Tom Brad

Joined January 2021

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Raised in the UK by an Irish mother and Scouse father.

Now confined in France raising sheep.

Those who tell the stories rule society.

If a story I write makes you smile, laugh or cry I would be honoured if you shared it and passed it on..

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Clear And Present Danger
There is a phrase in life, a warning bestowed to us in history, legend and metaphor. Beware of Greeks bearing gifts. I am not entirely sure if it relates to my Personal Assistant Electra, but she is Greek and she is bearing a gift.
By Tom Brad4 years ago in Fiction
To Ring True
It is weird what we hold onto. It is strange what things we value and give importance to. I lost a ring yesterday.
By Tom Brad4 years ago in Confessions
Cortez the Killer
To people of a certain age, Cortez the Killer was a popular song written by Neil Young and released by his band Crazy Horse in 1975.
By Tom Brad4 years ago in Fiction
Aint Nuthin So Purty
“Sir, if you don’t mind. I mean you no mind and would rather you lowered the shotgun.” “No more drifters, turn around and gonna back the way you come.”
By Tom Brad5 years ago in Wander
The Drunken Bricklayer
Strange unwelcome letters containing mysteries and rabbit holes belong to the movies and television. They don’t belong to Jason’s morning.
By Tom Brad5 years ago in Fiction
The Scotch Egg
This post is part of the Vocal Cooks Collaborative. Click here for an index of all story-recipes. The previous post in this series is
By Tom Brad5 years ago in Feast
I Am A Bad Shepherd
I love winter. The angry wind. The snap of frost in the air. The numbing pain as the air bites into every piece of exposed skin. The raw wildness. I am a winter person. It is my favourite season. There is a beauty in the cold. A beauty in everything slowing down and sleeping for the season. A beauty in everything dying and going dormant. I do not tell people this but the reason why I love the winter is it represents how I feel. For three months the world looks like how I feel inside. There is lots of life in winter, but it is a desperate life. Life on the edge. Life scrambling to keep warm, scrambling to keep fed. The life that is not sleeping through this struggle, is a life that goes just day to day. Make it to the evening and then see what the next day holds. Then carry on again. I understand that. There is a beauty in that struggle. A beauty and a sadness.
By Tom Brad5 years ago in Fiction
The Hobo No-Go
Last night I dreamt of eating a cheeseburger. It was so large I could barely hold it in my hands. Served by a perfect white linen, iron pressed, Americana waitress. Arriving on a plate full of curly fries and onion rings; accompanied with an ice cold chocolate malt served in a steel cup. Sitting next to me in a diner full of glorious chrome and red and white checked tablecloths was my little brother Caleb, chomping on a humongous hot dog. These dreams pop up from time to time. It is strange because I have never ever eaten a cheese burger. I first dreamt of this before I even knew what a diner was.
By Tom Brad5 years ago in Fiction
Marlowe's Season
Marlowe with an e; was a strange boy with an even stranger name. Now, most people when they met Marlowe thought that he was introducing himself with his surname.
By Tom Brad5 years ago in Fiction
Burgers, Drinks and Salsa Music
“Hello baby girl how are you?” “Where’ve you been Kathryn? I’ve been trying to reach you all evening.” “Kathryn? I must be in trouble if you are using that name.”
By Tom Brad5 years ago in Filthy
Curved Bowls and Medicine for Melancholy
A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality? Stephen Hawking
By Tom Brad5 years ago in Confessions
TELL Tales
I have always had a passion to tell stories. Story telling is the heart of our culture. Plato told us Those who tell the stories rule society
By Tom Brad5 years ago in Journal

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Clear And Present Danger

To Ring True

Cortez the Killer

Aint Nuthin So Purty

The Drunken Bricklayer

The Scotch Egg

I Am A Bad Shepherd

The Hobo No-Go

Marlowe's Season

Burgers, Drinks and Salsa Music

Curved Bowls and Medicine for Melancholy

TELL Tales

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