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Tales written and told by me, illustrated by Darrell Swainston. Follow @30SecondTales on Instagram.

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Wisdom Teeth

Posted on March 26, 2020 by carltellstales

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Owl

Posted on March 5, 2020 by carltellstales

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Ages

Posted on February 25, 2020 by carltellstales

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Sunbathe

Posted on February 20, 2020 by carltellstales

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Raw

Posted on February 14, 2020 by carltellstales

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Thesaurus

Posted on January 29, 2020 by carltellstales

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Loud

Posted on January 23, 2020 by carltellstales

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Smiling

Posted on January 16, 2020 by carltellstales

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#10YearChallenge

Posted on January 9, 2020 by carltellstales

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Air Guitar

Posted on January 2, 2020 by carltellstales

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Stuff I done wrote

Cameo
Countryside sheep are fluffy footballs
I was gone
Ace
I’m my PJs
Size doesn’t matter
Upstairs
Reading poems to you while you’re nodding off on my chest
How can I help?
No more than five school children allowed in this Post Office at a time
No idea
Yoga For Cows by Liam McCormick
Best friends
Preference
Arms
Enjoy!
A seat in a cinema
Brighton on a Tuesday
One little hair
I Decided To Stop Therapy by Joe Dunthorne
Today I went for a walk
Flowers on good days
I just decided to take it easy
Ancient trust
We’d like to ask a few questions about your experience
Out of stock
The worst day of all time
Trick
Things strangers might say about me when I am the subject of people watching
Who would play you in the movie of your life?
A couple of hours ago
Head
Packing
Every word
If I could write lyrics like Ray Davies in the second verse of Autumn Almanac
Hard shoulders
A couple of weeks ago
Ride
It hasn’t really
All I could think about
Don’t waste it
Penned in
Desperate
The worst
Lemonade and gravy
A face that isn’t mine
Two friends and a dog called Pigs
New skin
Sparrows And Mortar by Rob Auton
A stupid butterfly flaps its stupid wings
F Drive
Thin reminder
Watch Tenet before time runs out
A killer look
Wipe Wipe Wipe Your Glasses by John Hegley
Things I think I remember from that room
On and on we go
Short back and lies
Theories on the origins of the name Carl
Stains
Like a duck
As dry as possible
The Huggers by Selima Hill
It’s everywhere
I watched the rain fall
And so we try
A chest the size of the universe sitting comfortably in my palm
Three
Outside
Unread
Your days are denser than Jack Bauer’s
Beard thinking
Dead pigeon
Gotta catch ’em all
Feel again
Taking our son on public transport for the first time
Fortune by Lorraine Mariner
Things I did today
A letter to the summer sun
Not many people know this
Something for you
Dear customer,
The effort of a million years
Come and have a go
Dustbin lids
Annoying
Charlene
Landing
Self sabotage
Reincarnation
We were
The taste of a tongue
Preference
Fired back to the universe
Potential metal band names based on my life
Bench
Things I’ve never done
You know that
The zipper on my spine
Right now
Let’s dance
Forgotten by the night
An instrumental Coldplay cover could save the world
Eyes for eyes
Nine months
Bonfire babysitter
Sixth sense
April at night
Things I’m trying to throw out
Blood type
Tonight Matthew
How many people would you have upset?
What are you thinking?
Thinking about future past thoughts
Wonder
Man scout
No one knows quite when
In Inception
Looking at the Scrabble board
Things my child might say about me
Five rows of teeth
Made of fingernails
Mmmmmm by Bo Burnham
Wind by Rob Auton
Rice by George Szirtes
Rock Hard by Mike Barfield
Darts by Oh Standfast
Wintering by Molly Naylor
Game night
Forty oneth
Lately
Cartoon
Thirty two degrees
The difference
Glenda by Mary Dickins
Acknowledgements
Garden pea
Forgetting to use sun cream despite being 33 and having other responsibilities
Pigeon feathers
Long sleeve skin
A doctor and a man talking
Six six six
Infant Innocence by A.E. Housman
Coming to life
Things I can see from where I’m sat right now
A poem that thinks it’s a dog
Milk and milk and milk
Same jeans
Sports day
Time

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