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  1. The Plagiarist

    Eolwaen General Audience (pg) Short-short < 500 words Posted by author(s) The Plagiarist Plagiarism is alive and well, and it is the greatest literary art form ever known. It was extensively used long before writing was invented, after all that is what ...

    - 2024/03/04 - 7:11pm - 3 comments

  2. Pregnant with Six Daughters

    Pregnant with Six Daughters Life is a Bitch but sometimes it takes a long time for it to die. ...

    - 2024/03/14 - 1:17pm - 1 comment

  3. Battles of the Sexes

    Battles of the Sexes The estrangement between men and women that had been becoming a deeper and deeper divide for over a century became a matter of hate to many if not most. ...

    - 2024/04/18 - 8:53pm - 3 comments

  4. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 47 Increasing Independence

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 47 Increasing Independence “That story Angus prised out of her concerning that Landrace boar her grandfather gave her as a piglet when she was what? six or seven was priceless! And her mum’s reaction when her lurcher pup her dad ga ...

    - 2024/05/04 - 10:13pm - 2 comments

  5. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 48 Acquisitions Introductions and Interventions

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 48 Acquisitions Introductions and Interventions After interviewing three potential pharmacists Murray was beginning to lose hope. All three had been male and chauvinists, pigs to boot probably too, he’d said cynically to himself. H ...

    - 2024/05/04 - 10:20pm - 1 comment

  6. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 49 Needles Fell

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 49 Needles Fell You’ve only ever seen women like me power dress to do business. Then she waltzed in like a pretty little girl wearing that low cut flower print summer frock with a man who looked old enough to be her father and you ...

    - 2024/05/04 - 10:28pm - 3 comments

  7. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 50 Conversations in Both Sides of the Green Dragon

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 50 Conversations in Both Sides of the Green Dragon Aggie telt Anneliese, “Unattached women on the hunt make them all gey nervous. They need to have the illusion that they’re the ones that do the hunting, so don’t go letting the sid ...

    - 2024/05/04 - 10:42pm - 2 comments

  8. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 51 Coneys, Bees and Fish

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 51 Coneys, Bees and Fish Continued on from GOM 50 on a Saturday evening in the Green Dragon Inn taproom A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 51⅒ So Just Where is Bearthwaite? is included before the footnotes For any as don’t know a coney is an ...

    - 2024/05/05 - 5:35am - 1 comment

  9. Galafriëlla

    Galafriëlla Arbret law was quirky and it gave all the right to whatever medical procedures they wanted, providing of course that they could pay for them. What the law did not do was allow any privacy, so medical staff could legally take money for informin ...

    - 2024/05/06 - 3:16pm - 1 comment

  10. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 52 Political Analysis

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 52 Political Analysis Continued on from GOM 51 on a Saturday evening in the Green Dragon Inn taproom “Christ, Lads, Dave missed his calling as a green grocer he should have been a diplomat. He’d have all the middle east conflicts s ...

    - 2024/05/14 - 7:13pm - 1 comment

  11. The Silent Ghost

    The Silent Ghost Trygg was an irritation to many of his teachers. He wouldn’t engage with any he didn’t wish to, and because of the injunction against the Ed Psychs they were not able to discover what his ‘problems’ and ‘special educational needs’ were. I ...

    - 2024/05/16 - 4:32pm - 2 comments

  12. Lost and Found

    Lost and Found “At your age how do you avoid the social services and the schools people?” “Mostly by hanging with adults, like you. If they see me with a grown up they go to bother someone else. That woman over there is one of them. That’s why I decided t ...

    - 2024/05/16 - 4:47pm - 4 comments

  13. A Successful Family

    A Successful Family The possession of a small number of cows, pigs, sheep and goats in addition to ducks, hens and geese was to the older family members the currency by which they measured true wealth. That the hundreds of doves that lived in the centurie ...

    - 2024/05/19 - 11:44pm - 3 comments

  14. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 53 Deep Secrets

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 53 Deep Secrets Continued on from GOM 52 on a Saturday evening in the Green Dragon Inn taproom “Hang on a moment before you do, Pete. Jeremy, whilst we’re on about food, or at any rate stuff that sometimes passes for food, answer a ...

    - 2024/05/22 - 10:13pm - 4 comments