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The Kelpies and The Falkirk Wheel
The Kelpies The Kelpies A few years ago I was driving up the M9 towards Dollar in Scotland, it was dark and raining and suddenly I nearly crashed the car when I saw two huge hundred-foot-high horses' heads to my left-hand side. I had to pull over. I am not sure if I tried to take a photograph but I was dumbfounded.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 6 days ago in Wander
My Time In Prison
A Little Background To My Sentence My Crime? I was made redundant around the turn of the millennium. I got a small redundancy payment and tried to get by on that but it didn’t last all that long as I had just bought a house and had a mortgage to pay so needed to find some way of keeping my head above the financial waterline. What was I going to do?
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 6 days ago in Confessions
Stop Complaining. Content Warning.
As a child, he was beaten and bullied. When he complained to his teachers and parents, he was told to stop moaning and grow up. The bullies were allowed to continue, so eventually he realised he would have to take things into his own hands, and a punch and a bully's broken nose was the action he took.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 7 days ago in Fiction
AI Generated Stories On Vocal? Seriously, What Is The Point?
Introduction When I see that a story is AI-generated it is a red flag to me, something to avoid. Today I have seen a lot on Vocal, and yes they are flagging themselves but seriously what is the point? I don't want to read something that someone couldn't be bothered to write.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 8 days ago in Critique
The Swan Queen
Introduction I love this painting shared by The Enchanted Booklet on Facebook here This is a freeform poem consisting of tercets with five-syllable lines, without deliberate rhymes. I was looking for a more formal construct, but this fell into place, and so I thought I would leave it as is.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 8 days ago in Poets
