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Scenario: Fishy Tea

Aug 1, 2024Aug 3, 2024 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

The aim of Gangsta was to formulate your rapper name

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Scenario: Paris

Aug 1, 2024 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

'Martin was all in favour of naming newborns after the place they were born'

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Scenario: The Librarian

Jun 28, 2024 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

She sat all day in that old sandstone library reading and looking, looking and reading...

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Scenario: Fainting Goats

Jun 23, 2024 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Goats singer Sam jumped off stage, walked out of the building and down Hope Street towards the proddy cathedral...

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Scenario: Northern Soul

May 22, 2024May 22, 2024 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

When they first met Martin couldn't take his eyes off Heidi's left breast.

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Scenario: Escape

May 15, 2024May 19, 2024 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Martin and Heidi had a plan to escape talking to their respective parents on the telephone for any length of time.

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Fake-news grannies spread virus doom

Sep 29, 2020Sep 29, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

Research uncovers a sinister meme-seeding trend

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Diary snapshot: Traffic cones

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

Perhaps the cone was not following the boat, but following me

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Drabble: Accidental damage

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

She was hunched over the sink, head in hands

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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

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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"

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Drabble: Rattle & Hum

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

When a Chinook loiters over Cripplegate, we all wonder...

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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...

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Short Story: Terry Wogan Stole My Birthday

Aug 17, 2020Aug 18, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

‘I’d just reached a benchmark age, a moment never to be repeated. Double figures’

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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"

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Drabble: A Day Out In Broadstairs

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

She said it was Midsomer-sur-Mer

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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?

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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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Drabble: Dog-collared

Aug 1, 2020Aug 18, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

It was the smell… the mothball stench of the clergy that got to him

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