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7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 334731 times
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685 of my 2,531 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 717 votes
Terence Mullan
During the hot Balkan afternoons it’s grand to lie on the settee with jugs of glacial tea and a summer soundtrack. Joni Mitchell, Joseph Canteloube, Bob Marley and Mississippi John Hurt on scratchy vinyl all sooth as Pavlovian mosquitos snarl from their sides of insect screens.
Those afternoons will be back soon, I hope. I don't care for this having to wear socks nonsense.
My stories
Benches & Hedges
If you turn off your mind, relax and float downstream you might just find there’s a lot more than botany to discover in a garden, especially in Leeds.
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Crado Come Home
Me and the world around me during the second half of July 2024, in 100 words per day.
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All the President’s Biscuits
Me and the world around me during the first half of July 2024, in 100 words per day.
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Candi Staton, the Sea and Me
Memories of my last night before becoming a salty sea dog. It all happened at the Devon public house in the fashionable Cross Gates district of Leeds, round about the end of August 1976.
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Tang Hall Beck
Sunny Saturdays with the sticklebacks and my friend John Lancaster. A memory of York from 1966.
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Very good words
Posted on Fri, 24 Jan 2025
Old books and the scent of worn leather
Set this way back in time, creating atmosphere
and what she knows about him adds mystery and intrigue.
Very good words Paul.
Read full commentPosted in Portal
Why?
Posted on Mon, 13 Jan 2025
The subject of your story is one of a serious and disturbing nature. I’d be interested to know how you see fit to include the acronym ‘LOL’ in the title.
Read full commentPosted in LOL! Part Two.
Sad news
Posted on Sat, 11 Jan 2025
I'm so very sorry to hear your sad news. I admire you for the way you have been able to put your feelings of loss into a poem, though I suspect there are no real words that would adequately describe the depth of your hurting. Memories of such a...
Read full commentPosted in "Silence"
He's fallen in the water.
Posted on Sat, 11 Jan 2025
It's incredible how when something goes badly, or totally wrong, it can lead on to a series of good things in our lives. I'd say this happened to me and possibly / probably to most people, though not everybody... sometimes things are far too...
Read full commentPosted in This Is Where The Story Starts
Setting number 8
Posted on Thu, 09 Jan 2025
An inner privacy's a great place. I thrive in mine. People sometimes think I'm miserable or depressed but I'm not. I'm just being alone whilst in the company of others, knowing that I'm not boring anybody and that I'm not likely to be disagreed...
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Cheerful but violent
Posted on Tue, 07 Jan 2025
Hello Paul.
The 'Boro also had the Brazilian Junior and Fabrizio Ravanelli before football was overloaded with imported players. Ravanelli was said to be the first player in British football to run round with his shirt over his head in a...
Read full commentPosted in Eleven Thousand Silent Playmates
Compelling
Posted on Sat, 04 Jan 2025
Every picture tells a story and every story sparks a thousand emotions.
This makes compelling reading Harry, as always.
Read full commentPosted in Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Photographs
Karaoke
Posted on Tue, 07 Jan 2025
That's brilliant!
I'm looking forward to the update and the full song.
I read your words as I listened to the music. It was like a proper little karaoke session.
Read full commentPosted in Hard Pressed
Rory & Jimi
Posted on Tue, 07 Jan 2025
Jimmy Hendrix was once asked how it feels to be the best guitar player in the world. He replied - ask Rory Gallagher.
He was another one who died too early, in 1995 at the age of 47, as a consequence of wrongly prescribed drugs for the...
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Auto Rector
Posted on Fri, 03 Jan 2025
I'd offer to help but I've never found the switch to turn it on. Not within ABC anyway.
Read full commentPosted in All the Chai in China
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