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I have 1190 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2958269 times and 1218 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1717 of my 15,761 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1754 votes

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Jack O'Donnell

 

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Cherry

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...

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...

our once blue planet

Nature’s pulse. Temparture Rising. Unwell. Our oceans lost rainbow of falling tiny shells. Splicing and dicing latencies Something hidden now at sea...
Gold cherry

widdershins

You probably remember that story of the Virgin Mary turning up unexpectedly at her pal’s house, as she’s prone to do, and blurting out: ‘hi, you’re...
Cherry

Jimmy Savile and me

I was lying in bed when my mum rushed up the stairs, barged into my room, mouthed that it was Sir Jimmy Saville on the phone. I had to shoo her away...

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1717 of my comments have received 1754 Great Feedback votes

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thnaks for reading and

Posted on Mon, 26 Aug 2019

thnaks for reading and commenting. No grammatical errors? must be getting better. That's magic for me. 

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Posted in good tears and bad.

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we're all lost and found

Posted on Sun, 28 Jul 2019

we're all lost and found

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Posted in Salvage

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nothing like a bit of

Posted on Wed, 24 Jul 2019

nothing like a bit of existential angst. This world is meant to be a shadow of the next. Nostalgia is a bit like that. When we were young the world didn't glitter, but it seemed realer. Perhaps as we get older we live more inside our expectations...

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Posted in Of myths and monsters

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polygamy, seems like a

Posted on Mon, 01 Jul 2019

polygamy, seems like a popular choice. Fraud of a different kind. 

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Posted in Julia rest of chapter 3

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a very strange adventure, no

Posted on Fri, 21 Jun 2019

a very strange adventure, no doubt Beth will be back for more. 

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Posted in "A Timely Adventure" CHAPTER 1

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I like this, it could go on

Posted on Tue, 18 Jun 2019

I like this, it could go on and on and on. 

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Posted in Among the Audh

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The wise Europeans, which mow

Posted on Tue, 18 Jun 2019

The wise Europeans, which mow included Israel, China, Australasia and India, were the topmost of top dogs – as they always knew they would be.[now included] the future is in the East, China and India in particular. Afirica will bear the brunt of...

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Posted in KODO's Group

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shame does shut us up.

Posted on Mon, 03 Jun 2019

shame does shut us up. Bullies know the power of shame, shame. 

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Posted in Dark Rooms

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sometimes two people fit

Posted on Sun, 28 Apr 2019

sometimes two people fit together. I'm sorry there's a piece of you missing. 

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Posted in THE LAST DANCE

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I'm sure there's a writer's

Posted on Sun, 28 Apr 2019

I'm sure there's a writer's fetish site I'm a member of somewhere. 

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Posted in The Freedom to be Weird

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