And what about the brothers? Do they have a place next to Uncle Wally? One of them, after all, is my father. Their outlines smudged by death and the passage of time. A lost tribe coming down from the hills to watch us as we puzzle our way onwards, lives that spanned the twentieth century,…
….Who might be the target? It depends on where Uncle Wally's lamplight falls, and who it finds blinking back, the beam emerging from between his eyes and slightly above, the head torch fitted to a standard miner's coal helmet, the same worn by men underground whether it is Sollihull or Silesia, Sanchow or Siberia. Othewise,…
You’ve got to keep the pressure up. Viagra of the mind? Pseudo potency – endless fabrication. Wanker, murmurs Uncle Wally. ‘What’s up, Wally, you sound dejected.’ ‘Nah,’ a guttural whisper. The practical joker has a glint in his eye. Those that know him tense, look around uneasy, not knowing where it might…
Categories (2024) are:
Different WORDSTALL Categories in the past supported the mainly experimental personal writing in posts. The previous list of Category headings was: Anti-gravity Surgery / Atelier / Catastrophe Games / Echo Effects / Exodus / Fundamental Perversions / Hitting the Potholes / Holy Fool-Hero / In Conversation / Old Men Traveling / On the Street / Out in the Wilderness / Over and Beyond / Tonite at the Coliseum. Some of these still persist or recur as Tag key-words.
The even earlier Category headings for the walkingtalkingwriting blog (2006-2012) have been forgotten, but can be explored if desired via the long tail of monthly posts for those years here.