'So you don't know anything about what happened?' Eleanor G blew some smoke into the air. The sky was turning as red as her lipstick. 'No more n'you...
Your poem posted twice, Luigi, unfortunately, the wrong one was deleted. Here are the comments on the one that was deleted, which, fortunately, I had saved beforehand....
I could smell the stovies, they were the only thing my dad could cook, I did get a bit sick of them, when my mum was in hospital for six months after a brain 'incident', when I was 12.
Do you remember The Numskulls from The Beezer, revived in the Beano in the 90s I think? I'd grown out of comics by then. A very astute update of that, this one. Made me laugh out loud.
Part 4 of an ongoing satire with characters in no way derived from famous public figures, this extremely funny skewering of them is very funny indeed. Please share and/or retweet so that others get a good laugh too.
of this, the found and edited manuscript trope is a belter. Tropes are good, I find the idea that they aren't very annoying. They are semiotic markers, after all.
The contrast with the old typewritten, photo-copied (and earlier still Roneo...
This is our Poem Of the Week for 20 August 2021
Posted on Mon, 16 Aug 2021
This sharply-observed snapshot of the hot Mediterranean summer in Naples is our Poem of the Week. Please share and/or retweet if you like it too.
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Duplicate posting.
Posted on Sun, 15 Aug 2021
Your poem posted twice, Luigi, unfortunately, the wrong one was deleted. Here are the comments on the one that was deleted, which, fortunately, I had saved beforehand....
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This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day
Posted on Wed, 11 Aug 2021
Quirky, bang up to date and tightly written, this is our Pick of the Day. Do please share and/or retweet if you like it too.
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Concur with Jack
Posted on Tue, 10 Aug 2021
It really is a good ending.
I could smell the stovies, they were the only thing my dad could cook, I did get a bit sick of them, when my mum was in hospital for six months after a brain 'incident', when I was 12.
Excellent writing,...
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I'm shallow though
Posted on Mon, 02 Aug 2021
and the only things I remember about Fantastic Voyage are Raquel Welch and that stuff like cotton wool floating about.
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Haha...
Posted on Mon, 02 Aug 2021
Do you remember The Numskulls from The Beezer, revived in the Beano in the 90s I think? I'd grown out of comics by then. A very astute update of that, this one. Made me laugh out loud.
Ewan
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Hahahaha
Posted on Mon, 02 Aug 2021
maybe not, in answer to the narrator's last question.
Didn't think the story would end up there.
Well done.
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This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day
Posted on Wed, 28 Jul 2021
Part 4 of an ongoing satire with characters in no way derived from famous public figures, this extremely funny skewering of them is very funny indeed. Please share and/or retweet so that others get a good laugh too.
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hahhhaahhaaa..
Posted on Wed, 28 Jul 2021
"Michelin Gove", fabulous.
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I remember liking the concept
Posted on Fri, 05 Feb 2021
of this, the found and edited manuscript trope is a belter. Tropes are good, I find the idea that they aren't very annoying. They are semiotic markers, after all.
The contrast with the old typewritten, photo-copied (and earlier still Roneo...
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