Archive for the ‘Stories’ Category
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A Walking Man
05 Sep 2023This old bloke, now in the latter half of his eighties, suffers, as do a number of his mates, from…
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Jazz Was My Religion
10 Apr 2023A Colston Willmott Story Pubs, which Bristol had in abundance, were the meeting places of my social order, and…
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Introduction to an Encore [Part Four of Four] (Toronto 1963-1966)
13 Jan 2020Coda Magazine was a labour of love, not only for the writers and photographers (some eventually going on to fame…
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Introduction to an Encore [Part Three of Four] (Toronto 1963-1966)
30 Dec 2019Forty years had passed since the roaring twenties, when Satchmo produced endless variations on a single melody, shaping jazz forever;…
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Introduction to an Encore [Part Two of Four] (Toronto 1963-1966)
09 Dec 2019Among all the bizarre entertainment were our favourite clubs. The Friars, a block south of the Brown Derby, is the…
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Introduction to an Encore [Part One of Four] (Toronto 1963-1966)
25 Nov 2019The lights in the living room are all turned up to maximum, combating the dismal greyness of the coastal winter,…
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Talkin’ To Myself [Part Two]
21 Sep 2019Monk picks the notes from the piano tentatively, as if it were a tune he once heard long ago and…
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Talkin’ to Meself (Part One)
06 Jul 2019It’s a while back, the summer of 2016 perhaps, when all my upper teeth are removed. They’ve had enough; years…
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Killing Floor • Lee Child
13 May 2019It would seem as though many of the discoveries in my long life have been through chance, serendipitous to use…
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A Vacation Destination
23 Aug 2017Hornby Island Memories The Ringside Autumn Leaves (3:20) I’m just filling time, browsing a tattered memory bank. As close as…