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I have 1193 stories published in
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My stories have been read 3023944 times
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1732 of my 15,836 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1771 votes
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short history of time
God bless king time death ruin of all pleasure and pain The wheel turns again desire begets a friend free in a long tramp ache to the cravings fire...
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Grimms2
Dad was better fun than an alarm clock. I used to watch him before I was old enough to get locked up in school. The light in my room was on the death...
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gallows
I’m a creature of the past Sometimes the present Things I will do with placards and posts Rarely, I’ll be me as a child will be - no history teacher...
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Grimms
Dad pushed the room door open. I hadn’t heard him, or the door going. I was sitting side saddle on my bed, one leg a comfortable numbness, bare feet...
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a stumbling block
All is grace All is despair When you are not there When you are there For god’s sake For our sake Where is he? Where he is I hear a voice I hold a...
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gritty and grimy, so he's a
Posted on Sat, 30 Nov 2019
gritty and grimy, so he's a cop, interesting. terriific wring. whose story is it, Gallacher or Crowe's? If it's Crowe's the descripton of him given (change of point of view) by Gallacher needs a bit of work and kinda jams the narrative.
Read full commentPosted in A Quality of inertia (WIP)
Word origin of 'vade mecum'
Posted on Tue, 26 Nov 2019
Word origin of 'vade mecum'
C17: from Latin, literally: go with me
I will walk with you a while in your writing. Alan Bennet's idea of reading as a hand held out which you grasp. Munch's scream is so popular because it allows for...
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Amen.
Posted on Fri, 22 Nov 2019
Amen.
Read full commentPosted in He Who is Sent
a little grace is poetry that
Posted on Sun, 17 Nov 2019
a little grace is poetry that stretches the soul of even hungry ghosts.
Read full commentPosted in Second thoughts
yep, I read this. I like the
Posted on Sun, 17 Nov 2019
yep, I read this. I like the idea of all that fighting over a simulacra. But it was really virtue they were fighting over. Something they couldn't possess. I guess there's a bit of the idea of ideal forms thrown in as well. My answer is longer...
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fireworks is big business,
Posted on Fri, 08 Nov 2019
fireworks is big business, but a shrinking business. I guess councils will opt out of having displays. What a waste of money?
Read full commentPosted in Pets And Fireworks.
I guess we all select books
Posted on Fri, 01 Nov 2019
I guess we all select books that we think has value. Our values differ. As do our tastes.
Read full commentPosted in Alien Opportunities Ch.1 : New Opportunities Part 3
It was elves. Elves were
Posted on Fri, 18 Oct 2019
It was elves. Elves were cheaper than robots are now. So they employed them instead of humans. Watch your tense. You tend to move from present to pass tense and back again. |No biggy, but keep an eye on it.
Read full commentPosted in Horn and Hardart Automat - (A day spent with my dad)
I guess we're all armoured by
Posted on Mon, 14 Oct 2019
I guess we're all armoured by indifference - unitl we're undone.
Read full commentPosted in Consulting the Runes
yes, I guess it's true we did
Posted on Sun, 13 Oct 2019
yes, I guess it's true we did test rats to death and they'd starve for their fix. I guess it's payback.
Read full commentPosted in Swiss Delight
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