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Submitted to Contest #43
Nineteen seventy six. The year bootboys ended and punk started. The year I first saw the Boomtown Rats playing in the basement of Moran’s Hotel. And the year I left school and got a fulltime job in a bar. I remember going for the interview. I waited in the bar next door which was owned by the same guy. A man of seventy played a reel on a fiddle while another pensioner danced a jig and no-one took a blind bit of notice. You’d be barred for life for the same action nowadays. Irish bars were great in nineteen seventy six. I was led ...
Submitted to Contest #41
ROSCOE She looked like a teddy bear. All golden fur. There was an instant attraction. She bit Johnner and I didn’t like Johnner all that much. He clattered her and threw her on the ground. Next she bit Easer. He kicked her. They all started kicking her. I picked her up, patted her on the head. She bit me. I slapped her head. She licked my hand. We were smitten. I brought her home hoping my family would let me keep her. Ma didn’t like puppies but this one was a...
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