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I have 129 stories published in
11 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 271647 times
and 183 of my stories have been cherry picked.
729 of my 3,981 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 775 votes
Assorted writers' groups, the odd anthology, occasional readings. Lots of looking out of the window. Hello, and thanks for dropping by.
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My stories
Daisy and The Chalet Woman (Part One)
I am really struggling with this one. I've got two thirds of the way through and I now have about three endings, all entirely different, and I can't decide. I don't even know what genre to put it in. Depends on the ending...
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A Pillock's Castle (2)
Some day my plumber will come.
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I Wish I Might (IP)
I'll try not to wish. I'll try.
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A Pillock's Castle
First find your stopcock
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I think competitions are a
Posted on Mon, 15 Feb 2021
I think competitions are a good way of sharpening your focus and keeping to a word limit. I find it difficult to stop waffling in my stories, so it's a helpful discipline for me. And then when I get nowhere, I can reassure myself I'm only doing...
Read full commentPosted in The Banquet (Competition entry max 1,000 words)
I have no idea how you keep
Posted on Sun, 14 Feb 2021
I have no idea how you keep coming up with these marvellous pieces, each one enriching and heartbreaking. Wonderful image of the dwarf planets. A beautiful thing.
Read full commentPosted in The Opposite of Love
Very beautiful and, as others
Posted on Thu, 11 Feb 2021
Very beautiful and, as others have said, complex and rewarding many repeated reads. Such a worthy POD and POW! Your poems are always so enriching.
Read full commentPosted in After the Blizzard
If Boris Johnson isn't
Posted on Thu, 11 Feb 2021
If Boris Johnson isn't evidence of a conspiracy by someone somewhere to screw us all over, I don't know what is.
Thanks for reading, celtic!
Read full commentPosted in Pad Life 14: The Joy of Jabbing
Magic in so many ways, Rachel
Posted on Thu, 11 Feb 2021
Magic in so many ways, Rachel.
'I don't know where home is - it is not in the lexicon of those in perpetual motion' - such a wonderful, resonant line.
When are we going to see a new collection from you??
Read full commentPosted in Swallow-tailed Kites
I love that opening line -
Posted on Thu, 11 Feb 2021
I love that opening line - 'when stars sing their last song'. That's just so evocative, Jenny.
Read full commentPosted in We Are Stars
I don't know how I've missed
Posted on Sat, 30 Jan 2021
I don't know how I've missed all the parts of this Di - what a wonderful, magical story! You have really captured essence of cat in that dialogue. Mary is such a captivating young heroine.
Now I've caught up with it all, can't wait to...
Read full commentPosted in part 6
I'm an atheist, and have been
Posted on Fri, 05 Feb 2021
I'm an atheist, and have been since my student days, when I tried to become a Christian. I had a vague, background faith, but felt I really wanted to find the 'real thing'. I read, I listened, I joined a Christian group, I went to places of...
Read full commentPosted in The Theory of Everything (take 2)
Beautiful indeed. I may have
Posted on Fri, 22 Jan 2021
Beautiful indeed. I may have something in my eye.
Read full commentPosted in To a Lone Sailor
Not nonsense at all. Or, if
Posted on Fri, 15 Jan 2021
Not nonsense at all. Or, if it is, I wish I could write nonsense like this!
Read full commentPosted in Apple Tree
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