Stephen Thom

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Storythe way I leave Yutka96 years 3 months ago
StoryAngel celticman136 years 3 months ago
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Storyravensbruck 5 celticman66 years 4 months ago
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StoryAfter The Funeral (Part 2) Kilb5056 years 4 months ago
StoryAfter The Funeral (Part 1) Kilb5076 years 4 months ago
StoryThis Woman's World Paul Annon16 years 4 months ago
StoryCome With Me mcscraic46 years 4 months ago
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StoryThe grandmother penelopecreighton96 years 4 months ago
StoryPromises Beyond The Veil Of Light ( PT 18 ) skinner_jennifer106 years 5 months ago

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140 of my comments have received 145 Great Feedback votes

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stellar, transportive stuff,

Posted on Fri, 15 May 2015

stellar, transportive stuff, delicate and gorgeous. pointless to pick out parts as would be reprinting whole thing here but part. loved 'cradles him like a cello/having fed him a teaspoon of sin.' whisks you away and feeds the soul :-)

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Posted in A Room In Chungking

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lots to admire here, i part.

Posted on Tue, 26 May 2015

lots to admire here, i part. liked the stanza beginning 'You’ve flayed me once...' and its lovely/bruising final line, 'you bait me for catastrophe' as well as the aside 'you didn't hear'. rides a tense, bruised level of emotion but is also taut...

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Posted in Bitterness

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this is excellent, the series

Posted on Fri, 29 May 2015

this is excellent, the series of moments come together well. lovely writing throughout; 'from the high window I can view and not be viewed/crouched, crooning as she feeds sweet grass'. the passage of time is done well, fluid between the...

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Posted in Skin

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we are all our choices. loved

Posted on Wed, 27 May 2015

we are all our choices. loved this, v beautiful and layered, esp. last stanza 'trudging on.../with pockets full of pebbles' :-)

 

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Posted in Pockets full of pebbles

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hey i read these two yday,

Posted on Sun, 24 May 2015

hey i read these two yday, there's so much observance in your writing and the characters are so real. i find such real-life writing hard to do but your attention to detail demands investment and i found myself mentally taking notes to learn. the...

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Posted in Daisy and The Chalet Woman (Part Two)

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aw i enjoyed reading some of

Posted on Sun, 24 May 2015

aw i enjoyed reading some of your prose! this had lots of personality, a quiet sadness, liked the layered possibilities of a disappearance and return at such a time 'the day after the end of the world' and i liked little attentive touches like...

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Posted in They Called Him a Tramp. I Called Him Joe

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cracking, sparky stuff, loads

Posted on Sun, 17 May 2015

cracking, sparky stuff, loads of personality, much enjoyed reading. would like to read more. dialogue was excellent and part. liked 'After a lungful of piss-stink in the gents'. re: above ^ didnt think there was too many f words at all. great,...

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Posted in Belgium

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hey, this was great, v

Posted on Tue, 19 May 2015

hey, this was great, v transportive in thoughts and propulsion. love train settings and it played alongside the thoughts well. really enjoyed some of the original prose moments - the rush of 'I am half-cut, face-pressed-against-the-glass glad to...

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Posted in I Can Stop When I Want To

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very sad but very special

Posted on Wed, 04 Feb 2015

very sad but very special poem...appreciate the starkness, makes the keynote 'my heart was never strong enough-'  phrase and the ending all the more devastating...wonderful piece

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Posted in The other day

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 trill thrilled song..

Posted on Mon, 02 Feb 2015

 trill thrilled song...perfect three words. this is lovely, i love reading the poetry here, love that you can freeze these moments and stretch time this way and constantly reaffirm the wonder in the small things, and therefore everything...'makes...

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