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Samyaza Chapter 13, Camp Mitkan August 2006

10th July 2022 Blown Periphery 2987 Comments

Afarin lay back on the bed, an emptiness in her stomach and her nerves taught with worry. This was the underconfident, querulous Afarin, a far cry from her operational, professional persona. He had been busy [more…]

Fiction

Jinnie’s Story – Book Three, Chapter Twenty-Seven

10th July 2022 Going Postal 4162 Comments

The spotter touched Jinnie on the shoulder to signal the 8 minutes were up. She squeezed the trigger and through the sight saw the gunner collapse forward. Swinging a fraction to the left the assistant [more…]

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The Fall of Boris

8th July 2022 Tachybaptus 2602 Comments

All his life Boris had his eyes On winning that most glorious prize, The golden key to Number Ten, The greatest goal of powerful men. A chubby lad at a posh school, His one ambition [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

8th July 2022 Always Worth Saying 2179 Comments

Question Time 7th July 2022 The Panel: Dehenna Davison (Conservative) Bridget Phillipson (Labour) Tim Stanley (Daily Telegraph) Winston Marshall (Musician) Alastair Campbell (Former No10 Press Secretary) Venue: Barnsley Happy memories of Barnsley. Seriously. There are [more…]

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The Wickedest Man in History

7th July 2022 Going Postal 3850 Comments

This is my uncle John Alldridge’s article for the Manchester Evening News on the 10th anniversary of Hitler’s death on 30 April, 1945 – Jerry F By today it was clear the Reichswehr had had [more…]

20th Century

Stand in the Trench, Achilles*

6th July 2022 Roger Ackroyd 4400 Comments

Most of us, if asked, would be able to name a fair number of WW1 poets and writers without too much hesitation. Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves, Rupert Brooke, Isaac Rosenberg – [more…]

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Sailing my life away (II), part 3

5th July 2022 Ancient Mariner 4952 Comments

I have seen SB’s notice he is running short of articles again and have difficulty doing what I promised last time because I’m still on my land voyage by caravan. I don’t have all my [more…]

Journalism

Blue Line, Brown Wall

5th July 2022 Always Worth Saying 3338 Comments

Life in a Northern Town If this were the Whitechapel in the 1960s, retired dockers debating over pints of London Pride in the ‘Blind Beggar’ would glance nervously about while muttering under their breaths. Faces [more…]

America

The Two Wolves

4th July 2022 Going Postal 3197 Comments

This story is a bit of a fudge, but Bob is short of material, so it might get through.  Mustn’t let the perfect be the enemy of the adequate, after all… I’ve long had this [more…]

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