Category: Personal
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Copy and Paste
The greatest public humiliation I experienced was at the hands of an ex-wife and her then boyfriend. But that didn’t prepare me for my greatest workplace humiliation (also known as the copy and paste incident). It occurred during a meeting. I was presenting the changes I had made to an intranet to a group of […]
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Letters to an artist : John Keats
John Keats! They made me read you and after Chaucer and Donne (who I ended up liking eventually), I wanted to refuse. I loved poetry having fallen in love with Milton’s, “On His Blindness” and John Masefield’s, “Sea Fever,” but even after having written poetry of my own, the reluctance was strong towards this one. […]
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Laughably Ever After
“Dr Twinkle?” “Speaking.” “Do you do weekend emergency out calls?” “Nope. Only weekdays. And only to the Kid’s hospital. Why?” “I need a doctor for a party.” “Have you tried datingdoctors.Com?” “A clown doctor,” I replied. “And how did you get my name?” she asked. “You tried clown ties on me. In the kid’s hospital […]
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The Last Line (Beth McMullen : Obstinate Little Tart)
“Excuse me.”I look up. I’m zero words into a five hundred word short story, which means…any interruption is perfectly welcome. “Do you know you look like David Marr?” I’m laughing now. At the woman waving her debit card. She was about to buy a coffee and has mistaken me. For David. Not David my twin […]
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The Last Line (Beth McMullen : Obstinate Little Tart)
“Excuse me.” I look up. I’m zero words into a five hundred word short story, so any interruption is perfectly welcome. “Do you know you look like David Marr?” I’m laughing now. At the woman waving her debit card. She was about to buy a coffee and has mistaken me. For David. Not David my […]
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The Last Melbourne Cup
Apparently Melbourne Cup 2018 is being soaked by heavy rains. Melbourne Cup 2017 for me was tear-soaked. That day, I was working at Westmead Childrens’ Hospital. I had bought my cup of coffee and walking back to my office when I noticed something odd. Police vehicles were pulling up at the entrance. Ambulance sirens and […]
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Three Coincidences Too Many
Buying my own stationery was the first of three Ill-fated training coincidences…
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The Feminist Card
“You know me… I either bring the best out of people or the worst…” A mere musing to myself. But a few weeks later, the remark returned to me. Adversely. Not only that but he played the feminist card. On me… This person had hurriedly and thoughtlessly implemented a change that had adversely affected many […]
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Bring Him Home
Do you remember the first time you heard a song? The song that each and every time afterwards… The question…and my answer… That night I had the TV all to myself. The children were asleep. She was asleep. I wasn’t going to disturb her that night. Just dust out on the couch till morning. I […]
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Candy Royalle
I saw Candy Royalle perform four times. The first was at the Friend in Hand in Glebe where she was co hosting an open mic night. She performed this amazing poem that together pinned me to the wall with its passion and left me short of breath with longing. http://CandyRoyalle.com Then I saw her at WestWords […]
Andrew James Whalan 