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I have 135 stories published in 11 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 543028 times and 200 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1056 of my 4,586 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1147 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

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Just Put Me In The Fridge

I should stop reading the papers and the news websites. No good at all for my blood pressure. Picture: Pixabay Creative Commons
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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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Scream

Not a piece of writing but a self-indulgent howl, written for entirely self-indulgent therapeutic reasons. Picture: Pixabay Creative Commons
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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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1056 of my comments have received 1147 Great Feedback votes

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Just read all the parts of

Posted on Fri, 03 Jul 2020

Just read all the parts of this straight through, and most disappointed that there's not a link to another one!  I remember the first draft of this, which I really enjoyed, but this is another level entirely.  Utterly engrossing.  The characters...

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Posted in Pins (6)

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Agree so much with your words

Posted on Sun, 14 Jun 2020

Agree so much with your words about 'tolerance'.  Tolerance of others is a privilege for the powerful.  

I'm going to be coming back to this one, because there's so much in there to think about.

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Posted in Outsiders, and the clubhouse door

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There have been times when I

Posted on Thu, 02 Apr 2020

There have been times when I've felt just like that.  It's a bit like when there's an eclipse of the sun, and you know it's going to come back, but then it takes longer than you thought and somewhere deep inside you a little prehistoric creature...

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Posted in Locked

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I hope your kind narrator

Posted on Tue, 31 Mar 2020

I hope your kind narrator bought shares in Andrex.  Really enjoyed this.

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Posted in The Stranger In The Pub

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Completely echo Drew's

Posted on Sun, 15 Mar 2020

Completely echo Drew's comment.  I love hearing writers read their work, it always brings an extra dimension to it.  And no ashtrays heard here, either!  

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Posted in Ash Trees

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I did like your list of

Posted on Thu, 05 Mar 2020

I did like your list of apocalypse threats that we have all survived!  As you say, we shall get through this one too.  As far as I understand it, it isn't that this virus is hyper-deadly, it's just that it's new so  no-one has had a chance to...

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Posted in The Coronavirus.

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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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