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I have 117 stories published in
10 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 90934 times
and 66 of my stories have been cherry picked.
Hazel McSporran
My collections
My stories
The Shampoo Haiku
In order to save the planet, certain shampoo manufacturers have started packaging in hard bottles. I don’t know the composition exactly, half bamboo...
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- 8 reads
Le Merle Noir
In ‘Bird by Bird’, Anne Lamott mentions someone called Wallace Stevens. I had to Google in order to get the joke. He was a poet who worked in...
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- 102 reads
The Nature of Feelings
The grass was still glistening with dew in the walled garden. I was early. It’s a Boomer thing. Plus, you must allow for stuck-behind-a-tractor...
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- 74 reads
Informed Rituals
I should have known from the psychedelic colours in the gorse that a migraine was coming. I haven’t had a migraine in years, so didn’t twig. I...
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- 97 reads
We Are Where We Are, and All is Well
Today was a blue-green yellow day. The north wind whipped itself back to Svalbard and had left us in deep hush. I have a favourite writing exercise;...
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- 225 reads