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I have 75 stories published in
7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 53730 times
and 91 of my stories have been cherry picked.
228 of my 1,935 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 231 votes
My ghost story 'The Light Left' (under the name Jane Ayrie) can be found in the anthology 'Cold Iron', published by Iron Press:: https://tinyurl.com/yardmpqs
A short piece of science fiction, 'Madness Not To' (under the name Jane Roberts) is on the Terra 2 website here: :https://yorkstjohnterratwo.com/portfolio/madness-not-to-by-jane-roberts/
My ABC blog, including life at Castle Pillock, is here: https://www.abctales.com/blogs/airyfairy There are also some previous Castle Pillock episodes in the named collection below.
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My stories
Flowers (Part One of Two) (IP)
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Castle Pillock 13
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The Girl With Colitis Goes By
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The Net Caster (Part Twenty-Seven)
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Lustrum (IP) (With apologies to Robert Harris)
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A thoughtful story, with some
Posted on Mon, 29 Jan 2018
A thoughtful story, with some really nice touches. There's a build up of tension, especially when she finds the front door open, and the reader knows then that there is something not quite right. The idea of the ghost child being lost is very...
Read full commentPosted in Homeward
Reminds me of a conversation
Posted on Sun, 28 Jan 2018
Reminds me of a conversation I once had with a taxi driver, when we were reminiscing about one of the first nightclubs to open in our town. We wondered if we might have once bumped into each other there, back in the day.
Him: Ah,...
Read full commentPosted in A Younger Man's Trousers
We've all been there! The
Posted on Sun, 21 Jan 2018
We've all been there! The picture in our minds is perhaps not quite what others see. Lots of fun and life in this.
Small typo - in the first line of the last verse, should it be 'her' rather than 'het'?
Read full commentPosted in Rock 'n' Roll
I'm not vegan, or even
Posted on Sun, 21 Jan 2018
I'm not vegan, or even vegetarian, but I've never understood people who say others shouldn't be vegan because it's not 'natural'. It's not 'natural' for human animals to have flush toilets or central heating, but no-one seems to have a problem...
Read full commentPosted in .14 why am I 'vegan'?
This beautiful poem of love
Posted on Tue, 16 Jan 2018
This beautiful poem of love and mystery is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day! Please share/retweet if you enjoy it too.
Read full commentPosted in Queen Cordelia's Lament.
It does feel like things are
Posted on Mon, 15 Jan 2018
It does feel like things are changing, one way or another. It seems as though there are two forces engaged in a giant tug of war, and at the moment it's unclear which one will win. All that tradition is indeed comforting to many people, but it'...
Read full commentPosted in The Way Things Have Always Been
I very much liked the
Posted on Mon, 15 Jan 2018
I very much liked the structure of this, and the image of the dream slipping out and smashing on the tiles, releasing all that wonderful imagery, is very effective. Similarly the way it turns gently around on itself at the end, almost a dream...
Read full commentPosted in DREAMING
As another cat owned fool, I
Posted on Sat, 13 Jan 2018
As another cat owned fool, I very much enjoyed this. The image of unwinding like near broken clocks was particularly striking (oh dear, no pun intended) and there was something about the rhythm and the sensuousness of the language that really...
Read full commentPosted in finding peace
A timely reminder that, sadly
Posted on Tue, 09 Jan 2018
A timely reminder that, sadly, such attitudes do not belong to the past. The structure of this, the way the rhythm changes from the flow of the first section to the jaggedness of the second, is very effective at emphasising the content. It...
Read full commentPosted in The Dream
Lovely sentiments Richard.
Posted on Mon, 08 Jan 2018
Lovely sentiments Richard. And possibly the most important line in there is: 'still not too late, you know'.
Read full commentPosted in IF--
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