Category Archives: Romance

Loved And Not Loved

Posted on May 20, 2025 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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|She Was My Home

Posted on April 29, 2025 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

Away from the world of career strategy, while working in a Care Home, I found the doorway to a place of gentle resignation and understanding. I am drawn to explore and the lady I met there made that voyage kindly … Continue reading →

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Notes From The Wilderness

Posted on September 18, 2023 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

I have been loved but not totally, married, but not happily, qualified for professions I barely understood but in other ways I’ve drunk at life like a madman: walking the streets, connecting with strangers openly and reacting to the music … Continue reading →

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Love In Hindsight

Posted on January 30, 2023 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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A Choice Of Direction

Posted on November 21, 2022 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

You lived creatively letting art define your life, fearless in your every day, walking the path I should have walked if I had courage in my veins; but I was a percentage man, careful always not to fail. I talked … Continue reading →

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The Price Of Bread

Posted on November 7, 2022 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

I am a man holding onto a faith in the story of his own destiny, so like a salmon following its instincts, I attempt the waterfall of life because that is our duty I understand!Apart from working, I get through … Continue reading →

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The Perfect Break

Posted on September 26, 2022 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

You could call it a meeting of minds: a moment when two souls found in each other’s company that a complex world could become simple, but that was all it was and everything. It was a holiday romance, a trick … Continue reading →

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Maria

Posted on June 6, 2022 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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Impossible Dreams

Posted on May 9, 2022 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

Ever since I have been old enough to want more than go fishing, play football or become a musician of note, I have had a “Star from Afar:” some inexpressibly mysterious beauty whose progress across the silver screen captured my … Continue reading →

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Philosophical Discussions

Posted on April 12, 2022 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

“Life, to the interested, will always be interesting, regardless of your circumstances,” I tell myself as I work on the forecourt of my local petrol station, guiding customers to a fuelling booth or parking bay, depending on their purpose. Are … Continue reading →

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