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FIRST NIGHT of ALIEN
When Ridley Scott's 'Alien' first came to town

RASP
Written back when I used to get angry over small things

THE VISIBILITY
An anxious farmer attempts the perfect crime

JJ's NOTE
A puzzle story

FARENHEIT
Extract from a radio script

THE ACCORDION TEACHER
A memory from way back when

WINNING STREAK
TV review of Ireland's lottery gameshow

LONG DISTANCE
The same day every year. The anniversary of his death

BLESSED MARTIN AND THE FRIDGE
For Dear Lizzie RIP

N(OT) C(OMPETENT) T(ECHNICALLY)
That's my name

NIGHT OF THE FROGS
Weird, those frogs

DIGGING A HOLE FOR MYSELF
Nobody makes a fool of myself like me!

STIRRED NOT SHAKEN
Bloody Mary, anyone?

HORSE TO FRANCE
Slagging off an old butter advert

FLAT HEAD FISHING
Here fishy fishy

AN ELITE AMONG ALTAR BOYS
We were an Elite

PAUL'S TALENT
An Extract

THE CITY IS NOW BEHIND YOU THE MOUNTAINS IN FRONT
A Diary Entry

BAD WITH NAMES
So Bad

THE J-SEAT
(Radio)

The First Night of Alien and Other Stories says:
"Thanks for dropping by! I'm here most days so leave a comment if you like. I'm also at : http://kenarmstrong.blogspot.com" (18 weeks ago) me too!
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Fantastic

I thought these stories were fantastic. They may not have been what i usually read but they definatly caught my imagination so gripping. Only read a few of them though so i might have to start reading the rest. Keep up the good work
by Jack 28 weeks ago
LONG DISTANCE

This made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. At once haunting and emotional, a study of loss and the relationship between a father and son, with that love so rarely spoken of.

I read this at half past midnight, and I know it will stay with me as I try to fall asleep, and long after.

Great stuff, dude!
by Philip Laverty 37 weeks ago
Just because it's great.

I'm not intending this to be a particularly constructive or useful review - I just thought this was an excellent story. So it's not so much a review as a comment: I'm very impressed. ("Rasp".)
by Kluges Alek 37 weeks ago
Ha ha

I really liked this story, but it finished too quickly for me. Those green frogs had me really intrigued.
Please visit my author site and become a fan. Post a review about the opening chapter of my novel, between frogs.
Janine
by Janine Pulford 39 weeks ago
IRISH POETRY

IRISH POETRY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cnDS...
UNDER BEN BULBEN(EXCERPT) words BY W.B. YEATS
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=...

check it out
add me if ya want to
by Dwayne Sharkey 47 weeks ago
aliens!!!!

haha that was my little brother haha, neway have 5 stars but only cos ur tha man
by Ben E 49 weeks ago
Hi am rhys roberts

HI
by Rhys R 51 weeks ago
brilliant

Couldn't sotp laughing while reading this, brilliant, was just singing Michael Finnigan to my grandaughter yesterday or was it Patrick McGinty...lol and I am not Irish
janex
by Jane Dickie 52 weeks ago
About time too...

I've read all these before and always meant to leave a comment, so here it is.

Quick and funny snapshots of moments in time. Nicely written and good fun to read. Simple as that. Well done mate.

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The Waiting Line (Short Stories)
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by Chris Stewart 52 weeks ago
Great fun!

Just read Rasp.

The stories are very entertaining. I shall read more. (I've recently got to handle some replica guns (don't ask), and I wondered whether I should secretly borrow one to brandish at an opportune time. But the police would probably shoot me.)

I'll check back and work my way through the rest.

Jeff
by Jeff Hannan 55 weeks ago
 

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13 to 20 - links below
Since only the first twelve pieces can appear in the "Read Me" section, the links below goes straight to pieces 13-20 to save you having to click around too much.

13 STIRRED and SHAKEN
http://www.bebo.com/Chapters.jsp?Cha...

14 HORSE TO FRANCE
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15 FLAT HEAD FISHING
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16 AN ELITE AMONG ALTAR BOYS
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***NEW 17 PAUL'S TALENT (EXTRACT)
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***NEW 18 THE CITY IS NOW BEHIND YOU THE MOUNTAINS IN FRONT
http://www.bebo.com/Chapters.jsp?Cha...

***NEW 19 BAD WITH NAMES
http://www.bebo.com/Chapters.jsp?Cha...

*** NEW 20 THE J-SEAT (EXTRACT)
Please note that '***NEW' means 'New to Here' :)
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0 Comments 364 days ago
Literary Mania Book of the Week
Those nice people over at the Literary Mania page voted my page 'Book of the Week' as of 23rd September 2007 so thanks for that! Go check them out at:

http://www.bebo.com/literary-mania

Writing piece numbers 1, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16 and 19 are all attempts at humourous true stories designed for reading aloud on radio, specifically an Irish radio programme called 'Sunday Miscellany' most of these pieces have been on there, with me reading them out (you have to smile as you read, for some reason, which is fairly bloody difficult).

If you'd prefer a bit of regular fiction, try either pieces 2, 3, 4 or 8.

I do a lot of script writing (it's my main thing, really) but items 5 and now 20 are the only radio pieces I've put up here as yet. Number 17 - is the first theatre play extract.

Items 7 and 14 are TV review pieces, somewhat dated now I think.

Number 18 is a little extract from a diary i kept while on holiday in Deya (Majorca). I called it 'A Kick in the Balearics' but I was just trying to be smart really...

Want to hear a radio programme about last year's theatre play?

click here: http://www.rte.ie/arts/2006/1121/the...
and click on 'The Moon Cut Like a Sickle'. Play extracts, cast interviews *author interview* (wow) it's like a DVD extra without, um, the DVD.

This year's play is now in rehearsal for performance in Feb 2008. There's a short extract here:
http://homepage.eircom.net/~kfelix/m...

That's the story... let me know what you think, eh?

And thanks again for dropping by. Y'all come back now, y'hear? :)
0 Comments 392 days ago
Reading and Writing
Have a look, maybe leave a comment so that I know you've been.

It's kinda like getting a sticker on your lapel for a donation in the street. Then you don't get hassled again.

I do a fair bit of writing, mostly theatre plays, radio plays and film scripts.

There are extracts and things over on the old-fashioned homepage at:

http://homepage.eircom.net/~kfelix/

Write me a postcard, drop me a line. Like the man falling under the steam train, I will be chuffed to bits.
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Sigel book 1
Thanks for the advice seemed so obvious now you have pointed it out but i may not have noticed it. I also read your a couple of your storys and enjoyed JJ's note the most. I dont normally like first person storys but that one really got to me
28 weeks ago
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28 weeks ago
The First Night of Alien and Other Stories
Well, it wasn't *my* back garden. I had just got a job doing manual labour for a friendly builder and my mission was to dig a deep trial hole in the back garden to determine what lay beneath (so to speak).

As with most of these embarrassing stories it is, I fear, completely true. :)
29 weeks ago
Sally Rooney
Digging a Hole...

:L :L :L

But please let us know why you were digging such a hole in your back garden. I tried and failed to come up with a reason.

(And for a while I thought you were going to break into that guy's house.)
30 weeks ago
Richard Keaney
really love the majorca one and alite among altar boys:) have some luv for the great work!:D
32 weeks ago
Emma Long
thanks for mooching from me, enjoy the colin dexter book! :P
32 weeks ago
Phil
cheers for the comment......I'll see your cup of suger and raise you a chocolate biscuit lol
33 weeks ago
Plying the devil with gin....
Do not remove a thing Ken just make a new page and link it from your old one..it is an ass, but come on yer stuff is good and new people pop up all the time can't have them missing out can we. Ha ha sent this from my new page which will soon be growing I hope.Hugs janex have sum luv
34 weeks ago
Steve Owens
cheers
35 weeks ago
Philip Laverty
Exorcist 3 is fab. I'm a big William Peter Blatty fan! Have you seen The Ninth Configuration? Man, that'll blow your mind!
35 weeks ago
Kluges Alek
Hello there! Thankyou very much for the compliment and the link - I love Jacques Brel, are you a fan? :) I have a version of this video, but the one you sent is excellent!

xxxxx
37 weeks ago
Niamh O'Reilly
hey!!sorry for the long wait for a reply :D
about that film no country for old men; is that based on his trilogy??if so im reading the first one!very good so far!
38 weeks ago
Sally Rooney
Bad With Names:

I loved it! You are a born blogger-columnist-type-person. I do admit, however, that I had to Google Patrick McGinty. I am a terrible Irish person.

*hangs head in shame*
38 weeks ago
Sally Rooney
NCT

Just...

How...

Could...

Wow.

:L
38 weeks ago
Cruzza Da Crucian Rican
Ok u welcome and I promise u dat u will luv it:D
38 weeks ago
Cruzza Da Crucian Rican
Alien VS Predator Requiem was off da chain:D They shoulda make da fight between da Predator and da Hybrid a little longer though.
38 weeks ago
Laura Wyatt
Thanks for that :) Not given up writing, am just going back to a passion!! Still writing, although at the moment it's more essay formats but i reckon there'll be more on the go soon :)
How are you?
xxxx
38 weeks ago
 
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