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I have 132 stories published in 11 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 457901 times and 192 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1001 of my 4,469 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1087 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!

 

 

 

 

1001 of my comments have received 1087 Great Feedback votes

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That's lovely!  I can see

Posted on Sat, 04 Jul 2020

That's lovely!  I can see this as a picture book for children.  They would love all the repeition and the rhythm of it.  

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Posted in Learning Counting 3, 4, 5 …

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Ah, half of those are me

Posted on Sat, 27 Jun 2020

Ah, half of those are me replying to the people kind enough to comment - including your good self!  Nice to see you, Tom!  

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Posted in Pad Life 12: Summer's Here!

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 I like the idea of them as

Posted on Sun, 28 Jun 2020

 I like the idea of them as funeral directors.  I love that painting, too.  

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Posted in Bluebottle

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Wonderful stuff, Luigi!  I do

Posted on Sat, 27 Jun 2020

Wonderful stuff, Luigi!  I do sometimes wonder where the sock-eating monsters come from.  Do they come with each house, or each washing machine, or are you allocated one at birth that just follows you around?  

Greatly enjoyed this.

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Posted in The Case Of The Disappearing Sock

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Such thoughtful words, Jenny,

Posted on Sat, 27 Jun 2020

Such thoughtful words, Jenny, sums up a lot of what I've been thinking.  I feel so much for the young people, with so much uncertainty ahead of them.  The times may be less dangerous for them physically, but I think it's going to be so difficult...

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Posted in Uncertain Days

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Just caught up with both

Posted on Wed, 17 Jun 2020

Just caught up with both parts of this, Penny, and very much enjoying it.  The blending of modern day life and the 'magic' realm is very well realised.  My only thought - and it's just fleeting - is that there are a lot of POV changes in a...

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Posted in "Antediluvian Trouble" Chapter 2

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Beautiful poem, Penny, really

Posted on Wed, 17 Jun 2020

Beautiful poem, Penny, really captures the child in all of us.  Definitely in need of some magic at the moment.

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Posted in "Could It Be Magic?"

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Going to cut this one out to

Posted on Sun, 14 Jun 2020

Going to cut this one out to keep, as we used to say in old fashioned times.  'The perish of groynes' - among so many wonderful phrases, this one took me right into the scene.  So much sadness, and a small, tentative, desperate hope.  Marvellous...

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Posted in Shark Eye Shell

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So enjoyed this.  I loved the

Posted on Fri, 12 Jun 2020

So enjoyed this.  I loved the bits that anchor it so well, like the impossibility of policing the keeping of people who have transformed into pets.  So funny, and so perfectly reasonable.  Great story.

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Posted in The DJs Who Turn into Swans

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It's nice to know that there

Posted on Tue, 09 Jun 2020

It's nice to know that there are still some decent people around.

Re 'selling sand to the Arabs' - the fact that you've raised a query about it indicates that perhaps you're not totally happy about it yourself?  I know we have other...

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Posted in The Bathroom Window.

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