Chasing the Dragon
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Chasing the Dragon

It didn’t happen like this. I know it didn’t. Yet this is how I always remember it.

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When my writing career didn’t explode as I wanted it to (that wouldn’t happen for another two years), I headed into Ramsgate town to see what work was available.

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BMX
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BMX

The BMX Warrior: Funny 1980s BMX Memories and Childhood Adventures. A humorous trip back to 1980s Britain, featuring BMX bikes, childhood crushes, schoolyard disasters, and the fantasy books that changed everything. TRIGGER WARNING: contains offensive language.

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Blockbuster
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Blockbuster

It’s a dark and rainy Friday night in Ramsgate sometime during September 2001 and I’m running the late shift at Blockbuster Video. I’m standing at the counter facing down a monster of a guy with a chin like an anvil who I just KNOW is going to be trouble. He is GLARING at me.

‘Say that again, mate?’

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Morris
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Morris

It’s the late 1980s and I’m sitting outside Woolworths on Ramsgate High Street watching a man dressed as a chicken taking on Morris, the lovable town drunk, in a fight over a Kazoo.

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