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Nurikabe, the helper of humanity
I am Nurikabe, helper of humanity. Helper, in particular, by means of my playfully enlarged scrotum. [900 words 5 mins
Sep 10
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Ronald Turnbull
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A boulder and a boulderer
Brought out of the mountains by a glacier to become the only 17b boulder-climb in southern England [short story 1500 words 6 mins
Jul 23
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Ronald Turnbull
8
2
Incident in the Devil's Kitchen
A Cambridge man goes for a ramble around Cwm Idwal [1600 words, 8 mins
May 14
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Ronald Turnbull
21
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The Haunting of Climb B
Short story from my new ebook [very short, 1000 words 4 mins
Feb 26
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Ronald Turnbull
6
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Afterworlds
My new ebook of eschatological* short stories is now up on Amazon Kindle (*eschatology: the academic study of the afterlife)
Feb 12
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Ronald Turnbull
10
3
Jamie Dodd of the Muir
A story of the Southern Uplands [1600 words 7 mins
Dec 4, 2024
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Ronald Turnbull
11
10
Poison Wall
The Stinger. Climbing its Poison Wall is going to change his life. [Short story 1000 words 5 mins
Sep 25, 2024
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Ronald Turnbull
11
Down among the dolmens
A long-distance walker finds an unusual way of earning 40 Euros [Short story 1500 words - 6 mins
Jul 3, 2024
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Ronald Turnbull
9
4
The Cloud of Unknowing
Gerald Macdonaldson, youth group leader, finds his own mapreading leads him into confusion. [fiction: 1300 words, 5 min
May 1, 2024
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Ronald Turnbull
9
The Black Loch of the Beast
Short story about winter climbing in Scotland [2500 words, 12 min]
Feb 21, 2024
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Ronald Turnbull
5
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