Monthly Archives: January 2018

The Incomplete Life Made Whole

Posted on January 29, 2018 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

I do not have a home: I have a place I sleep in adorned with photographs of my wife who died five years ago, before this place became a museum owned by fading memories. I will love her forever, we … Continue reading →

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My Wedding Day!

Posted on January 22, 2018 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

The clock beside me said 6:23am: digital and with unmoving hands, time  seemed to be standing still it seemed to me. At 2pm today I would become a married man and what was rising through me was raw unprocessed panic: … Continue reading →

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Repeating Memories

Posted on January 15, 2018 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

It must be thirty years and a marriage ago, when we were returning to my lodgings in a taxi following my birthday meal, when you folded yourself into my shoulder and looked up at me in a way which could … Continue reading →

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Reflective Gibberish

Posted on January 8, 2018 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

Sitting at the company’s New Year’s Eve party, I raise my glass and murmur the words “Absent friends” because, let’s face it, the people here are not my friends! Not that I would say that out loud, because those in … Continue reading →

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Discovering Martin Glubervitch

Posted on January 1, 2018 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

Sludging into that unfocussed area which was his middle fifties, sometime after the innocent optimism of youth had been expended on one or two false starts, career-wise, and with a failed marriage under his belt, Martin Glubervitch was struck by … Continue reading →

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