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Embrace Hope and Be Happy - First Of All, Dump The Right Wing And Fascists
Introduction In July 2016, the spiteful imbeciles that call themselves the Tory party were six years into the destruction of the UK's economy and infrastructure and delivered a coup-de-grace by taking us out of the world largest trading bloc to pander to the racists, bullies, and tax avoiding cheats and the right wing media backed them up to the hilt. The USA got its first dose of Trump.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 7 months ago in The Swamp
Sirius
Introduction These are words aligning myself with the brightest star. The song is the gorgeous "By The Lights Of Cyrian" by David McWilliams, with lyrics that would not shame Bob Dylan or Dylan Thomas, because of the homophonic nature of Sirius and Cyrian.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 7 months ago in Poets
Our Mayfly Vocal Stories
Introduction I was spurred to write this because of what has happened to a couple of my stories, and I am not sure what the answer is to solve this. I have written in the past about getting what I call "The Creep", which is achieved by sharing with groups outside of Vocal and the Vocal Facebook Groups, and here are a couple of articles on the subject:
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 7 months ago in Writers
Progress
Introduction This is another excavation from my Seven Days In blog, and it does contain some interesting observations and concepts, so I thought I would share it with you. My blog is getting nearly ten thousand visits a day, that is a hell of a lot of robots, and no one ever buys anything through the links, even though they do use them:
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 7 months ago in 01
Metamorphosis. Content Warning.
You murdered me with your axe, and then you slowly skinned me and started to cut up my body into the thinnest of possible slices. You gave me no warning, and I saw the less precious parts of my anatomy smouldering on your open fire. That hurt a lot, but you were not finished. you then got out your tools and started to decorate my skin slivers with the blackest of your inks. Then you sewed the bits back together, bound them, and that's what I am now to the world. I was a tree. Now I am your book.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 7 months ago in Fiction
On A July Morning - A Mikeydred July Dollar Prompt For All Vocal Creators
Introduction Every month, I set prompts in the Vocal Social Society and offer a dollar tip to five random creators who take part in it and ask them to share their stories in the comments and on the thread in the group.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 7 months ago in Writers
