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  1. 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 ...

    - 2024/05/09 - 3:48pm - 1 comment

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  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 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. The Silent Ghost

    Eolwaen General Audience (pg) 500 < Short Story < 7500 words Child Preteen or Intermediate Teenage or High School College / Twenties Posted by author(s) The Silent Ghost Silent. That was the best word to describe Trygg as a child. At school the othe ...

    - 2024/02/16 - 1:11pm - 2 comments

  12. Lost and Found

    Eolwaen General Audience (pg) 500 < Short Story < 7500 words Child Mature / Thirty+ Fresh Start Posted by author(s) Lost and Found When Frank returned from the war he was suffering from PTSD and his wife had disappeared. His home was occupied by str ...

    - 2024/01/16 - 1:23pm - 4 comments

  13. The Cat is Out of the Bag

    Eolwaen General Audience (pg) Short-short < 500 words Transgender Teenage or High School College / Twenties Posted by author(s) The Cat is Out od the Bag The Cat is Out of the Bag Morpeth Evelyn McEuan was a hugely built blacksmith. His wife had died n ...

    - 2023/12/28 - 6:40pm - 2 comments

  14. Occulta puella

    Eolwaen General Audience (pg) Short-short < 500 words Transgender Senior / Sixty+ Posted by author(s) Occulta puella I spent last night crying which was not an unusual thing recently, yet I have to say it has become more and more commonplace as I age. ...

    - 2023/12/20 - 1:50pm - 2 comments

  15. All Changes yet Remains the Same

    Eolwaen General Audience (pg) 500 < Short Story < 7500 words Transgender College / Twenties Posted by author(s) All Changes yet Remains the Same I’m Hermione Clearwater and I’m about nineteen maybe twenty. I have an IQ that’s off the scale and a dro ...

    - 2023/12/06 - 7:03pm - 2 comments

  16. The Reality of Youtube

    Eolwaen General Audience (pg) 500 < Short Story < 7500 words Posted by author(s) The reality of Youtube Please click the box to prove you are not a robot. I don’t do any social media because I don’t see the point of engaging with what most folk cons ...

    - 2023/11/24 - 6:38am - 4 comments

  17. George Georgina Gina

    Eolwaen General Audience (pg) 500 < Short Story < 7500 words Child Teenage or High School Posted by author(s) George Georgina Gina The newcomer to the area who’d moved into one of the small apartment flats, many of which were shared by pairs of stud ...

    - 2023/11/07 - 10:56pm - 8 comments

  18. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 46 Bringing the Past into the Future in the Present

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 46 Bringing the Past into the Future in the Present This is for those few of you who are interested in the GOM. For the first time since writing GOM 01 I have nothing left in the ideas file. There is nothing with which I can even b ...

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

  19. Pronouns

    Eolwaen General Audience (pg) Short-short < 500 words Posted by author(s) “How’s the writing going, Sasha? You haven’t said much about it for a while.” “Funny you should ask, Denis. I’ve been doing a bit of pondering about and researching into how folk ...

    - 2023/10/24 - 12:54pm - 3 comments

  20. A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 45 Teachers and Tofu

    A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 45 Teachers and Tofu “However, we’d been talking for no more than ten minutes when I realised I was in way over my head. I’d already made my mind up about her. She is our kind of folk, and desperate to be seen as such, so I rang fo ...

    - 2024/05/04 - 9:51pm - 4 comments

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