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Most folk called her Pet
Pet held up and out a bent strip of cardboard, which was difficult to read in the rain, ‘London,’ block capitals, in blue marker pen. The sign...
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Le Cock: My Struggle.
I’m reading ‘The International Literary Phenomenon’, Some Rain Must Fall: My Struggle, Book 5 , by Karl Ove Knausgaard. Cliché after cliché so it...
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ghosts not spirits
The pale green Audi with a ladder strapped to the roof jerks to a stop in the angled strip of road before the bus stop and the Irish Pope bursts into...
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the gothic line
Dinner begins with a closed door Smell of mince and totties Worse than the dentist’s chair Shut-up and sit over there Plate piled high as a rabbit...
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shitehouse to shitehawk: a user's guide
I jot things down. Sometimes I order them later, or they order me. Usually, I don’t. That’s called the first draft. It’s full of grammatical mistakes...
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Fathers are a strange breed.
Posted on Mon, 01 May 2017
Fathers are a strange breed. I didn't know mine either, even though he was nominally there when my mum brought us up. I take after my father, of course.
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aye, as an old baldy, I
Posted on Sat, 18 Mar 2017
aye, as an old baldy, I sympathise. No next time!
Read full commentPosted in The border of earth
nicely done.
Posted on Fri, 10 Mar 2017
nicely done.
Read full commentPosted in 'Sourire' Haiku Set
a trumpet for a brother, a
Posted on Sun, 26 Feb 2017
a trumpet for a brother, a trumpet for a sister, my guess is your guess, is that the broom that sweeps may, indeed, sweep us all away.
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I know lots of stories about
Posted on Fri, 24 Feb 2017
I know lots of stories about drinking and drunks, some funny, some sad, some funny and sad at the same time. How do we reach honesty? That's a different story, and one which I'm not quite sure how it ends. I think you've had a good crack at here...
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I like that Phil. All writing
Posted on Tue, 21 Feb 2017
I like that Phil. All writing is the Wizard of Oz pulling the curtain away. You know that because you do it too.
Read full commentPosted in grimms31
if you don't know if it's
Posted on Mon, 23 Jan 2017
if you don't know if it's fact or fiction, then that's a good measure. Not that it matters. We're all fictional creations. Life catches us all. Death, last and forever.
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two storey. (American
Posted on Sat, 11 Feb 2017
two storey. (American spelling story). Giro? seems more British than Russian. I guess there's no hyphen in bar top. You don't need top anyway. Bar is sufficient. There's a jump between Putin drinknig and leaving that is muddled. 'Turning on old...
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She aimed a finger at my head
Posted on Wed, 08 Feb 2017
She aimed a finger at my head, and slowly moved it forward until it rested on the gateway of my cursed recession. ' Descriptively, you know what you mean and I know what you mean after I read on, but maybe recession as a lead into baldness is...
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cheers Elsie, I guess the
Posted on Mon, 23 Jan 2017
cheers Elsie, I guess the house is like many others in which the man is king, the wive loyal servant, told what to think and what to do.
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