Terrence Oblong

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I have 794 stories published in 41 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 657735 times and 563 of my stories have been cherry picked.
18 of my 737 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 19 votes

Dave Clark

My collections

Adopt A Tiger

American tales

Café Boris

cats and tigers

Christmas hundreds

Death

Election 2010

Every T shirt tells a story

First chapters

Flying Saucer

Gimlet and Finchley

Handsome Tales

Hiccups

Island Hideaway

Isolation Island

Kit Handsome and the busy day at the Big Hotel

Kit Handsome and the Mysterious Strangers

Lordy Lordy

Mid-Life Crisis

New York Trilogy

No-one cares about your creative hub

Reject prose pentathlon stories

Rejected chapters from my novel

Sherlock Holmes and the lost tiger

Statler and Thatcher (deceased)

Tall Tales from the Trenches

Terrence Oblong's Running Shorts

The angels of death

The Campaign for Terrence Oblong

The Conduit

The early works of Terrence Oblong

The Jeremy Corbyn Fun Day

The Radio Wars

The Sausage Dog Today

The Vault

The Voltarol Years

True Tales from an Austere Kingdom

Ulf and Sven

Undercover Agent

Urge for offal

Where I am right now: end Jan to early Feb 2010

My stories

How to write short form prose, 1: the ransom note

By Terrence Oblong on Fri, 17 May 2024

Dear Professor Storos We have your daughter, pay us £16,000 or else. “There’s the ransom note,” said “Hircliff, “Take this Dogboat and post it...

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Undercover Agent 6

By Terrence Oblong on Sun, 05 May 2024

I had one failure in my career as an undercover parrot. Josh Hemmingway. Josh was a known villain, his gang of pulled off a number of robberies and...

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Undercover Agent 5

By Terrence Oblong on Sat, 04 May 2024

The next morning Denton removed my sheet to feed me seed cake. I could see in his face that very moment when he realized I’d been there. That I had...

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Undercover Agent 4

By Terrence Oblong on Sat, 04 May 2024

It took several months, but eventually the information I’d extracted led to Standfast’s arrest and the wrapping up of many of his ongoing scams. I...

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Quinn and the Dinosaur

By Terrence Oblong on Fri, 03 May 2024

Canterbury called Quinn to his office first thing that morning. “Ah, Quinn,” he said. “We’d like to name a dinosaur after you.” “A dinosaur?” said...

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18 of my comments have received 19 Great Feedback votes

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Thanks Di

Posted on Fri, 08 Sep 2023

Thanks Di

I was attacked by a gang of ducks once, when I was eating sandwiches by the river in walk and the ducks decided that the sandwiches were theirs, not mine. I was saved by a dog

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Posted in Today’s TV

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Many thanks Rich & Insert

Posted on Fri, 21 Mar 2014

Many thanks Rich & Insert

Sex is like a rubix cube - I spent £4.99 on a manual showing me how to do it, but didn't really understand it, and found the best way was just to twiddle things around until I found out what worked

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Posted in Sex is like a rubix cube

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We bought a new fridge today,

Posted on Sat, 06 Apr 2024

We bought a new fridge today, very modern, let's see what happens

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Posted in Domestic Help

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Thanks L

Posted on Sat, 06 Feb 2021

Thanks L

Yes, very sad news. Nice Piece in the Liverpool Echo

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Posted in The Campaign for Terrence Oblong - Probe Plus Records

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Find a nearby primary school

Posted on Tue, 28 Jan 2014

Find a nearby primary school and gatecrash the science lessons.

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Posted in The darkness of the universe: Insufficient light or insufficient material?

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Thanks David

Posted on Thu, 25 Aug 2022

Thanks David

I actually wrote this about 6 months ago (hence the reference to the Chancellor being richer than the Queen) - so there really is no excuse for the government doing nothing.

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Posted in True Tales from an Austere Kingdom - Inflation

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Thanks David. I was shocked

Posted on Mon, 22 Aug 2022

Thanks David. I was shocked into this by the recent poll of Express readers which showed that 91% of Express readers back water privatisation, at the same time Starmer has essentially ensured that anyone who backs privatisation of water will not...

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Posted in Statler and Thatcher (deceased) - the energy crisis

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