Category Archives: morals

The Perfect Partner

Posted on August 3, 2020 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

It is said that when we seek a life-partner we look for what we want or desire but later, and often after the point of no return, we realise that what we have been drawn to is the familiar wrapped … Continue reading →

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One True Love

Posted on February 12, 2018 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

A lifetime ago, when I was still at school I met Maria, bookish like me, and awkward, and in her company I found a companionship I had not known before and in the end, under a tree in the local … Continue reading →

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An Unfortunate Discovery

Posted on August 23, 2017 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

I sat in the car with my wife and travelled up to the cemetery where I’d been buried not long before. She didn’t know I was there, of course, I was now the silent passenger, the observer, the helpless carer … Continue reading →

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Birth Of A Dating Agency

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

Rick Slider, whose boast to his mother was that he was always behaved honourably if there was no alternative, and that the only thing which made an act ‘appalling in the face of nature’ was its discovery by others, was … Continue reading →

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A Secret Grief

Posted on November 10, 2016 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

In these last days and hours before my final breath may I, Gordon Richard Carlson, lay my guilt and thoughts before you as a matter of conscience, if not regret, so that I might meet my maker free of worldly … Continue reading →

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A Sort Of Goodbye

Posted on July 6, 2016 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

You know that expression, “Live one day at a time:” well there comes a day for some of us, when we are living “One breath at a time”. That’s where Molly was at this moment; not all bad mind you: … Continue reading →

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The Non-Committal Scandal

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

There is an envelope with her final letter. There is a man to whom it was addressed. There is a world which does not seek his memories, or family to thank him for his time. Karen Black who took his … Continue reading →

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Yesterday’s Promise

Posted on November 20, 2015 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

Those early years: the morning coffees taken when the day was full of promise vanished in a fog created by that sense I was not to be relied upon or trusted by any life I touched. Those words you said … Continue reading →

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The Young Dictator,

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

I can remember Adolf Hitler or “Dolphi” as we called him, when I was “Alive” in the mortal sense; we were in the same class at school. We were about twelve I think: He was already a nutter, who used … Continue reading →

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