Tag Archives: confidence

Love Was Not Her Answer

Posted on January 7, 2016 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

 Her stare challenged everything in sight: late twenties and a practised controller of events, the answer to many situations lodged in her experience, she feared little but some aspects of emotion, and looked on those she knew as reference points. … Continue reading →

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A Brief Update On My Fitness Goals

Posted on June 2, 2015 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

Ok, I don’t really have any, but that doesn’t stop me measuring so I can see how every thing is going wrong over a bottle or two of Malbec or Pino Grigio if the weather is too warm. As recently … Continue reading →

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A Life-Changing Meeting With Dr Odd

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

I lived in the age of social engagement where we chatted on Blogs and even smiled at dentists before they drilled holes in our teeth: a celebration of biological generosity, spreading our DNA to the four corners of the surgery.  “Being open … Continue reading →

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Hope By The Glass

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

So I’m talking to my friend Greg.  Him for whom each new girl was, “Real ” at least for a weekend, although most weekends for him were spent taking a rest from life and romance, until he met his wife Sandra,that is, when the clouds … Continue reading →

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Near The Real World

Posted on February 6, 2015 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

Characters on the silver screen, living their unlikely lives, seemed more real to him than ordinary folk, clinging to unsought routines. No different to the rest of us, he would sit silently nodding his head in some complex out of town, willing the changing … Continue reading →

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The Narcissist

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

He always opened doors for ladies. and thanked you if you made him tea: in all the facile worlds he entered, he defined life’s mannered courtesies, but something in his bearing told you his instincts were all predatory. He swam through life’s corralled … Continue reading →

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What You Want I Am

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

The single truth which fed and clothed her every day since dropping out of university to embrace her new calling was to do with men. Inspired by the welcome and then depressing attentions of her classics professor, she realised she could earn … Continue reading →

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Technical Interface And The Older Brain

Posted on January 15, 2015 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

My brain is largely empty, because I have always disliked clutter, and I sieve changes in the world using a complex set of reflexes commonly known as “Lack of Interest.”  Never the less, on regular occasions we enjoy the company of my … Continue reading →

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A Siren Offers Drinks In Hell

Posted on December 15, 2014 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

You would love her if she wished, but not for an eternity. Anger was her closest friend, and nothing bored her more, she cried, than “Weak kneed praise from slack jawed men.” Unstable at the best of times, she could act … Continue reading →

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The Secret of A Long Life By Sedgemoor Longridge

Posted on December 4, 2014 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

“Sedgy” as he was known to his friends, most of them having died of course, him being ninety one, was holding forth to his son on his invigorating approach to “Living.” “Well, the first fifteen or sixteen years, as you know, are … Continue reading →

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