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I have 135 stories published in 11 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 551025 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

Daisy and The Chalet Woman (Pt 3)

Kati formulates a plan. An ending. Possibly not THE ending. Still needs a lot of work.
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Cherry

Daisy and The Chalet Woman (Part Two)

Part Two. Still don't know the ending.
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Cherry
Story of the week

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.
Cherry

A Pillock's Castle

First find your stopcock

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1063 of my comments have received 1157 Great Feedback votes

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Poem of the Week

Posted on Tue, 23 Jan 2024

Brilliant in its evocation of time and place, and in its urgency, this is our Poem of the Week. Congratulations!

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Posted in Act! A Poem for Basildon

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There's that quote about

Posted on Fri, 26 Jan 2024

There's that quote about someone's friends being the best measure of their worth and it sounds as though Mac was proof of that. The memories will survive the sadness.

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Posted in Cheers

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Mine is "You know, Mary What

Posted on Fri, 26 Jan 2024

Mine is "You know, Mary What's-her-face, married Bill What's-his-name's brother..." "Ah yes," says my similarly memory challenged interlocuter, with a knowing smile. Although 'London Bridge' has more style!

I do hope most of the people I...

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Posted in Forgetting something? Just say London Bridge.

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Pick of the Day

Posted on Sat, 20 Jan 2024

Some very much wanted magic in gloomy January! This enchanting opening to a very promising tale is our Facebook and X Pick of the Day. Please do share if you enjoy it too.

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Posted in "Unwanted Magic" 1

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Pick of the Day

Posted on Tue, 09 Jan 2024

A much needed bit of optimism for the New Year, and it's our Facebook and X Pick of the Day. Please do share if you enjoy it too.

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Posted in January Panorama

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Wishing you good things and

Posted on Tue, 02 Jan 2024

Wishing you good things and happiness in 2024 and beyond. Lovely to hear you say you are resolved to be your whole self - I do so hope it all works out.

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Posted in New year's rant

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This story is so great, and

Posted on Mon, 01 Jan 2024

This story is so great, and after this I shall never approach changing my printer cartridges in quite the same frame of mind. Such a funny and unsettling tale. Lovely writing.

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Posted in Parcel for you....Part 11

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Enjoyed this very much.

Posted on Mon, 01 Jan 2024

Enjoyed this very much. Although I am rather with insert on the microwave question. Ditto the actual oven.

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Posted in New Year's Resolution

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Enthralling in the purest

Posted on Sat, 30 Dec 2023

Enthralling in the purest sense - I was absolutely in its thrall from the first line. I love the idea of being a woman of the mist, and there is indeed a fear of grey-haired women. I didn't know about the Long Compton witches, so the poem sent me...

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Posted in The Witches of Long Compton

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Wonderfully entertaining, and

Posted on Thu, 28 Dec 2023

Wonderfully entertaining, and informative! Whatever my quibbles with English, I am forever grateful we don't have the masculine/feminine shenanigans, even if most of our grammar and spelling make no sense whatsoever. Accents are always...

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Posted in Lingo Bingo

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