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I have 130 stories published in 11 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 361879 times and 185 of my stories have been cherry picked.
915 of my 4,316 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 990 votes

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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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Readings of Episodes One and Two of the Pad Life Journals are now available on Sound Cloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-968566758   More to follow!

 

 

 

 

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Cherry

Pad Life 8: Protect Our Way Of Life

More thoughts from the Pad. Picture: Pixabay Creative Commons.
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Cherry

Pad Life 7: A Submission and Three Falls

An ongoing journal series. I'll number them one day. Picture: Pixabay Creative Commons
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Story of the week

Scream

Not a piece of writing but a self-indulgent howl, written for entirely self-indulgent therapeutic reasons. Picture: Pixabay Creative Commons
Gold cherry
Story of the week

Pad Life 6: The Elephant In The Room

The nights are drawing in. Closing the blinds may be the best option. Picture: Pixabay Creative Commons
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Cherry

Tower of Strength Part 1 of 4

Re-posted in response to this week's IP - now available on Soundcloud. Link in text - despite repeated efforts, the link won't work when pasted here. Image: Author's own

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915 of my comments have received 990 Great Feedback votes

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Another great episode, Penny.

Posted on Sun, 13 Oct 2019

Another great episode, Penny.  The trees were my favourite bit too.  Trees are indeed the guardians of our world.  

I really like the way, in this story, kindness given brings kindness back.  It's a lovely message.

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Posted in "The Trouble with Magical Beings" (A Fantasy) Chapter 9

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I'm with you on this one. 

Posted on Wed, 02 Oct 2019

I'm with you on this one.  The only place grey looks magnificent is on an elephant.

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Posted in Fifty Shades of Shade

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A beautiful image, sitting

Posted on Sun, 12 May 2019

A beautiful image, sitting making music under a tree.  All your pieces have the ability to make the reader feel both the permanence of the surroundings, and the impermanence of the people, particularly the narrator, within them.  Our narrator is...

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Posted in Under the pines and the power lines

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As well as the wonderful

Posted on Thu, 09 May 2019

As well as the wonderful descriptions you get in these poems, they are always so well constructed, so that the way the words are used, as much as the words themselves, help the reader to see what you see.  Another beauty, Rhiannon.

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Posted in Transfixed!

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I really enjoyed this, and

Posted on Fri, 03 May 2019

I really enjoyed this, and then reading about the background to it made it even more poignant.  What a wonderful memorial to your relative.

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Posted in 1944 (12miles south of Spa Belgium)

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I am Delilah, and this is

Posted on Sun, 26 Aug 2018

I am Delilah, and this is being typed by the servant of myself and Zsa Zsa.  I have a new game for Omar.  Get your local vet to put either you or Mitsie on special expensive food that only the one of you is supposed to have, and then swap bowls...

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Posted in Omar's Diary - Sunday 26th August 2018

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More than one journey is

Posted on Sun, 04 Dec 2016

More than one journey is explored in this wonderful exploration of pain and hope.  That's why it's our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day!

Picture credit:  http://tinyurl.com/hrmu2lg

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Posted in Journey to Minneapolis

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Some very striking imagery -

Posted on Thu, 18 Jun 2015

Some very striking imagery - the one that stood out for me was the passage comparing Joanie's voice to a shotgun, 'her words repeating until the cartridge emptied, until her words were simple, hollow clicks.'  I wasn't too sure about some of the...

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Posted in Buried Secrets

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Pick of the Day

Posted on Sun, 24 Mar 2024

This is our Facebook and X Pick of the Day! Please do share if you enjoy it too.

Picture free to use at Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-...

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Posted in Swan Song

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This works very well indeed.

Posted on Sun, 24 Mar 2024

This works very well indeed. You capture a real sense of weariness and this swan losing his beauty and his verve, but still proud of the past. I have heard that things are very difficult for skilled clowns now, with the decline of circuses and...

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Posted in Swan Song

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