Bradene

66 years old, written for most of my life, though have never really been taught. All my work is instinctive and inspirational. I have been published widely. Managed to appear in every edition of the late and much lamented La Fenetre, also Voices From The Web and countless Forward press anthologies, plus Reach Mag' and the Dawn Treader and have a poem in Bluechrome's Review of Contempory Poets, which included a poem by ex-Poet Lauriate Andrew Motion. My first book of poetry and prose has just arrived but the official release date is 1st August. I am very excited about it, and this week 26/06/09 the icing on the cake, I won the red dress/park bench poetry prize with my poem 'Googling Earth'.

Right now, I have 257 stories in 8 collections on the site. My stories have been read 65316 times and 47 of my stories have been cherry picked

My Stories

Shame

Submitted on March 3, 2010 - 17:53 | 69 reads

The Key Ring

Submitted on March 2, 2010 - 14:08 | 62 reads

This Momentous Day

Submitted on March 1, 2010 - 12:54 | 78 reads

Where is Spring?

Submitted on February 27, 2010 - 13:03 | 184 reads

I've Lost Mine

Submitted on February 26, 2010 - 11:56 | 59 reads

First Desolation Then A Joyous return

Submitted on February 25, 2010 - 13:01 | 89 reads

Demise of Summer

Submitted on October 22, 2009 - 12:19 | 68 reads

October

Submitted on October 22, 2009 - 12:15 | 57 reads

Autumn’s Ghost

Submitted on October 22, 2009 - 12:09 | 64 reads

One Dark Night Long Ago... (A re-write)

Submitted on October 19, 2009 - 12:16 | 57 reads

A Triolet: A Scary Thought,

Submitted on October 9, 2009 - 09:38 | 94 reads

Between Two Bridges

Submitted on October 8, 2009 - 14:09 | 117 reads

Terror

Submitted on August 30, 2009 - 16:51 | 145 reads

Fear of Fear

Submitted on August 14, 2009 - 21:41 | 206 reads

Street Of Bones

Submitted on August 13, 2009 - 12:19 | 149 reads

Tilting At Windmills

Submitted on August 8, 2009 - 09:10 | 96 reads

Beautiful Bones

Submitted on August 7, 2009 - 17:11 | 189 reads

Struggling

Submitted on August 5, 2009 - 11:03 | 124 reads

Blue Glass and Bingo

Submitted on August 2, 2009 - 12:23 | 155 reads

Four Little Fibs

Submitted on July 19, 2009 - 15:21 | 162 reads

On Being Interrupted

Submitted on July 13, 2009 - 14:41 | 166 reads

A String Of Pearls

Submitted on July 9, 2009 - 16:57 | 116 reads

Our Mulberry Love

Submitted on July 4, 2009 - 12:45 | 129 reads

Echoes Of Guilt

Submitted on June 30, 2009 - 09:13 | 146 reads

Marilyn

Submitted on June 22, 2009 - 11:14 | 187 reads

Uncle Tom (The Re-write)

Submitted on June 20, 2009 - 10:42 | 194 reads

Millie's Story

Submitted on June 6, 2009 - 11:01 | 132 reads

Madness

Submitted on June 5, 2009 - 16:06 | 139 reads

The Natural Garden

Submitted on June 3, 2009 - 09:22 | 142 reads

Verity

Submitted on May 25, 2009 - 14:18 | 231 reads

The Great I Am

Submitted on May 24, 2009 - 09:48 | 156 reads

Googling Earth

Submitted on May 24, 2009 - 09:12 | 413 reads

Bankrupt

Submitted on May 21, 2009 - 16:47 | 156 reads

Invidia

Submitted on May 21, 2009 - 12:06 | 252 reads

Remembering Fountains Abbey

Submitted on May 13, 2009 - 16:03 | 215 reads

Boiled Fish

Submitted on May 11, 2009 - 09:20 | 205 reads

Bluegate Fields 1872

Submitted on May 9, 2009 - 13:12 | 205 reads

Meneire’s Disease

Submitted on May 7, 2009 - 13:03 | 259 reads

Moon Shadows

Submitted on May 7, 2009 - 09:59 | 180 reads

Time To Act My Age, Or Is It?

Submitted on May 5, 2009 - 12:55 | 174 reads

Past The Last Stitch

Submitted on May 3, 2009 - 12:40 | 400 reads

A Handy Journey

Submitted on April 26, 2009 - 13:11 | 161 reads

A wonderful Greeting

Submitted on April 24, 2009 - 08:48 | 183 reads

Honeymoon Hotel

Submitted on April 23, 2009 - 09:22 | 183 reads

Within These Walls

Submitted on April 22, 2009 - 08:32 | 210 reads

Harbinger Of Summer

Submitted on March 4, 2009 - 15:48 | 225 reads

Grubby Gert

Submitted on March 3, 2009 - 13:16 | 201 reads

A Fractured Verse For A Fractured Heart

Submitted on March 2, 2009 - 10:17 | 231 reads

The Swinging Tree

Submitted on February 25, 2009 - 14:04 | 181 reads

The Lie

Submitted on February 22, 2009 - 17:16 | 206 reads

Unfinished Journey

Submitted on February 21, 2009 - 19:18 | 209 reads

A Quartet of Triolet

Submitted on February 21, 2009 - 10:11 | 227 reads

Tomorrow Never Comes

Submitted on February 15, 2009 - 11:56 | 251 reads

One Last Time…

Submitted on February 13, 2009 - 11:02 | 251 reads

I Love You

Submitted on February 11, 2009 - 11:21 | 218 reads

The Traveller

Submitted on February 8, 2009 - 15:41 | 210 reads

It Gets Us All In The End

Submitted on February 7, 2009 - 14:50 | 269 reads

It's a Nothing

Submitted on February 6, 2009 - 14:54 | 228 reads

The Haunted Lanes Of Old Wigston

Submitted on February 5, 2009 - 11:08 | 227 reads

The Ash to The Oak (A Curtal Sonnet)

Submitted on February 4, 2009 - 17:44 | 278 reads

With Honest Eyes

Submitted on February 3, 2009 - 11:14 | 241 reads

My Mother's Husband

Submitted on February 2, 2009 - 18:02 | 280 reads

Twisted

Submitted on February 2, 2009 - 13:22 | 230 reads

Guardian Of The Home

Submitted on January 30, 2009 - 14:37 | 217 reads

Intricate Contingency

Submitted on January 29, 2009 - 17:58 | 220 reads

Intricate Kenning

Submitted on January 29, 2009 - 17:43 | 213 reads

The Reluctant Vagrant

Submitted on January 27, 2009 - 12:11 | 200 reads

Playback

Submitted on January 26, 2009 - 11:51 | 196 reads

The Spider

Submitted on January 23, 2009 - 10:28 | 259 reads

The Sinful Bite

Submitted on January 22, 2009 - 12:02 | 217 reads

Rio de Janeiro

Submitted on January 21, 2009 - 12:01 | 210 reads

Smiggy And Me

Submitted on January 21, 2009 - 10:19 | 211 reads

Where There is Life

Submitted on January 19, 2009 - 12:00 | 252 reads

And The Sun Shone Down

Submitted on January 19, 2009 - 11:46 | 220 reads

Dreams Of Kith And Kin

Submitted on January 17, 2009 - 15:36 | 224 reads

Treasure Trove

Submitted on January 16, 2009 - 18:04 | 228 reads

Monty

Submitted on January 15, 2009 - 13:39 | 218 reads

Walking In The Air

Submitted on January 15, 2009 - 10:59 | 222 reads

Silence

Submitted on January 14, 2009 - 12:28 | 258 reads

Why Am I Still Here?

Submitted on January 12, 2009 - 19:39 | 273 reads

No Going Back

Submitted on January 12, 2009 - 12:36 | 246 reads

Careless Words

Submitted on January 10, 2009 - 12:08 | 237 reads

It Doesn't Matter Which...

Submitted on January 10, 2009 - 10:26 | 233 reads

Coming With Age

Submitted on January 9, 2009 - 11:28 | 241 reads

The Retting Pond At West Runton

Submitted on January 8, 2009 - 16:06 | 260 reads

A New Dawn

Submitted on January 8, 2009 - 11:38 | 228 reads

4 Connecting Haiku

Submitted on January 7, 2009 - 15:02 | 244 reads

Futility

Submitted on January 7, 2009 - 11:22 | 244 reads

Sensing

Submitted on January 7, 2009 - 11:14 | 218 reads

Waiting In Line

Submitted on January 5, 2009 - 10:53 | 244 reads

No More Words

Submitted on January 4, 2009 - 13:30 | 234 reads

Oops!

Submitted on January 3, 2009 - 14:00 | 233 reads

Pastiche

Submitted on January 2, 2009 - 18:14 | 235 reads

Times They Are A Changing

Submitted on December 31, 2008 - 16:23 | 253 reads

The Proposal

Submitted on December 30, 2008 - 13:36 | 214 reads

First Time

Submitted on December 30, 2008 - 13:29 | 221 reads

To The Rescue!

Submitted on December 28, 2008 - 17:01 | 246 reads

Shall I Compare Thee

Submitted on December 27, 2008 - 16:32 | 292 reads

Hope Re-born

Submitted on December 26, 2008 - 13:44 | 250 reads

Bitter Sweet In January

Submitted on December 25, 2008 - 12:26 | 259 reads

Silent Is My Muse

Submitted on December 23, 2008 - 10:53 | 236 reads

Heartsease Winter

Submitted on December 20, 2008 - 13:56 | 308 reads

Oh Joy!

Submitted on December 19, 2008 - 16:43 | 240 reads

Time And My Drawers

Submitted on December 18, 2008 - 15:21 | 263 reads

dEVIL

Submitted on December 15, 2008 - 15:38 | 225 reads

Stolen

Submitted on December 14, 2008 - 15:09 | 253 reads

Gremlins

Submitted on December 13, 2008 - 18:13 | 261 reads

Food For A Thief

Submitted on December 13, 2008 - 10:55 | 253 reads

Who?...What?... Where?...

Submitted on December 13, 2008 - 10:38 | 259 reads

The weirdest Dream...

Submitted on December 12, 2008 - 13:09 | 232 reads

Flawed

Submitted on December 12, 2008 - 13:06 | 262 reads

Third Time Lucky

Submitted on December 11, 2008 - 13:49 | 265 reads

The Window Of Delight

Submitted on December 11, 2008 - 11:14 | 272 reads

Circa 1961

Submitted on December 10, 2008 - 09:37 | 232 reads

Turquoise Silk

Submitted on December 10, 2008 - 09:33 | 278 reads

The Merest Moment

Submitted on December 9, 2008 - 11:18 | 260 reads

The Rusty Nail

Submitted on December 9, 2008 - 10:54 | 309 reads

The Road To Barnsley

Submitted on December 8, 2008 - 17:43 | 254 reads

Death In the Afternoon

Submitted on December 7, 2008 - 10:17 | 226 reads

Grandmother

Submitted on December 6, 2008 - 11:57 | 261 reads

Patsy 1958

Submitted on December 6, 2008 - 11:51 | 221 reads

Childhood Terror

Submitted on December 5, 2008 - 10:51 | 240 reads

Last Lonely Corner

Submitted on December 5, 2008 - 10:16 | 265 reads

Rabbit Stew and Sister Elsie. Life in the San 1956

Submitted on December 4, 2008 - 11:11 | 280 reads

Summer in the San' 1956

Submitted on December 4, 2008 - 11:06 | 239 reads

The First Day In The TB Sanatorium 1956

Submitted on December 4, 2008 - 10:57 | 271 reads

Nowhere Land

Submitted on December 3, 2008 - 12:46 | 261 reads

He Wears Me!

Submitted on December 3, 2008 - 10:55 | 269 reads

Battle Scars

Submitted on December 3, 2008 - 10:45 | 233 reads

Fire/Warfest/Yielding

Submitted on December 2, 2008 - 11:33 | 245 reads

The Way They Were

Submitted on December 1, 2008 - 11:34 | 236 reads

Sands of Time

Submitted on December 1, 2008 - 10:11 | 279 reads

San Fairy Ann

Submitted on November 30, 2008 - 10:11 | 269 reads

Green Shoots Of Spring

Submitted on November 30, 2008 - 10:01 | 278 reads

One Evening Late Last Autumn

Submitted on November 29, 2008 - 16:02 | 251 reads

Lost

Submitted on November 29, 2008 - 11:42 | 253 reads

Wrong Headed

Submitted on November 28, 2008 - 12:28 | 262 reads

Pattern of My Life

Submitted on November 28, 2008 - 12:01 | 266 reads

Etcetera,Etcetera, Etcetera

Submitted on November 27, 2008 - 17:18 | 286 reads

Etude in F******Major

Submitted on November 27, 2008 - 17:08 | 259 reads

Life's Not Bottled

Submitted on November 26, 2008 - 16:59 | 258 reads

The Bitter, The Sweet.

Submitted on November 26, 2008 - 16:53 | 294 reads

Little Things

Submitted on November 25, 2008 - 11:12 | 259 reads

Shaking The Winter Blues

Submitted on November 25, 2008 - 10:47 | 263 reads

Attack

Submitted on November 24, 2008 - 14:37 | 282 reads

Absentee

Submitted on November 24, 2008 - 13:41 | 294 reads

Four Englynion

Submitted on November 23, 2008 - 11:26 | 253 reads

Leopard Spots

Submitted on November 23, 2008 - 11:09 | 244 reads

Commitment Cancelled!

Submitted on November 22, 2008 - 11:05 | 289 reads

The Gardener

Submitted on November 22, 2008 - 10:52 | 257 reads

Zeitgeist

Submitted on November 21, 2008 - 11:38 | 253 reads

The Waiting Game

Submitted on November 21, 2008 - 10:53 | 251 reads

Straying Footsteps

Submitted on November 20, 2008 - 13:45 | 260 reads

Electric Litter

Submitted on November 20, 2008 - 11:13 | 248 reads

Stone Cold

Submitted on November 20, 2008 - 11:03 | 242 reads

The Wedding Photograph

Submitted on November 19, 2008 - 11:14 | 262 reads

Fishing

Submitted on November 19, 2008 - 10:25 | 250 reads

High Summer

Submitted on November 18, 2008 - 10:49 | 259 reads

It

Submitted on November 18, 2008 - 10:41 | 297 reads

The Accident

Submitted on November 17, 2008 - 11:34 | 251 reads

Turn Worm Turn

Submitted on November 17, 2008 - 11:18 | 248 reads

Waste Of Space

Submitted on November 16, 2008 - 10:46 | 259 reads

Stolen Innocence

Submitted on November 16, 2008 - 10:27 | 264 reads

Lost

Submitted on November 14, 2008 - 10:48 | 262 reads

The Argument

Submitted on November 13, 2008 - 12:36 | 283 reads

Daughters Of Necessity

Submitted on November 12, 2008 - 10:42 | 306 reads

Last Wish

Submitted on November 12, 2008 - 10:16 | 261 reads

In The Trenches

Submitted on November 11, 2008 - 11:21 | 274 reads

Life, Not So Freely Chosen

Submitted on November 11, 2008 - 11:00 | 274 reads

Curious 'obby

Submitted on November 10, 2008 - 12:29 | 249 reads

Should’ve…But She Didn’t!

Submitted on November 10, 2008 - 12:06 | 262 reads

Interlocking Haiku of Truth

Submitted on November 9, 2008 - 12:07 | 293 reads

Awake At Dawn

Submitted on November 9, 2008 - 11:33 | 267 reads

Scales Of Injustice

Submitted on November 9, 2008 - 11:22 | 256 reads

The Party

Submitted on November 8, 2008 - 11:39 | 249 reads

Take Me home...

Submitted on November 7, 2008 - 18:14 | 247 reads

Winter Comes

Submitted on November 7, 2008 - 13:43 | 279 reads

Bugger Bognor

Submitted on November 7, 2008 - 12:14 | 300 reads

Retribution

Submitted on November 6, 2008 - 14:34 | 272 reads

The Fairy Of The Willow

Submitted on November 6, 2008 - 13:30 | 271 reads

Divine Inspiration

Submitted on November 6, 2008 - 12:41 | 286 reads

Walnut Whip

Submitted on November 5, 2008 - 12:40 | 380 reads

Sonnet To My Father

Submitted on November 5, 2008 - 11:19 | 385 reads

Oh Do Shut Up !

Submitted on November 4, 2008 - 19:09 | 317 reads

Numbers Up

Submitted on November 4, 2008 - 10:53 | 279 reads

Shana

Submitted on November 3, 2008 - 13:53 | 581 reads

A Garden To Die For

Submitted on November 3, 2008 - 11:02 | 267 reads

Discarded

Submitted on November 3, 2008 - 10:51 | 280 reads

An Absurd Nightmare

Submitted on November 2, 2008 - 10:30 | 277 reads

People Watching

Submitted on November 2, 2008 - 10:01 | 272 reads

When She Lived Inside Her Head

Submitted on November 1, 2008 - 12:09 | 297 reads

First Day

Submitted on November 1, 2008 - 10:04 | 249 reads

The Tear

Submitted on October 31, 2008 - 16:48 | 310 reads

To See The Devil Dance

Submitted on October 31, 2008 - 10:23 | 275 reads

Midnight Blue

Submitted on October 30, 2008 - 19:01 | 285 reads

Disobedience

Submitted on October 30, 2008 - 18:53 | 266 reads

Ink

Submitted on October 29, 2008 - 15:35 | 286 reads

Life’s Humourless Joke

Submitted on October 29, 2008 - 12:16 | 274 reads

The View Across the Street

Submitted on October 28, 2008 - 19:17 | 307 reads

My Sister The Cupid

Submitted on October 28, 2008 - 14:19 | 309 reads

End Game

Submitted on October 27, 2008 - 10:15 | 320 reads

Miss Eyre Refuses... Point Of Inspiration Limerick

Submitted on October 26, 2008 - 14:09 | 281 reads

Dreaming Of Dead People

Submitted on October 26, 2008 - 11:11 | 361 reads

Haute Couture

Submitted on October 26, 2008 - 10:56 | 281 reads

The Wimp of Mandalay

Submitted on October 25, 2008 - 14:27 | 293 reads

Inexplicable

Submitted on October 25, 2008 - 10:55 | 274 reads

Three Little Bites

Submitted on October 25, 2008 - 10:25 | 280 reads

House of Dreams

Submitted on October 24, 2008 - 13:34 | 271 reads

The Last Waltz

Submitted on October 24, 2008 - 09:13 | 301 reads

When The Music Stops

Submitted on October 23, 2008 - 13:45 | 297 reads

I Can Recall

Submitted on October 23, 2008 - 10:06 | 307 reads

I Thought I Heard You Calling

Submitted on October 22, 2008 - 10:29 | 306 reads

Battle Cry

Submitted on October 21, 2008 - 10:30 | 278 reads

Oasis

Submitted on October 21, 2008 - 08:57 | 303 reads

Awaking

Submitted on October 20, 2008 - 09:40 | 323 reads

A Green Burial

Submitted on October 19, 2008 - 09:25 | 317 reads

Restlessness

Submitted on October 18, 2008 - 16:15 | 324 reads

The Blank Page

Submitted on October 18, 2008 - 08:59 | 293 reads

Treacle Toffee

Submitted on October 17, 2008 - 09:48 | 409 reads

Creative Juices

Submitted on October 16, 2008 - 23:09 | 295 reads

Come into the Garden

Submitted on October 16, 2008 - 08:58 | 304 reads

Funny, Regret…

Submitted on October 15, 2008 - 08:53 | 360 reads

Night Out

Submitted on October 14, 2008 - 09:07 | 339 reads

The Fried Egg.

Submitted on October 13, 2008 - 10:43 | 304 reads

Then He Remembers

Submitted on October 12, 2008 - 09:44 | 314 reads

Litter In Waterworld

Submitted on October 11, 2008 - 09:17 | 335 reads

A Reflection

Submitted on October 11, 2008 - 09:05 | 292 reads

A Hint

Submitted on October 11, 2008 - 08:58 | 295 reads

Terror On The Top Deck

Submitted on October 10, 2008 - 11:20 | 292 reads

The Face Rains

Submitted on October 10, 2008 - 11:12 | 293 reads

Just Ain’t Cricket!

Submitted on October 10, 2008 - 11:07 | 325 reads

Jumping In The Rain

Submitted on October 9, 2008 - 10:34 | 303 reads

Faded Collection

Submitted on October 9, 2008 - 10:28 | 565 reads

Fear

Submitted on October 9, 2008 - 09:51 | 306 reads

Grandpa

Submitted on October 8, 2008 - 10:58 | 321 reads

Chain Reaction

Submitted on October 8, 2008 - 10:54 | 327 reads

One Afternoon

Submitted on October 8, 2008 - 10:48 | 291 reads

Three Than-Bauk

Submitted on October 7, 2008 - 11:22 | 345 reads

Kilby Bridge

Submitted on October 7, 2008 - 11:14 | 322 reads

Overload

Submitted on October 7, 2008 - 10:59 | 296 reads

Cause And Effect

Submitted on October 6, 2008 - 09:36 | 341 reads

White Girl

Submitted on October 6, 2008 - 09:28 | 314 reads

The Tricycle

Submitted on October 6, 2008 - 09:07 | 324 reads

Baba Yaga A Russian Sonnet

Submitted on October 5, 2008 - 18:19 | 337 reads

Mmmm

Submitted on October 5, 2008 - 18:12 | 304 reads

Satis Re-Visited

Submitted on October 5, 2008 - 17:57 | 308 reads

The Helicopter

Submitted on October 4, 2008 - 10:52 | 314 reads

The Last Time I Saw You

Submitted on October 4, 2008 - 10:45 | 351 reads

A Grand night Out

Submitted on October 4, 2008 - 10:18 | 314 reads

Animal Crackers

Submitted on October 3, 2008 - 09:22 | 345 reads

Mending A Memory

Submitted on October 3, 2008 - 09:15 | 327 reads

To see the Scotsman..

Submitted on October 3, 2008 - 09:10 | 311 reads

War Time Convenience

Submitted on October 2, 2008 - 09:54 | 332 reads

The Return

Submitted on October 2, 2008 - 09:07 | 312 reads

Lonely, Lonely.

Submitted on October 2, 2008 - 08:48 | 378 reads

The Rose Garden

Submitted on October 2, 2008 - 01:53 | 309 reads

Rage

Submitted on October 2, 2008 - 01:38 | 325 reads