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No Writing for a while

So not been writing for a while. Just getting through each day as it comes. My boyfriend is amazing, patient and everything like that but feel not myself. I feel angry alot, and then sad then happy. This can be in one day. I am struggling with my emotions alot. I am trying to be the best version of me for my boyfriend because if he sees me at my worst... well i don't think he will want me anymore. Stupid thoughts in my head all day everyday. I...

Family Man by Colin Burnett. Review!

I'm very pleased to annnounce the publication of Colin Burnett's new book 'Family Man' ' Adolfo Ali makes his long-awaited return in this fast-moving and unpredictable third outing. Complex anti-hero, Aldo, is the de facto head of Edinburgh’s most powerful crime family. But being a crime boss isn’t what it used to be. Not only does Aldo need to balance his duties running his crew of killers and psychotic hitmen, but he also needs to hope and...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Before announcing our Picks of the Week, I have a couple of things to tell you. Firstly, you have until midnight on Sunday May 3rd to get your entries in for Turlough's wonderful ABCTales Superpoem. Not much time left now! All details here: https://www.abctales.com/blog/insertponceyfrenchnamehere/inaugural-abc-tales-superpoem The resulting Superpoem will be posted on Tuesday May 5th and I can't wait to see it! Secondly, we have another fabulous...

Have Faith in God and Don't Be Afraid

What is faith? Faith is trust in things hoped for and belief in things unseen. We live in a physical world but there is also an invisible realm. To have faith in God is to believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. Hebrews 11:1-6. God is an ever present help in times of trouble. Therefore we will not fear, even if the waters roar and foam and the mountains slip into the sea. There is a river that makes glad the city...

Helen Dunmore (2010) The Betrayal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Betrayal_(Dunmore_novel) Leningrad 1952/53. Stalin has god-like powers. His paranoia has shaped a super-power in which the greater good is defined by the fear of that knock at the door. No one is safe. Volkov is a fictional character. He has the appellation THE attached to his name in whispers. THE Volkov. To show there’s no misunderstanding. It’s really him. With the fear and state-sponsored terror he brings...

Dead Letters: "The Doll"

Filed by Fletcher Moody — Literary Correspondent I should tell you before I begin that I cannot prove any of this happened. The only other witness was a woman named Dora Diamant, who told the story to others after the man in question was dead, and whose account has never been independently confirmed. The letters — if they existed — have never been found. The girl has never been identified. I am aware of how this sounds coming from a...

Clarissa Pinkola Estes (2008 [1992]) Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman.

Maya Angelou’s front-cover endorsement of Women Who Run With the Wolves is one of the most famous blurbs in publishing history. ‘Everyone who can read should read this book.’ I can read and I read the book. Around 2.7 million copies sold. But one of those best-selling books I’d never heard of. I’m not sure why. Probably because I’m a guy. ‘Stories are medicine.’ Strong medicine. Healing medicine. Clarissa Pinkola Estés is a cantadora (a keeper...

Anna & Buster 1966

The Wedding Sussex 410 ~ Union Buildings Pretoria ¬ Mr. & Mrs. Brown ~ Cake & Icing ~ Newlyweds ~ ~ ~ Our Parents

Andrew G.Ralston (2017) The Real Taggarts: Glasgow’s Post-War Crimebusters.

Andrew G.Ralston is hooking a ride on one of Scottish television’s most successful cop shows: Taggart . There’s a big kick and lick of the McIlvanney and Laidlaw on which Taggart is based, the idea of the outsider and insider that contacts investigations in his own way—and comes up trumps every time. Everyone in Glasgow was an extra in Taggart. I got paid for it, so I saw lead actor Mick McManus in action, but I was more interested in the free...

An evening with a literary giant - John Banville talks to Kevin Curran

Its not often a literay heavy weight arrives in our town. But last night at The Millbank Theatre in Rush, County Dublin, John Banville held a captive audience in the palm his hands. Now at the age of 80, Banville spans the last of Irish literature from the 70's, McGahern, Edna O'Brien and Kavanagh, to the present day contemporary fiction. Scholarly in appearance, Banville was dressed smartly, his terracotta coloured scarf matched his highly...

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