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Rich has been writing for thisisUll.com from it's launch in August 2003. His tremendous contributions vary widely from news and current affairs, poetry, humour, interviews, fiction and many articles. Rich's contributions are listed below.. No Sections:  14  No Items:  66 Art Gallery,Articles,Community Media,Current Affairs,Fiction,Going Down,News,Opinions,Places to Visit,Poetry,Sports,advertiser,drugs,humour Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, For the index by Author to all Riche's work Contributions click here.

Poetry - Super Escape
	By Rich Mills Inject the god that makes me whole. That's why I need a drug that hugs my soul. Brief clarity before dirty wind drags me all about. Mind now numb no longer able to dictate a verbal doubt. Perpetuate the cycle of drugs debt and depression. Quit today, stop tomorrow, take a life on Read more...

Poetry - "Chemical Love" and "Digit-ull Shitty"
	By Rich Mills I double dropped before I went in,   Being searched by the doorman put my head-in-a-spin. I pays me money and am through the door,   Head starts to bob, soon drawn to the dance-floor. Then through throbbing heart and a tribal beat,   Two pairs of dilated rolling eyes briefly meet. Read more...

Poetry - "Needle Whore" and "Divorce Number 2"
	By Rich Mills Down the corridor and through the door,    There lives nothing more than a needle whore. All his pathetic rock-star dreams,    Are slowly coming apart at the seams. With song lyrics full of false metaphor,    He's a one-man psychological war. Read more...

Poetry - A Spare Five Minutes
	By Rich Mills With a spare five minutes      I scribble these ramblings down. Between herding the kids      And taking over the world. I find a spare five minutes      It was just lying here on the ground. Read more...

News - Community Pioneers awards at the KC Stadium July 15th.By Rich Mills
	Hull's Pioneering Spirit Is Recognised By Rich Mills A balmy summer's evening, and hundreds of specially invited guests make their way to the new KC Stadium. A guest as part of the Hull Asylum Seekers Support Group contingent, I witnessed an evening of award giving and hearty backslapping. Read more...

Articles - Memories Of Pearson Park By Rich Mills
	By Rich Mills I love Pearson Park It's my Mecca, my place of pilgrimage where I worship the gods in their many forms. The Sun God is a favourite of many, and brings out the all kinds into the city park. A place so far removed from the stress of everyday city life, it could be anywhere! Pearson Park is a Read more...

Articles - HULL #1 - Hull gets flashed!
	By Rich Mills Instructions had gone out and it was all in the lap of the god's. The Hull Flash Crowd came out from behind their computer screens and faced the world and each other for the first time. The location was Victoria Square, the time 1:00pm, the act was the Hokey-Cokey. Read more...

Articles - If You Tolerate This, Your Children Will Be Next (How Hull helped the children of Spain.) By Rich Mills
	In May 1937 the Spanish liner Habana left Bilbao in Spain, on-board were 4,200 Basque children being brought to the safety of the UK. The Spanish Civil War had started on July 17th 1936, and the world stood by and watched in horror as innocents were slaughtered. Some however took it upon themselves to do something about the blood-shed. Read more...

Articles - Blood On The Streets, Blood On Our Hands By Rich Mills
	By Rich Mills This is an after thought, an addition to the previous piece. An after thought! That is a problem some of my friends are having at the moment. And somewhere out there in Hull, there are some people with thoughts of what they have done weighing heavily on their consciences, or so I hope. Read more...

Articles - Wilberforce Turning In His Grave... By Rich Mills
	(Diversity In The City Of Hull) By Rich Mills When I started thinking about this piece, I was originally just going to write about the evening out I had on Saturday (July 19th). I and others around me experienced the cultural diversity that Hull has to offer. A Zulu wedding, a Salsa Night in aid of Deaf Children, Déjà Vu at The Welly, my diverse bunch of mates. Read more...

Drugs - Hull Top 10 Drugs Hell?! by Rich Mills
	In an Observer article of Sunday 12th May 2002, Hull was described as "Britain's new drug capital". Another 'TOP 10' status for us not to be proud of! It sometimes feels like we should just give-up and walk away from this city that seems day-by-day to be going further down the toilet. So why do we bother, why do people like myself battle day-after-day to reverse this trend? Why do we go out on the streets putting our lives at risk for the sake of the apathetic masses that sit at home watching the TV, moaning about the state of the world outside? Read more...

Interviews - Brain from the Hull Flash Crowd
	By Rich Mills Rich: Alright Brain, so you've given up trying to take over the world every night with your side-kick Pinky, and have moved into organising Flash Crowds, or Flash Mobs as I understand they are also known? Read more...

Fiction - It's Like The Bloody Inquisition! By Rich Mills
	by Rich Mills He couldn't understand why someone would do such a thing! It definitely seemed however, that somewhere someone must have told someone else something about him. Something that wasn't really anyone else's concern. Then again interfering in the lives of others was a deeply annoying trait we were all guilt of. Read more...

Fiction - ICU@ABC By Rich Mills
	by Rich Mills During those pre-teen days of dramatic sexual awakenings, Roy always strived and usually achieved, a brief respite of self-indulgent escapism. By scraping together un-spent bus fares and school dinner money he'd often have enough to visit the local cinema most weeks. Read more...

Fiction - C(P)U On The Other Side
	by Rich Mills Roy carelessly tossed the apple core in the bin next to his computer. Constructed in a moment of sheer mindless boredom the waste-paper bin was an amalgam of newspaper strips and PVA glue, coated in a thick yellowing layer of varnish. Read more...

Fiction - Chants From The Graveside By Rich Mills
	by Rich Mills There is some old saying about 'idle hands' and doing the Devils work, or some such thing. The assumption then could be that 'idle words' spoken must be those of the Devil also. If in no more a way than an un-reasoned babble is nothing but a distracting noise. A siren song designed to send us off course. Read more...

Fiction - 100 Words Competition - The Graveyard Shift By Rich Mills

	The taxi office is beige with nicotine and age. Battling with the Sandman, my weapons of choice, cigarettes and coffee, dispensed from the whirring-gurgling coffee machine. Of things I've done for money this is the lowest. Six calls all night, only TV to numb the brain. Cups, and corners filled with cigarette butts. I wait for the dawn. Then my replacement comes on, Read more...

Fiction - 100 Words Competition - The 1st One Hundred Words Are The Hardest By Rich Mills

	He'd started that first sentence many times, deleting it and starting over again. The cursor blinked in the corner of the screen, taunting him, daring him to write something. He stared at, became hypnotized by it. Time ticked by, blink, blink, blink. His mind was just blank, blank, blank. Then in a sudden rush to fill the white expanse with black he started banging away at Read more...

Poetry - APATHY! By Rich Mills
	APATHY, APATHY, APATHY. APATHY, APATHY, APATHY. APATHY, APATHY, APATHY. APATHY, APATHY, APATHY. APATHY, APATHY, APATHY. APATHY, APATHY, APATHY. Read more...

Current Affairs - 18th March 2006 Stop The War protest in London - 16 page Photo gallery by Mo

	The protest organized by Stop The War Coalition and the Muslim Association of Britain attracted over 100,000 people and I was one of them. Along with 8 other good folk from Hull we had a great day despite being clamped. I'm posting all my photos and look forward to publishing your views of the event coming soon. Enjoy! Read more...

Fiction - Welcome To Hellville - Part 17 By Rich Mills
	29th November 2040 The information is coming thick and fast. The latest version of Arc-iSearch is a truly amazing piece of AI software. It sweeps across the huge net archives, sniffing out the smallest of references, eliminating the irrelevant with an intelligence that grows as it goes. I set it on its way yesterday, now it has started to Read more...

Fiction - Welcome To Hellville - Part 16 By Rich Mills
	"What music are you into, man?" The American exchange student who had earlier introduced himself, without any regard for Alan's need to be alone, suddenly threw a curve-ball of a question like this in his direction. "Well I listen to..." What followed was a definitive list of bands from Alan's wide-ranging rare vinyl and CD collection, he even Read more...

Fiction - Welcome To Hellville - Part 15 By Rich Mills
	They always cut it close but their timing was always impeccable, arriving at the house right on schedule. Schedule was a bad choice of word as they'd never been organised enough to have a schedule, let alone keep to one. Chaos was their maxim really. Everyone else thought that their apparent external serenity was one of infinite calm. However, this was Read more...

Articles - Made In Hull: Stories 1969 - 2005 Part 4 By Rich Mills

	Through the large glass double doors I could see a number of other residents. All were transfixed by the pretty flashing lights emanating from the box in the corner, but I knew they were all fully aware of Laura and I approaching. We stood for a moment watching the specimens through the glass, briefly examining their static behaviour as they gave nothing away except a sense of loss. Read more...

Fiction - Welcome To Hellville - Part 14 By Rich Mills
	Remember, remember the fifth of November. Alan smiled to himself, he felt she'd smile back. As with all days leading up to any Bonfire Night he could ever remember, the gods were restless. A storm in a D-cup had met her PR-effect match, and the media for mindless meat-eaters was polishing off the shit-dish, like the ginger tom who'd Read more...

Articles - Made In Hull: Stories 1969 - 2005 Part 3 By Rich Mills

	Waiting in A&E. Too much time spent sitting, waiting, hour upon hour. I wanted to get up and leave so many times, but I knew that I had to stay and keep waiting. For all our sakes! The intensity of the situation made my head ache, but I breathed through it and sunk my head into my hands, still waiting. Among the drawn-out periods of waiting there were breaks, Read more...

Fiction - Welcome To Hellville - Part 13 By Rich Mills
	From: "audioally" To: "Black Star" Subject: BASF C90 tape transcribed and identified Date: 28 Nov 2040 12:09:06 Hello there, Thanks for the opportunity to investigate the origins of the BASF C90 tape that you forwarded onto me. As I understand you found this in an open box with other items, it hasn't been too badly damaged by the elements and Read more...

Fiction - Welcome To Hellville - Part 12 By Rich Mills
	"Whoa, I think I'm gonna be sick." Alan spoke the words out loud for the captive audience of one. Days of wine and roaches had taken their toll, numb now becoming a commonplace emotional placebo in uninvited preferences to those of active and creative thought processes. Clearing his head while reviewing the short dopey ramblings he'd so Read more...

Places to Visit - Thailand By Rich Mills
	Expressing the experience of being here in Thailand is difficult to put into words. The sensorial experience is so mind blowing that you begin to feel overloaded. However it is the smallest of things that grab your attention, and stick in the mind. We are waiting for a taxi to take us down to the ferry, so that we can go over to the small island of Koh Maak. This is where we will get the full Read more...

Articles - Ten Foot Titans By Rich Mills

	Long summer Sundays when I was a kid were spent running around, plastic machine gun gripped tightly in my hands, throwing myself onto the hot concrete as imagined bullets flew overhead. Rat-a-tat, rat-a-tat. Andy came running full pelt down the ten-foot, Uzi tucked close to his side, spraying invisible hot lead along the side of Brown Owl's fence. Jamie bursts out of his back Read more...

Articles - Made In Hull: Stories 1969 - 2005 Part 2 By Rich Mills

	Much of the lower half of his face was carpeted with a dense mat of short-cropped wire. Stroking his hand across his chin, he evoked a long distant memory of adolescent profundity. Another's name floated into his mind, Pat, he'd always thought that was a girl's name, short for Patricia. However Pat was also the name of his former college lecturer, from when Read more...

Fiction - Welcome To Hellville - Part 11 By Rich Mills
	I don't know how to explain this, or if there is anything to explain. Something happened last night, but I'm not quite sure what it was, or what it means. If anything! All I can do is document it. I've been up a couple of nights, working, writing, digging through more of Alan's files. I fell asleep at some point I think, had this sharply vivid dream. Read more...

Articles - Made In Hull: Stories 1969 - 2005 Part 1 By Rich Mills

	A romper suit with plastic feet, dancing to the transistor radio placed high up on the kitchen shelf. We really did have a mouse that lived in the skirting-boards of the kitchen, didn't we? Lift the lid on the Danset, slap on the vinyl, drop the needle. Here comes the crackling sounds of my deep grooved and somewhat scratched Pinky and Perky LP, Jungle Book Read more...

Fiction - Welcome To Hellville - Part 10 By Rich Mills
	Full ashtray, dry mouth and thoughts connected with his inordinate hunger were momentarily sidetracked by a juggling jester, the sight of which threw him off the long-winded path he'd set out on. He picked himself up, dusted himself off and looked back from whence he came. Blocking his way, being directly in front of him, as usual stood Read more...

Articles, - The Drugs Box By Rich Mills

	The Drugs Box; I'd heard of these things, I'd even seen one once, but never had a chance to have a go on one. So when I got the chance to see one in action I jumped at it. As an ex Drugs Worker, particularly having worked with young people, one of these would have been invaluable. A fully interactive, touch screen, educational tool, ideal for use Read more...

Going Down - Make Poverty History Demonstration in Edinburgh 2nd July 2005 by Rich Mills
	Having been a political activist for many years now, when the Make Poverty History demonstration came around, we just had to do something about it. The result being that with a lot of work from Martin Deane collecting money in, we managed to send a hundred people up to Edinburgh for the day. Along with another hundred or so who made their own way up to Scotland, Hull was well represented. Read more...