Graham Bathgate

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2024

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“The Rock'n'Roll Doctor” by Graham Bathgate

Submitted to Contest #285

The Rock ’n’ Roll DoctorI remember well the visit to the doctor in the foreign land although it was over 20 years ago, etched on my memory because the doctor was, putting it mildly, quite a character. He was also a Rock’n’Roll afficionado which put us on a solid footing. I also remember that rightly or wrongly I decided not to tell him I was also a doctor, causing me to recall ruefully that it would have been easier if I had owned up to a similar background. But then it was the South of France and I didn’t wish to declare a contrast between ...

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“One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Yen” by Graham Bathgate

Submitted to Contest #276

“You should be in prison!” I told him straight, no regrets for the ill-will which he totally deserved. I knew I could condemn with impunity, as I was the President. He deserved incarceration for negligence! At the very least dismissal from the union. Gordon Gooding, the Treasurer of our English language school union … my Treasurer wasn’t complying with my demands for access to the financial records. Seized by the conviction he was botching the books, I deftly concluded that he was fleecing our teachers’ union fund.  As President of the...

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“The "Corpse"” by Graham Bathgate

Submitted to Contest #275

The “Corpse” The following is full of real events and people. Of course, a lot of it is wildly imagined, such as the kirk, the minister, the coffin and the remembrance service – some of this will be activated in future!   “Thank you, thank you, now please leave the lid off,” I said to the kirk minister, Mr McTaggart. His tiny rural kirk was in north-east Scotland in whose heathery hills I had run about as a child, very fitting for my farewell. He had kindly provided wobbly wooden steps for me to go up and drop down into the fine sh...

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Author bio

Born Scotland, left at age 22 for teaching in New Zealand at high school and polytechnic, then further education in Australia, then TESL work in Tokyo for 20 years. Set up Fine Line Press (Lyrical writing by new writers) in 2009.