Since April
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