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I have 135 stories published in 11 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 550718 times and 200 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1063 of my 4,601 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1157 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

Cherry

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
Cherry

The Net Caster (Part Eighteen)

Not all blight survivors survive intact. 'You kept me drugged for a week?'
Gold cherry

Castle Pillock 11

Castle Pillock is in training.
Cherry

The Net Caster (Part Seventeen)

'What?' I said. 'You set me up for murder so you can offer me a job?'
Cherry

Castle Pillock 10

Hubs, and Pods and Sieves.

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1063 of my comments have received 1157 Great Feedback votes

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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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I thoroughly enjoyed this. I

Posted on Wed, 14 Aug 2024

I thoroughly enjoyed this. I feel like signing up for the next La Tomatina, as I'm sure those battle skills will indeed be useful. By chance, my dishwasher started blinking at me this morning, demanding sustenance. Between the cat and the...

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Posted in La Tomatino versus The Terminator

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Brilliant, Turlough. I could

Posted on Thu, 15 Aug 2024

Brilliant, Turlough. I could see, hear and smell him. Random conversations are some of the best experiences of life. The other day I was having a chat with the new cleaner for the communal areas of my block of flats, whom I'd never met before,...

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Posted in Benches & Hedges

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Very well said. I do hope the

Posted on Mon, 05 Aug 2024

Very well said. I do hope the winds will change soon.

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Posted in Boats

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Pick of the Day

Posted on Tue, 23 Jul 2024

This searing and beautifully constructed poem is our Facebook and X Pick of the Day.

Picture by Lorc, copyright free on Wikimedia Commons: https://commons....

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Posted in BREAK DOWN OF A BREAKDOWN

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Yes, do carry on! I really

Posted on Sun, 21 Jul 2024

Yes, do carry on! I really want to know what's happening.

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Posted in Tom's Secret

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Yes, no longer as picturesque

Posted on Sun, 21 Jul 2024

Yes, no longer as picturesque as you describe, Turlough, but I think they have tried to make efforts to clean it up. It still floods with great enthusiasm.

Lovely poem!

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Posted in Tang Hall Beck

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