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Robin's Art
Introduction I am not sure how I first became Facebook friends with Robin Grotjan, maybe it was through Mafia Wars, an addictive Facebook game that I managed to forget about. She had a joint acvount with her husband Ron who she lost to cancer but I was good friends with both of them, and am still in close contact with Robin.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Viva
Me And My Insecurity
Introduction I know I shouldn't feel like this but there is a part of me that wants to destroy everything I have that is good. Every time I get a Top STory on Vocal I am sure that they have just made a mistake and they didn't mean for one of my stories to slip through.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Confessions
- Top Story - January 2023
The Elemental SeasonsTop Story - January 2023
This is my first of two entries for the Vocal Quadru-Haiku Challenge which you can read about below. I have included "Four Seasons In One Day" by Crowded House to take in the four seasons in these Haiku (that or Haikus is the plural form).
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Poets
Rivendelliana
I wanted to write something to put a smile on the face of my Muse and her daughter, sort of drifting through Tolkienaria with magic and fairy lights. I don't know if this will work because I always doubt my ability to write and maybe that combined with the magic that my Muse gives me is the reason why I usually succeed.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Poets
When Everything Stopped Working
In Darkness Waiting for sunrise. I never expected to be in this position. There used to be civilization, however flawed it might have been, but now there is nothing. I’m here in this derelict hut on the side of a hill somewhere in what used to be known as the Lake District.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Fiction
The Wonderful Saw Doctors
Introduction I was first made aware of The Saw Doctors when my friend Mike O'Brien (CEO of Opencast and partner in Mog On The Tyne Cat Cafe) told me about the cover of the album "If This Is Rock And Roll, I Want My Old Job Back" which featured their dads on the front cover and the band on the back cover in identical poses. I was in Sunderland and bought a copy from Volume (another sadly missed record shop) and I completely loved it.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Beat
Artificial Intelligence Decides A Vocal Top Story
Introduction This a complete fiction but I sometimes wonder how artificial intelligence can be used to make objective decisions on certain things. Even as I write this piece of fiction draft using Google Docs there is a basic Artificial Intelligence running behind me, correcting my spelling, suggesting that my grammar is not correct and putting forward possible alternatives and sometimes getting it completely wrong. The intelligence doing that is called Grammarly and at times it can be really annoying but it is more than worth putting up with to help me produce something that is at least half way readable by my audience. There is also the Google Docs checker that also tries to put me right and between these two you might get something without too many spelling and grammatical mistakes.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Fiction
- Top Story - January 2023
Please RememberTop Story - January 2023
Introduction Many of our Vocal friends are going through hard times for one reason or another. Please don't forget them, they are still part of our community and they will come back to share their creations with us and we will be so happy to welcome them back with open arms.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Poets