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Another new morning in Deal. I haven’t checked the telephone, and I sure as hell haven’t switched on the TV with all that news. So I lie there and wonder if my lucky dip has won the Lottery, and I decide that it has. Until I find out otherwise. So I will buy that villa in Barbados and the flat in the city. And I can see the smiles on my pals’ faces as I hand them cheques for lots of money. No…

Christmas that year had been sad and disappointing. Sad, because it had been the first one without his mother, and disappointing because his cousin, Fred, in England had promised to ship a copy of the Sex Pistols’ Never Mind The Bollocks and it still hadn’t arrived. He’d have to hide it when arrived since his father had become real religious since his mother had been taken. His father had wanted…

You’ll make it, I know you will,You’ve come too far and now is not the time.If only you stopped and thought about it allThe walls you’ve climbed, all the troubles crossedAll the failures faced, all the little victoriesAnd one day soon you’ll make it acrossTo where you can start againI know you willYou’ve come too far, to stop.bobby stevenson 2023

There are those amongst us who slip into to this life like a well-worn glove, who very rarely question its strangeness and in most circumstances prefer to take everything that it offers. Then there are people like me, Michael Andrews, sometime author, sometimes happy but mostly otherwise confused. There are days when I intentionally tell myself I’m stupid so as not to think too much, so as not…

THE BEST OF ALL SUMMERS

Some things remain with you forever.When I was ten years old, my father took me on a trip in an old battered car and caravan, and although I didn’t know it at the time, my father was dying. He was only forty years of age and he was dying of a brain tumour.What can I tell you about me back then? That I was the only son of parents who never got around to marrying? That I lived with my two sisters…

THE ROOM WHERE ALL THE GOOD THINGS ARE

Martha had a room, one that she would refer to as a ‘spare room’. Not that the size of her house allowed for such extravagances – she had a kitchen, a little area to sit, a small toilet at the rear of her house, and a little bedroom upstairs. Next to that was Martha’s spare room.When she and Ted first got married, it had been kept ready for a little child. Ted told his wife that he ‘wanted’ two…

Tonight I saw a solar storm, Which brought the heavens to its knees, And seared the eyes and hearts of those who watched. I tasted nectar and ambrosia. And sat with kings and gods, And talked of words with Shakespeare. Tonight I flew with Orville Wright, And gasped, As air beneath us passed. Then ran across the Milky Way, And shouted at the stars. Tonight, I fought my enemy, At the…

YOU’RE OKAY

Stop confusing, abusing and using –The one that you see in the glassStop berating, deflating, and hating –That soul which you treat as an assStop telling and dwelling on matters that saddenStop blaming and shaming a heartMake it hardenStop knocking yourself to folks near and farStop saying you’re sorryFor the person you are.You’re okay. 😊bobby stevenson 2022