Upon the brink of epiphany / stands the once cherished / emperor of youth now witness

You can’t get a signal for a mobile in my local Morrisons [...]

Bad timing it was. When we first met, drunk and falling. That didn’t seem good. You looked at me glassy-eyed but I saw hope in that reflection and d’you know something? I needed it badly.
I wanted to be more to you that night you shook me.
“Shag me”, you said.
That wasn’t going to happen [...]

Some years ago a group of wise men set forth on a rowing boat along the river of life

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Big John Galway drives a Triple Seven on an opencast coal site; three or four times the size of a lorry and basically an oversized dump truck. He’s six foot four or five and built like a brick shit house.
He swears a lot, although like most people who swear a lot, never [...]