#chancers

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As per previous post – my head remains all over the place. I just discovered that I never posted yesterday’s mammoth piece! It’s done now, I hope. On another matter: I noticed a proliferation in new users. Their registrations bothered me, they appear to be not genuine – usernames not aligned with email addresses, junk box email addresses etc. I have blown them away. If you are a genuine reader…

like...

... that’s the entrance to the shower. It’s... narrower than the toilet? Interesting.

or this luxurious beauty of a “flat”

This is an attic. This is somebody’s attic. This is where your teenage kid lives for a few years when they want their own space. AND IT GETS WORSE

is that the kitchen back there, on... the landing?

haha jk it’s not a landing it’s a little pit, and you know the reason why the kitchen has to be in a pit is so you can actually stand up while you’re cooking because you sure as hell can’t do that in the rest of the place if you’re taller than 5′

the rent on that “flat” is €970 a month btw

In this poem I look at the issue of stereotypes and how it can and often does impact on our lives whether we realise it or not. I’ve given it the title Typecast, I hope you enjoy the read. Typecast Down the local giving it vocal minor celebrities act out their own play the joker the diva the underachiever all stick to the script they perform every day Characters Chancers Really bad…

Clegg attacks May’s Brexit team as ‘clueless chancers’ (well, HE should know…)

The former deputy prime minister said voters were beginning to believe Brexit is “all quite a lot of bother” as he launched a bitter attack on Theresa May’s Tory government plan to steer us through a divorce from the embattled European Union (EU). He claimed voters were promised a “pain-free Brexit” but will instead get a “nightmarishly complex one” led by David Davis, Boris Johnson and Michael…

When Susan Stellin asked Graham MacIndoe to shoot her author photo for an upcoming travel book, she barely knew him except for a few weekends with mutual friends at a summer house in Montauk. He was a gregarious, divorced Scotsman who had recently gotten sober; she was an independent New Yorker who decided to take a chance on a rough-around-the-edges guy. But their relationship was soon tested when Susan discovered that Graham still had a drug habit he was hiding.

From their harrowing portrayal of the ravages of addiction to the stunning chain of events that led to Graham’s arrest and imprisonment at Rikers Island, Chancers unfolds in alternating chapters that offer two perspectives on a relationship that ultimately endures against long odds. Susan follows Graham down the rabbit hole of the American criminal justice system, determined to keep him from becoming another casualty of the war on drugs. Graham gives a stark, riveting description of his slide from brownstone Brooklyn to a prison cell, his gut-wrenching efforts to get clean, and his fight to avoid getting exiled far away from his son and the life he built over twenty years.

Beautifully written, brutally honest, yet filled with suspense and hope, Chancers will resonate with anyone who has been touched by the heartache of addiction, the nightmare of incarceration, or the tough choice of leaving or staying with someone who is struggling on the road to recovery. By sharing their story, Susan and Graham show the value of talking about topics many of us are too scared to address.

Advance praise for Chancers

“Emotionally resonant and evenly structured, their tandem chronicle resists overly romanticizing their bittersweet interactions to focus on the dedication and devotion necessary to make their already-complicated relationship survive the fallout of critical hardships. An emotionally complex and intensely personal binary memoir of addiction and sustainable love.”—Kirkus Reviews