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I have 135 stories published in 11 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 549496 times and 200 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1059 of my 4,596 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1152 votes

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Hello! I am an old crone who very much enjoys reading SF, urban fantasy and horror. I write all sorts, some of it SF, urban fantasy and horror, a lot of it not. Sometimes I can even be funny, so I'm told. My short stories have appeared in the anthologies 'Cold Iron: Ghost Stories from the 21st Century' (Iron Press) and 'Science Fiction For Survival: An Archive For Mars' (Valley Press), as well as in magazines ranging from the literary magazine 'Dreamcatcher' to 'Writing Magazine' and 'The People's Friend' (the latter definitely not SF, urban fantasy or horror). I do regular local spoken word events, and needless to say there is a novel on the go. My new website is currently under construction, and you are cordially invited to come and have a peep at the blogs and free stories there. You can even go mad and sign up for my newsletter! Plus the usual social media stuff. All details below. Thanks for dropping in! (Oh, the picture is of my highly critical personal editor.)

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My stories

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The Net Caster (Part Twenty-Three)

By airyfairy on Mon, 02 May 2016

I knew who she was. We all did. And every face was afraid.
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Castle Pillock 12

By airyfairy on Tue, 26 Apr 2016

Castle Pillock has run the London Marathon! Well, one of us has.
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Cherry

The Net Caster (Part Twenty-Two)

By airyfairy on Wed, 20 Apr 2016

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)

By airyfairy on Mon, 18 Apr 2016

'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)

By airyfairy on Fri, 15 Apr 2016

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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1059 of my comments have received 1152 Great Feedback votes

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Pick of the Day

Posted on Fri, 30 Aug 2024

Beautifully written and totally engrossing, this is our Facebook and X Pick of the Day. Please do share!

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I really enjoyed reading this

Posted on Wed, 21 Aug 2024

I really enjoyed reading this. There's that wistfulness as we think about people who once shared so much of our lives - and maybe wonder if they think about us? - and then the warmth of the friendship that has lasted years. The shorthand...

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Posted in Shorthand conversations

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This is lovely, Rhiannon. I

Posted on Wed, 21 Aug 2024

This is lovely, Rhiannon. I love looking at the clouds and seeing landscapes and castles and all sorts of animals. Unfortunately my desk is by the window so it's a real distraction when I'm meant to be working!

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Posted in Pareidolia

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I was enjoying this all the

Posted on Sat, 17 Aug 2024

I was enjoying this all the way through, and then your last line was so good. A lovely touch of humour, but also with a lot of thoughtfulness. I love it when the IP produces something as quirky and individual as this.

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Posted in Death where is your sting?

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Bulgaria certainly seems to

Posted on Sat, 17 Aug 2024

Bulgaria certainly seems to give you variety, what with the storms you had a little while ago, and a possibly gruelling winter ahead. I would be in that fridge pretty much 24/7 as I share Jenny's feelings about the heat! Here in the UK of course...

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Posted in No Country for Cold Men

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Great response to the IP,

Posted on Sun, 18 Aug 2024

Great response to the IP, Jenny. It's a special moment when we're allowed up close to another species. There's something reassuring in knowing that they are going about their own lives, and couldn't give a stuff what we're up to or whatever our...

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Posted in Caught In Charm Of What I See

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I love the whole concept of

Posted on Fri, 16 Aug 2024

I love the whole concept of this. Labels can help us to understand ourselves or others, but they can also just present us with another set of rules and parameters to conform to. Set the rainbow children free indeed. Anyone should be proud of that...

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Posted in Bleeding Rainbows

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We sang the song about the

Posted on Mon, 12 Aug 2024

We sang the song about the Raggle Taggle Gypsies when I was at school, and it always fascinated me. It was one of the first songs I sang to my son when he was a baby.

'For though now older I'll not age in mind...'

Exactly. Always...

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Posted in Playful Elven Folk

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Well done on this, Paul. You

Posted on Wed, 14 Aug 2024

Well done on this, Paul. You've captured so much of the creeping fear we all have of where the world might be heading. The unholy meeting of minds that was the Musk/Trump face to face would have been funny except for the knowledge that some...

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Posted in Leviathan

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Of course I clicked on the

Posted on Wed, 14 Aug 2024

Of course I clicked on the link. Ah, Oz. Them were - probably not - the days.

Hope you get your copy of the album ASAP!

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Posted in A hundred moments in autism - The Topless photo of Germaine Greer

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