Tag Archives: loneliness
People who need people
‘Wait a second, love,’ said the woman in front of me at the Co-op to the man who’d just paid for his shopping. ‘Let me put my shopping through on your loyalty card. I’ve lost mine, someone may as well … Continue reading
Posted in Thinking, or ranting, or both
Tagged Amazon, Co-op Food Stores, customers, drones, electronic tills, hospital, loneliness, mortuary, shopping, tobacco
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Three winters’ tales, of darkness and light
Part 3: And now, a time for dancing The small market town awakens to Christmas Eve. The longest night may have passed, but still the morning is late in arriving. Snow has fallen overnight, coating the footpaths with thin white … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, probably
Tagged Christmas Eve, dancers, fairies, forest folk, lights, loneliness, mist, pine trees, ribbons, snow
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On loneliness and ear-worms
Where do ear-worms live, do you suppose? An ear-worm farm? Fed on the wasted energy of YouTubers? Wherever it came from, it’s been about about three weeks since a big, fat, Gilbert O’Sullivan ear worm crawled into my internal sound … Continue reading
