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StoryShiny Things - A Ramble hudsonmoon86 years 2 months ago
StoryI only have eyes for you Coolhermit26 years 2 months ago
StoryBad Writing scottxxoo76 years 2 months ago
StoryPooky and The Philanderer Philip Sidney106 years 2 months ago
StoryIriecat lavadis176 years 2 months ago
StoryCrazy Diamond - the story begins... Jude O'Flynn186 years 2 months ago
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Storyhello goodbye Coolhermit36 years 2 months ago
StoryHungry For Cornwall skinner_jennifer186 years 2 months ago
StoryRamadan celticman186 years 2 months ago
Storyan unknown middle-aged woman Coolhermit46 years 2 months ago
Storylayers Di_Hard166 years 2 months ago
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StoryBoiled, Deep-fried, Steamed and Mashed LeiWar106 years 2 months ago
StoryThe Maulter: Part 4-Riddlebrook ArcaneEagle77666 years 2 months ago
Storynew dog for old celticman126 years 2 months ago
StoryThe Human Touch: Chapter One Sooz00666 years 2 months ago
StoryBee eaters onemorething96 years 2 months ago
StoryNineteen and the Mermaids ralph46 years 3 months ago
StoryThe Envy of Footprints Robert Craven66 years 3 months ago
StoryRather than trying to behave and not feel our rage or rather than using it to burn down every living thing in a hundred mile radius it is better to first ask rage to take a seat with us. mcmanaman26 years 3 months ago
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StoryTrue Stories (Part 1 of 2) rosaliekempthorne46 years 3 months ago
StoryTrue Stories (Part 2 or 2) rosaliekempthorne56 years 3 months ago
StoryI Can Never Say Sorry… drew4payne56 years 3 months ago

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My stories

Cherry

Breaking into Commercial Fiction

I've just got back from Loughborough Uni where I was attending the Writing Industries Conference. It was a great day.

Don Quixote

It would be difficult to write an amusing blog about mass suicide so I won’t even try.

Me and Mickie James Cover

This week I received the cover for ‘Me and Mickie James’. I was surprised. I was expecting a picture. Instead it is covered in writing, front and back. Also it’s black.

National Year of Reading 2008

This year is the National Year of Reading . (That’s reading as in reading books, not Reading as in the town outside London.

As If!

There was a quote at the end of the Start the Week podcast. Q. “Why are you not unhappy?" A.

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316 of my comments have received 343 Great Feedback votes

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Mouse trap and Hardy Boys

Posted on Tue, 14 Apr 2020

Mouse trap and Hardy Boys book. Loved them both. 
 

You could have him going around the whole town then you'd have a novel right there - like that book of micro stories of every passenger on a tube train. 
 

 

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I enjoyed reading this too

Posted on Sat, 11 Apr 2020

I enjoyed reading this too this morning. 

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Posted in The Village 5

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This beautiful story of

Posted on Sat, 11 Apr 2020

This beautiful story of finding common ground between species / beings is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day!  Please do share/retweet if you enjoy it too.  

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Posted in Home

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Agreed. A ray of hope. 

Posted on Wed, 08 Apr 2020

Agreed. A ray of hope. 

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Posted in I Tell Myself This When I Am Afraid

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Glisk and glassiness work so

Posted on Mon, 06 Apr 2020

Glisk and glassiness work so well together. 
 

As Thom Gunn said, One is always nearer by not keeping still. 

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Posted in Walking Away

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Love it. Congratulations. 

Posted on Sun, 22 Mar 2020

Love it. Congratulations. 

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Posted in Deimos

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The poem is sentimental in

Posted on Thu, 02 Apr 2020

The poem is sentimental in the best possible way. I love the move from whale to herring (and its sorrow) to us. It is comparable to Philip Pullman's way of describing death. We become dust, part of the atmosphere. Or here, of the sea. Wonderful...

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Posted in The Sea is Sentimental

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Another really brilliant

Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020

Another really brilliant first line - so unusual an image. And your poem fits perfectly with the picture. 

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Posted in Barn Owls

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Agree with the above and I

Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020

Agree with the above and I mentioned before that we live in strange times when what would have been fiction is now our reality. The clip I love too... the words all the more poignant than ever. Someone at work said to me yesterday that when all...

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Posted in Whispers

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I liked this - quickly sets

Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020

I liked this - quickly sets the scene, and I like the way it pans out with the phone call. Couple of tiny things. 'fuck you quickly' needs some punctuation. Because I just read it as 'fuck you quickly'. An exclamation mark after 'fuck'? ...

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