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carpe diem

By celticman on Mon, 15 Feb 2016

At a personal level I don’t like funerals much. Life everlasting gets a trifle wearing. Leave it the professionals and all that. I brief the priest...

Spiritual

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Trigger

By celticman on Fri, 12 Feb 2016

Homes built by spread sheets Sterling flows half-level to half level Splitsection soundaspace Stuck-up tower blocks. Designed by gods Jean or Jacques...

Historical Fiction

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thank-you notes

By celticman on Mon, 01 Feb 2016

I wrote thank-you notes as a child. A thick HB3 pencil in my chubby mit. The pencil sharpener on the teacher’s desk, head height, was a big thing...

Romance

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Bernie the bolt.

By celticman on Fri, 22 Jan 2016

I got a text message on the way back from Dalmuir Station. I checked my phone. Saw it was from Bernie. “Cm up & see me,” it read. His flat was...

Science fiction

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I've always wanted a tsunami

Posted on Mon, 19 Dec 2016

I've always wanted a tsunami you could fold up in your pocket.

Posted in Her father was a thunderstorm

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bit about writing books,

Posted on Tue, 13 Dec 2016

bit about writing books, writing block, finding a publisher and utopism. I particularly liked this idea: 'Power and competition in politics and business greed were sidelined and made unfashionable. Work was necessary but it was not to rule life...

Posted in History Of The Creadds (Ch.13d)

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if you look through your

Posted on Tue, 29 Nov 2016

if you look through your fingers it seems very much like this world, but instead of space travel, simple air travel. that's a good thing to base the future on, being like the past, but with speedbumps. .

Posted in Is Space The Final Frontier? Who Will The Man Of The Future Be? (Ch.13c)

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I prefer the sun, but I guess

Posted on Sun, 27 Nov 2016

I prefer the sun, but I guess I'm not the only one. Without rain I fear makind would be history.

Posted in Rain third position

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30 story in 30 days, you're

Posted on Thu, 24 Nov 2016

30 story in 30 days, you're having a fucking laugh! keep at it.

Posted in BIG JOHN.

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so many invisible days, in so

Posted on Sat, 19 Nov 2016

so many invisible days, in so many ways.

Posted in No Hand to Hold.

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the sweet and the sour the

Posted on Fri, 18 Nov 2016

the sweet and the sour the bouquet of forgotten flower, the aftertaste, that's what makes this poem so great.

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yes, I agree, echo it is for

Posted on Wed, 16 Nov 2016

yes, I agree, echo it is for me.

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a stout heart and a wet mouth

Posted on Wed, 16 Nov 2016

a stout heart and a wet mouth, right enough. But I don't like the start: 'Paidi’s hurled face of wrath.' I'd guess you'd have to put it another way to get the man and his moods right.

Posted in CC 68: The Health of the Salmon

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I really enjoyed reading this

Posted on Sat, 12 Nov 2016

I really enjoyed reading this. The only false note I detected was you saying you were 'socially withdrawn' I prefer the more striaghtforward, I was shy. Reminds me a bit of Jackie Kay going to the same kind of meetings, but for socialists, and...