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Love Story 16
We’d arranged to meet by the coal cellar, when it was dark. I’d already checked. The lights in Mrs Connolly’s house were out. Apart from the one in...
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Love Story 15
Ali came to my room after dinner. It was too cold to do anything. So we rolled about my bed, cuddling and kissing. She moaned a few times. Flashed...
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Love Story 14
Mum made us both a pot of tea and put out a plate of Digestive. We sat at the table, knee to knee. She had her fags. I’d my biscuits to dunk in my...
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Love Story 13
Da came through for his dinner. He glanced at us talking and laughing, grunted something, as he drowned the fish in salt and vinegar. Picked up his...
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Love Story 12
Mum had a cup of tea on the go and the chip pan on to make Da’s tea. Animal fat and incinerated starch creating a sticky vapour that clung to every...
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ah, difficult and breathing
Posted on Sat, 09 Nov 2024
ah, difficult and breathing is always optional, paternity fade out.
Read full commentPosted in A different way to measure time
43 it is then. Or isn't.
Posted on Mon, 11 Nov 2024
43 it is then. Or isn't. There are no such things as facts now. Dead bodies don't exist. Women and children died of natural causes. They are just trying to find which bits fit together.
Read full commentPosted in Letter of Rejection
good to see you (I mean
Posted on Sat, 09 Nov 2024
good to see you (I mean Archibald) off the sauce and back to wriing about booze.
Read full commentPosted in Who's That Girl? (Dead Reckoning series - Part 34)
you are fire, the creator.
Posted on Fri, 08 Nov 2024
you are fire, the creator.
Read full commentPosted in Watching the Fire
Ah Atlantic praise for this
Posted on Thu, 07 Nov 2024
Ah Atlantic praise for this mourning note to Scottishness or is it Norseness?
Read full commentPosted in East Coast Scotland (Reflection)
'feeling a little ridiculous'
Posted on Wed, 06 Nov 2024
'feeling a little ridiculous'. Fine for stories and narrative. But not for scripts? It's all show and tell. Feelings fall into that world of neither?
BBC is now open for scripts of 30 pages or longer.
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Read full commentPosted in Meat Crimes - Scene 4
I'm not sure it is surreal.
Posted on Wed, 06 Nov 2024
I'm not sure it is surreal. It feels very, very real.
Read full commentPosted in Message : Post Scriptum
we're all complicated. When
Posted on Sun, 03 Nov 2024
we're all complicated. When we make life simple, we start lying.
Read full commentPosted in He Was
State-sanctioned hate is the
Posted on Sun, 03 Nov 2024
State-sanctioned hate is the worst kind. Whether it is burning witches in the name of religion or setting up death camps to close the doors and murder those mouths that are unworthy of life. Trump is evil for the reason he is filled with hate and...
Read full commentPosted in I HATE YOU!
I'm a great fan of A Sudden
Posted on Fri, 01 Nov 2024
I'm a great fan of A Sudden Lavender, one of the best books I've never read.
Read full commentPosted in The Politician's Daughter
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