A home for

creeps & sickos

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I’m Lucy Belle Gable; Writer, Librarian, Mother to one skin dog (Verity) & one furr baby (Sweet Dee) living in the middle of fuck nowhere in the deep Waikato, North Island, New Zealand.

I write black comedy

short stories

& non-fiction

about love

history

anxiety

murder

& sometimes herpes

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Magnificent Facilities

Toilets I’ve rated!

Victorian Basin
geometric bathroom floor tiles
Johnson Brothers Hanley limited toilet

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You find a yellowed shoebox under your dead Grandmother’s bed; worn with love & constant use.

Beneath piles of old photos, you uncover a life you never knew she led; love letter’s demanding affection, trinkets, mementos, memories of panic, rampant anxiety, hints at possible murder, admissions of actual murder. 

Your memories of Nanna will never be the same.

This blog is that desiccated box; filled with stories to entertain, make you belly-laugh, feel a bit sick, & perhaps, after a while, quite yucky.

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