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Drabble: Mutton Jeff

Aug 19, 2021Aug 19, 2021 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

The deaf one was irritating. He shouted a lot. That’s understandable, but he was also a braggart, so his shoutings were especially annoying. I’ve got a new phone, you know. Takes pictures. Brilliant quality. I got this case for it off the internet. The clasp is magnetic.  At the exhibition, Shouty was so shouty that … Continue reading Drabble: Mutton Jeff

Drabble: The Baby And The Bathwater

Nov 1, 2020Oct 31, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Ryan was the child-minder who got pissed

Drabble: Accidental damage

Sep 18, 2020Sep 18, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

She was hunched over the sink, head in hands

Drabble: Toddler Zombie Walk ends in tears

Sep 8, 2020Sep 8, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

He thought it would be a fun introduction to the complexities of death

Drabble: U2 not really all that bad

Sep 7, 2020Sep 7, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Then someone said U2 “romanticize the shiny side of an old coin”

Drabble: Rattle & Hum

Sep 6, 2020Sep 6, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

When a Chinook loiters over Cripplegate, we all wonder…

Drabble: US gun sales leap by 94%

Sep 3, 2020Sep 3, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

I wasn’t sure she’d say yes, but I asked anyway. That Saturday we took our weapons and headed outta town. Separate cars. All through that freaky pandemic Summer we kept 2m apart, faces covered with bandanas like they said, and enjoyed the great outdoors of our beautiful state. They said it was a recommended recreational … Continue reading Drabble: US gun sales leap by 94%

Drabble: Three songs, one story

Aug 30, 2020Aug 30, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Brian finally agreed he was in trouble when he started to believe Romeo, as Mark Knopfler reports, really did proposition Juliet with the words, “You and me, Babe, how about it? Further clues arrived. He’d grown obsessed by what Elton John saw in the Tiny Dancer’s “pirate smile”. And what Billy Joel sang when that … Continue reading Drabble: Three songs, one story

Drabble: All Stories Are Lies

Aug 28, 2020Aug 28, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

The story was real enough, a gem, but to tell it would be to lie

Drabble: Heaven’s Door Knocker

Aug 26, 2020Aug 26, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

He was a loner and she guessed Lockdown had been a bad time for them

Drabble: New Normal (Not)

Aug 22, 2020Aug 22, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

They see masks as a green light to do exactly as they did before…

Drabble: Bagman

Aug 22, 2020Aug 22, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Do you imagine yourself as a witness in a crime story?

Drabble: Trust me, I’m a search engine

Aug 21, 2020Aug 23, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Brian knew the engines were so clever they practically read your mind

Drabble: Flight 370

Aug 20, 2020Aug 20, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 8 Comments

They broke the news to the families by sms, which was heartless

Drabble: The Longest Lunch

Aug 19, 2020Aug 19, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

‘When half of his sandwich hit the shale slab she wanted to laugh’

Drabble: Springsteen album review

Aug 16, 2020Aug 17, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 3 Comments

Western Stars in 100 words

Drabble: Face Down In The Pond

Aug 16, 2020Aug 18, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

A dirty laugh echoed in the “cauldron of death”

Drabble: A Day Out In Broadstairs

Aug 15, 2020Aug 18, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

She said it was Midsomer-sur-Mer

Drabble: A Book And A Bad Name

Aug 14, 2020Aug 25, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

He scoured the other pages. Why did he nick her precious word book?

Drabble: Small Pond Life

Aug 12, 2020Aug 18, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Some of the fish got cut off, marooned in the small pond

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