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grimms30
Jaz catches Pizza Face a slap on the back of the head when he catches him and Tony smoking a roll-up at the bottom of the stairs. ‘Go up to Rab’s and...
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grimms29
After a while Tony and Angela get sick of hiding from a giant dinosaur under the bed and crawl out dusty and uneaten, which is just as well, because...
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grimms28
When Dermot answers the door, he’s not sure what to expect. ‘I’m Marie,’ she says, holding a soft hand out for him to shake. ‘And I’m a social worker...
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grimm27
The school nurse’s grey hair resembles an unkempt blackbird’s nest, with a pokey wee white hat stranded on it. She has squeezed into her white...
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grimms26
Jaz can’t find his house keys and hammers on the front door, flipping the letter box with an untimely rat-a-tat-tat, echoing through the close. Karen...
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I'm a bit like you, I've
Posted on Sat, 30 Nov 2019
I'm a bit like you, I've heard of J.K.Rowling. Haven't read any Harry Potter. But I have hear the myth around how she was working in an Edinburgh coffeeshop...being turned down 12 times is nothing. I've heard of Sheldon, watched a bit of The Big...
Read full commentPosted in Jim Parsons and J.K. Rowling.
gritty and grimy, so he's a
Posted on Sat, 30 Nov 2019
gritty and grimy, so he's a cop, interesting. terriific wring. whose story is it, Gallacher or Crowe's? If it's Crowe's the descripton of him given (change of point of view) by Gallacher needs a bit of work and kinda jams the narrative.
Read full commentPosted in A Quality of inertia (WIP)
Word origin of 'vade mecum'
Posted on Tue, 26 Nov 2019
Word origin of 'vade mecum'
C17: from Latin, literally: go with me
I will walk with you a while in your writing. Alan Bennet's idea of reading as a hand held out which you grasp. Munch's scream is so popular because it allows for...
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Amen.
Posted on Fri, 22 Nov 2019
Amen.
Read full commentPosted in He Who is Sent
a little grace is poetry that
Posted on Sun, 17 Nov 2019
a little grace is poetry that stretches the soul of even hungry ghosts.
Read full commentPosted in Second thoughts
yep, I read this. I like the
Posted on Sun, 17 Nov 2019
yep, I read this. I like the idea of all that fighting over a simulacra. But it was really virtue they were fighting over. Something they couldn't possess. I guess there's a bit of the idea of ideal forms thrown in as well. My answer is longer...
Read full commentPosted in trojan horse
fireworks is big business,
Posted on Fri, 08 Nov 2019
fireworks is big business, but a shrinking business. I guess councils will opt out of having displays. What a waste of money?
Read full commentPosted in Pets And Fireworks.
I guess we all select books
Posted on Fri, 01 Nov 2019
I guess we all select books that we think has value. Our values differ. As do our tastes.
Read full commentPosted in Alien Opportunities Ch.1 : New Opportunities Part 3
It was elves. Elves were
Posted on Fri, 18 Oct 2019
It was elves. Elves were cheaper than robots are now. So they employed them instead of humans. Watch your tense. You tend to move from present to pass tense and back again. |No biggy, but keep an eye on it.
Read full commentPosted in Horn and Hardart Automat - (A day spent with my dad)
I guess we're all armoured by
Posted on Mon, 14 Oct 2019
I guess we're all armoured by indifference - unitl we're undone.
Read full commentPosted in Consulting the Runes
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