Tag: Miscellaneous
Friday the 13th
Army Knives and Cuckoo Clocks
Aide-mémoire
I don’t keep a diary. I used to, when I was a teenager. One with a lock and key to which I confided those little secrets that a young girl having underage sex could not publicly reveal. The first kiss; the fumbles and then… exaltation: “we copulated!”, I remember writing. It seemed more grown up than simply say, “we
» Read moreUrsula Flynne’s Terrible Sin
On Winter Nights (Poetry challenge)
Litany
She looks at me Like there’s nothing else to see So longingly Yet pensively As if she doesn’t know what to expect from me. That road is a broken thing A song I no longer sing I’ve walked it many times With my back to the sound of struck chimes. I suggest you stay away from me That song
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AMOS.MAPC.(OXON).A cat’s ta(i)le
I wrote this story some years ago.I recently used it as a memory aid for my dear late wife by reading it to her and reminding us of our days at Oxford.(This is one of four chapters.)
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