Category: Kin and Consequenes
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Episode 95 – Silence Speaks Volumes (and None of It Is Good)…
Silence – The Bully’s Favorite Weapon… You know what wrecks my head sometimes? When people think that silence makes them smart, powerful, or mysterious. Let me tell you something: it doesn’t make you clever. It makes you controlling, childish, and just a little bit pathetic. Take Bully and Fanny, for example. They love to go…
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Episode 94 – Halfway to Nowhere…
Halfway to Nowhere, A Bully & Fanny Saga… (aka When You Don’t Answer Emails But You Whisper in the Hedgerows)… It’s been a month. An email sent, calm, clear, grown-up.The silence? Deafening. But wait… cue the whisper network. Suddenly, Bully appears in a neighbor’s driveway, tractor left idling like a dramatic pause. “We’re having so…
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Episode 92 – If Heff Could Talk…
If Heff Could Talk… Heff is fifteen now. Blind for just eight months, but wise beyond all his years.He was Mam’s dog first. Then he became Dad’s shadow. But truth be told, he’s always been mine. Even Dad used to say it: “Heff only has eyes for you, not that he needs them.” Now, those…
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Episode 91 – Promises, Plots, and the Great Fanny Farce…
You know, the older I become, the clearer it all gets. Hindsight really is a sarcastic little cow, sitting there with her cup of tea, smirking, going “Well, what did you expect, love?” I was thinking last night about those last few days when my mother was still with us. Fragile, fading, but still sharp…
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Episode 90 -The Parish Lotto Power Play…
The Parish Lotto Power Play: Another Classic Bully Move… You know, it’s funny the things that stick in your mind when you look back over the years. It’s not always the big, dramatic blow-ups. Sometimes it’s the petty little moves, the sneaky, underhanded jabs that tell you more about a person’s character than a lifetime…
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Episode 89 – The Captive Rebel and The Kingdom of Bullies…
Some of us are born to keep the peace.Some of us are born to challenge it. And the Kingdom of Bullies, oh, they love a good captive rebel. They love to wag their fingers, whisper behind backs, and punish the one person brave enough to name the game. You see, the Wound of the Captive…
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Episode 88 – Scrap Heaps and Swinging D*ks…
Scrap Heaps and Swinging D*ks: A Bully Tale… Did you ever notice how some people can’t leave well enough alone? Like, the world could be spinning happily on its axis, the birds chirping, the dogs wagging, and here comes Bully, striding in like a constipated sheriff in a one-horse town, ready to declare war on…
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Episode 87 – Bully Watch…
Bully Watch… When They Don’t Talk to You… But Talk About You… Ever notice how some people don’t actually speak to you, but have plenty to say about you? There’s a certain breed of drama farmer who thrives on indirect communication. They won’t call, won’t text, won’t answer your emails, but suddenly your neighbor knows…
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Episode 86 – Turf Wars…
Turf Wars: Post-Op and Preyed On… I came home to heal. He came to conquer. One week in the hospital. Surgery. Painkillers. IV drips. Kind strangers held my hand and helped me sit up. A near-death experience, and somehow… peace. I returned home tender, stitched, and craving only silence, a cuppa, and my turf stove.…
UNDER THE WILL... OVER THE DRAMA... 