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Author: Cyclist Steph C's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I have had nothing but grief from Amazon/Kindle over publishing the latest book. What really grates is that it is entirely done by automated message. Their gripe is that ...
Steph C - 2022/01/21 - 10:22am - 8 comments
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...and we danced
Steph C's blog Author: Cyclist Blog About: Music / Songs / Singers Taxonomy upgrade extras: General Audience (pg) I started my 'career' here with a story about a painfully shy transwoman finding love and life in a festival at Shrewsbury. ...
Steph C - 2012/11/15 - 8:52pm - 9 comments
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A Great Loss to writing, humour and humanity
Author: Cyclist Steph C's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31858156 A true gentleman. As one of my friends posted elsewhere: "THIS WAY, SIR" ...
Steph C - 2015/03/15 - 11:15pm - 13 comments
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A Longer War
Author: Cyclist Organizational: Title Page Audience Rating: Mature Subjects (pg15) A Longer War by Cyclist “What’s this place, then?” Rodney tried to soften his words, but it was clearly hard for him as well. “Operation Goodwood, young man. See those f ...
Steph C - 2016/12/30 - 1:16pm
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A Longer War
Author: Cyclist Steph C's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Following superb work by Julia P I have just finished amending the formatted manuscript she provided (some other errors I had already seen, plus a couple of revisions, a ...
Steph C - 2017/07/19 - 5:17pm - 6 comments
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A Longer War 1
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction College / Twenties Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 1 We weren’t there in the first wave, thank god. We had sat offshore in an LCT for hours while things the size of an Austin 7 flew over our heads to burst inland, and I ...
Steph C - 2014/06/08 - 4:42pm - 7 comments
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A Longer War 10
roads in this little corner of Hell, and we shall use them. We already have flying columns en route for ...
Steph C - 2014/09/04 - 2:30am - 11 comments
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A Longer War 11
Cyclist CAUTION: Violence Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 11 Bob was away for a few hours the next morning, and when he came back he was dragging a kitbag. “Right, lads. There’s a lot been going on, so this is going to be a busy ...
Steph C - 2014/08/06 - 12:29pm - 14 comments
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A Longer War 12
Cyclist CAUTION: Violence Mature Subjects (pg15) College / Twenties Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 12 Life settled down after that. It was strange to find ourselves with a proper billet; stranger still to find that we had a servant, in the form of an unsmili ...
Steph C - 2014/09/04 - 9:38am - 11 comments
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A Longer War 13
Cyclist CAUTION: Violence Mature Subjects (pg15) College / Twenties Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 13 I did some reading after that, after they dragged him screaming into their private little world, and years later I found out more. Hoess was an odd mix, one ...
Steph C - 2014/08/18 - 1:51pm - 13 comments
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A Longer War 14
Cyclist CAUTION: Suicide Mature Subjects (pg15) Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 14 There was a court of inquiry in Colchester, a sort of inquest affair. They took each of us in turn, each of his mates, and gave us everything but the rubber truncheon. I assume ...
Steph C - 2014/09/07 - 9:42am - 6 comments
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A Longer War 15
Cyclist CAUTION: Suicide CAUTION: Violence Mature Subjects (pg15) Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 15 I opened the back door and stepped back two years. The smell was the same, but the colours seemed just a little more worn than I remembered. “Mam! I’m home!” ...
Steph C - 2014/09/07 - 10:16am - 7 comments
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A Longer War 16
Cyclist CAUTION: Suicide CAUTION: Violence Mature Subjects (pg15) Posted by author(s) PART TWO CHAPTER 16 “So, ladies and gentlemen, now that I have thoroughly ruined Ernie’s character, as is traditional, can we now do the other traditional thing and rais ...
Steph C - 2014/09/11 - 11:22am - 17 comments
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A Longer War 17
Cyclist CAUTION: Suicide Mature Subjects (pg15) Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 17 We were winding down a little bit as the little band Ernie’s dad had hired played some slower tunes, including a very slow waltz that got a lot of couples onto their feet and e ...
Steph C - 2014/09/17 - 12:37pm - 7 comments
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A Longer War 18
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction College / Twenties CAUTION Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 18 The Ouse was low and slow, murmuring past the moorings as I laid out my tools. Somewhere overhead a lark was singing away, and there was a splash near the far ...
Steph C - 2015/05/11 - 5:24pm - 5 comments
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A Longer War 19
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 19 I gave my hair a last quick comb, and buffed up the toe caps of my shoes on the backs of my trousers. Why had I bought flowers? They weren’t good ones, but they weren’t roses. Mam had said that ...
Steph C - 2014/10/21 - 12:40pm - 8 comments
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A Longer War 2
Cyclist CAUTION: Violence Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction College / Twenties Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 2 “Turret left! Range five hundred! Got him, Ginge?” “Aye…” The Cromwell rocked as the breech flew back. “Nice one, lad. You’ve got the eye for this, a ...
Steph C - 2014/07/12 - 12:58pm - 6 comments
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A Longer War 20
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 20 That night was the start of so much more than a ride in the back of a bread van. Once Tricia and I had broken the ice, it seemed as if her personality had expanded. The films we went to see in ...
Steph C - 2014/10/28 - 2:26pm - 8 comments
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A Longer War 21
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 21 I was in the bottom of some new-style cabin cruiser, trying to see if it was the seal around the shaft that was leaking or whether it was a warped hull, and I heard him call my name. “Hang on, ...
Steph C - 2014/11/04 - 5:54am - 10 comments
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A Longer War 22
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 22 “Come in, do! George, is there a problem?” “Sort of, sir. Chap here, Gerald, he’s come all the way down to ask a favour of you” “Beattie, may we please have some tea. Gentlemen, tea?” He led th ...
Steph C - 2014/11/22 - 1:54am - 7 comments