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I have 99 stories published in
8 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 109120 times
and 132 of my stories have been cherry picked.
338 of my 2,709 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 348 votes
Short stories published in these anthologies:
Cold Iron: 21st Century Ghost Stories (The Iron Press) http://www.ironpress.co.uk/books/coldiron.html (as Jane Ayrie);
Science Fiction for Survival (Valley Press) https://www.valleypressuk.com/book/119/science_fiction_for_survival (as Jane Roberts)
My stories
The Net Caster (Part Twenty-Two)
I began to laugh from fatigue, shock, grief, and an overriding terror of being locked down here in this cellar with a group of disparate and apparently ill-matched Bios.
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The Net Caster (Part Twenty-One)
'I've got nothing left to lose,' I told him. 'You haven't asked about your sister,' he said.
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The Net Caster (Part Twenty)
Face to face with the man I had been searching for, the man I grew up with, the man who betrayed me. The man who was either dead or had never existed.
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The Net Caster (Part Nineteen)
Living on my home world disturbs me. Spider webs disturb me though I've never seen a spider. We learn to live with disturbance, with always being disturbed
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The Net Caster (Part Eighteen)
Not all blight survivors survive intact. 'You kept me drugged for a week?'
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A wonderful rallying cry for
Posted on Sun, 26 Aug 2018
A wonderful rallying cry for those of us amongst the lower orders, and it's our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day! Please do share/retweet if you enjoy it too.
Read full commentPosted in Army of Poets
Lovely contribution to the IP
Posted on Mon, 20 Aug 2018
Lovely contribution to the IP. I like the way that 'ticking' at the end reflects 'metronomic' at the start. Very well thought out.
Read full commentPosted in Time Is Ticking
Another lovely minature of
Posted on Mon, 20 Aug 2018
Another lovely minature of life. These short poems are really working, Richard.
Read full commentPosted in I WAS BORN
The joy comes over very
Posted on Sat, 18 Aug 2018
The joy comes over very strongly, Richard. The simplest of things often provide the strongest of memories, and you have captured that well here.
Read full commentPosted in ONCE UPON
What trousers will Jed wear
Posted on Fri, 17 Aug 2018
What trousers will Jed wear with his yellow shirt?
Read full commentPosted in The counting horse problem
Thank you! That's something
Posted on Wed, 01 Aug 2018
Thank you! That's something very special, in this week. I'm not usually prone to the optimistic or uplifting, but remembering Well-Wisher's lovely, magical stories and poems made me determined to try and emulate some of his gentleness and...
Read full commentPosted in Round The Corner (Part One)
A tantalising glimpse of a
Posted on Wed, 01 Aug 2018
A tantalising glimpse of a wonder, and sometimes that's the best thing to have.
Read full commentPosted in I DREAMED ABOUT A GIRL
Hello! Welcome To ABC Tales.
Posted on Tue, 31 Jul 2018
Hello! Welcome To ABC Tales.
Lots of good stuff in this first chapter. Some of your descriptions are excellent - I got a real feeling of the snow and the power of the elements, and the stained glass with its mixture of hellish fire and...
Read full commentPosted in Survival on the Edge of the Night
The darting rhythm of this
Posted on Sun, 29 Jul 2018
The darting rhythm of this captures the bird's movement perfectly. A delightful read.
Read full commentPosted in LIFE IS SIMPLE
This is great. A convincing
Posted on Wed, 25 Jul 2018
This is great. A convincing fairytale set in an equally convincing real world. And for old Whovians like me,utterly irresistible.
Read full commentPosted in The Blue Box
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