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preserving time
When this pan's hot, usually it's dull- full of potatoes or lentils. Tonight, blackberry juice simmers fathomless and darkest purple as the pupil of...
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flotsam and jetsam
On the beach, among litter a herring gull fledgeling, dead beside a Happy Birthday balloon background : Soothed in vast freedom and insouciance of...
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jormungandr
Some things will never change. At Summer's height bright as a plastic butterfly, the Fair unpacks on the Prom.
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suddenly
Grey cloud-palm presses down crushed air trees still as puppets hanging from their strings waiting a hiss across fields...... becomes patter on...
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fallow
A sheet of tall stemmed notes, soft rushes, grow yellow-ochre, golden-green, and with brown flower rests rustling, make fresh glissando tides of...
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Congratulations! This is Poem
Posted on Sat, 11 Jul 2026
Congratulations! This is Poem of the Week!
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Congratulations! This is
Posted on Thu, 16 Jul 2026
Congratulations! This is Story of the Week!
Read full commentPosted in Amanderella and the Mystery of the Disappearing Vicar Chapter 3.
Jane Hyphen's wonderful
Posted on Thu, 16 Jul 2026
Jane Hyphen's wonderful letter to The Moon addresses so many issues; clear as the moonlight and brilliant, it is Pick of the Day! Please do share, if you can
Jane, please change the image if you want to. It is from here :
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You are amazing at female
Posted on Wed, 15 Jul 2026
You are amazing at female characters - I know you said you are drawing on memory for Mrs Gaffletter, but how you describe her is BRILLIANT. And Calizone, she is fabulous, too! Mrs Gaffletter's sister and Maudline are also wonderful, but I love...
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I heard on the radio about
Posted on Thu, 16 Jul 2026
I heard on the radio about Trump daughter taking over a beautiful bit of Albania - very glad the people were listened to! It seems more and more that money overcomes morals, so it is brilliant to learn when this doesn't happen :0)
Read full commentThat must...
Posted in Marta My Deer
That must be one of my
Posted on Wed, 15 Jul 2026
That must be one of my favourite photos of yours :0) Though you have another, where they are all in a line, which is fabulous, too - the expressions, it is so happy! This one, the composition is like a painting. Bruegel would be full of...
Read full commentPosted in The Dumplings of Count Tiškevičius
"a woman who refused to let
Posted on Sun, 12 Jul 2026
"a woman who refused to let hinges express themselves...
her hair pinned with the kind of accuracy usually reserved for cartographers"
Mrs Gaffletter would terrify me if I met her (being one of those to whom mud is copiously...
Read full commentPosted in Amanderella and the Mystery of the Disappearing Vicar Chapter 1.
Wonderful ending :0) I have
Posted on Fri, 10 Jul 2026
Wonderful ending :0) I have really enjoyed these stories, Thank You!
Read full commentPosted in The Less Miserables Lose the Park (3)
I like your idea of the crows
Posted on Fri, 10 Jul 2026
I like your idea of the crows not taking sides. From this part of your story, it seems they are like Maths teachers - the sum of Jezabel's life was not possible, so they had to correct it, and the tool they chose was your hero?
Ray...
Read full commentPosted in Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (28)
:0) Funny, and clever, too,
Posted on Thu, 09 Jul 2026
:0) Funny, and clever, too, how you have an old fashioned style with modern daftness, like it is John Dee looking into the future. I love the bit about black dogs and cool kitchen floors. Altogether brilliant poem!
There was helpful advice...
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