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The Dreich. Top Story - April 2024.
Dreich is borrowed from Scots dreich (“hard to bear, dreary, tedious, wearisome; interminable, long-winded; dull, uninteresting; slow, tardy; doleful, gloomy; baffling, difficult; difficult to reach, inaccessible”), from Middle English dregh, dri, drie (“burdensome; depressing, dismal; large, tall; lasting, long; long-suffering, patient; tedious; of blows: hard, heavy; of the face: unchanging, unmoved; of a person: strong, valorous”)
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 2 years ago in Fiction
The Vocal Readers
Introduction Yesterday I got a new subscriber, a fellow Novocastrian (I am just by relocation, not by birth, by birth I am a Prestonian). I thin I may know her name, though she is probably a friend of a friend although her Vocal profile is fairly detailed (though not as detailed as mine which has all my social media IDs there)
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 2 years ago in Writers
There's Always Another Way. Content Warning.
Introduction This is a Seven Days In post from 2015, nine years back, about what I thought were anger issues. While many things annoy me I still don't get angry. In my workplaces the most anger I have seen has always been from men and was usually excused by "You know what they're like" or "But they're good at their job", for me neither is an excuse when the anger happens on a regular basis.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 2 years ago in Confessions
How I Write A Pantoum
Introduction I have to thank Vocal for introducing me to the pantoum as one of their tags in Poets. So what I will show you is how I actually create a pantoum, and then hopefully you will be able to try it yourself without too much trepidation and maybe a pantoum will then get a Top Story.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 2 years ago in Writers
