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Stephen Nelson

Old and New Dreams – Part 14

Back home, daily life was lived in and around a youth centre called Terminal 1 at the bottom of Blantyre’s famous Logan Street. Rab lived…

Sep 10, 2019

Old and New Dreams – Part 14

Sep 10, 2019

Stephen Nelson

Old and New Dreams – Part 13

It didn’t take long to settle into an easier, more comfortable self-indulgence back home. I began to re-enact my late night dope reveries…

Sep 9, 2019

Old and New Dreams – Part 13

Sep 9, 2019

Stephen Nelson

Old and New Dreams – Part 12

Soon after returning from the festival, my father took a photograph of my sister and I in our back garden – she, young and beautiful, her…

Sep 8, 2019

Old and New Dreams – Part 12

Sep 8, 2019

Stephen Nelson

Old and New Dreams – Part 11 (Glastonbury)

The transition was made rather smoothly over the course of that particular summer, just short of my 20th birthday, and was sign posted by a…

Sep 7, 2019

Old and New Dreams – Part 11 (Glastonbury)

Sep 7, 2019

Stephen Nelson

Old and New Dreams – Part 10

Our tour began in Paris, where we encountered an elegance and sophistication unknown in the dark city streets of Glasgow. I was interested…

Sep 6, 2019

Old and New Dreams – Part 10

Sep 6, 2019

Stephen Nelson

Old and New Dreams – Part 9

My bid for independence and self-mastery had been firmly established and more or less accepted by my parents, and it was confirmed one…

Sep 5, 2019

Old and New Dreams – Part 9

Sep 5, 2019

Stephen Nelson

Old and New Dreams – Part 8

Meanwhile, back at ground level, I was thriving at High School, picking up prizes and excellent exam results without putting myself in the…

Sep 4, 2019

Old and New Dreams – Part 8

Sep 4, 2019

Stephen Nelson

Old and New Dreams – Part 7

The Blantyre Christian Fellowship went through various incarnations and a lively, rotating membership. From our home, it migrated to a…

Sep 3, 2019

Old and New Dreams – Part 7

Sep 3, 2019

Stephen Nelson

Old and New Dreams – Part 6

The influence of parents and peer groups on a child can often be contradictory, creating a sense of unease which generally, by adolescence…

Sep 2, 2019

Old and New Dreams – Part 6

Sep 2, 2019

Stephen Nelson

Old and New Dreams – Part 5

There was, in the early 1980s, in Blantyre, what many old-time Christians might call a “movement of God”. Something certainly swept through…

Sep 1, 2019

Old and New Dreams – Part 5

Sep 1, 2019

Stephen Nelson

Stephen Nelson

Writer, artist and musician. Interested in visual poetry and asemic writing. Currently writing a YA sci-fi/fantasy novel. Posting poetry & prose as memoir here.

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