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I have 93 stories published in
8 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 79915 times
and 118 of my stories have been cherry picked.
280 of my 2,357 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 287 votes
Short stories available in these anthologies: http://www.ironpress.co.uk/books/coldiron.html (as Jane Ayrie); https://www.valleypressuk.com/book/119/science_fiction_for_survival (as Jane Roberts)
My stories
The Net Caster (Part Twenty-Four)
I looked at Hamish. Who had replaced the dodgy businessman, the charming, self-serving rogue I had known since childhood, with this stern creature who delivered lectures to the powerful?
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I'll Teach You To Burn (IP)
Fire was a dominant theme in my childhood. It was for most kids in the fifties and sixties. It was one of our earliest lessons on the contrariness of life.
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The Net Caster (Part Twenty-Three)
I knew who she was. We all did. And every face was afraid.
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Castle Pillock 12
Castle Pillock has run the London Marathon! Well, one of us has.
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The Net Caster (Part Twenty-Two)
I began to laugh from fatigue, shock, grief, and an overriding terror of being locked down here in this cellar with a group of disparate and apparently ill-matched Bios.
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Orion keeps watch in the sky
Posted on Sun, 04 Mar 2018
Orion keeps watch in the sky above our garage. When my kids were small I pointed him out and told them this, and they were staggered when they found out they could see him elsewhere. He remains their 'special' piece of the sky, and I hope they...
Read full commentPosted in I Saw My Old Mate Again
I'm participating in a study
Posted on Fri, 02 Mar 2018
I'm participating in a study run by King's College, looking at mental capacity in older people (not being funny, I honestly can't remember what age you have to be to start participating ...
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You and me both, Elsie. We
Posted on Sat, 17 Feb 2018
You and me both, Elsie. We are of that same generation. I was a Rape Crisis counsellor twenty odd years ago, and an 'activist' for some years before that, and I get sick of the 'great and the good' saying now that 'no-one knew' about systematic...
Read full commentPosted in Why Feminism - Me too?
An intriguing story. Are you
Posted on Fri, 16 Feb 2018
An intriguing story. Are you planning to develop it further? I would very much like to know the outcome of this encounter!
Read full commentPosted in The Intruder
This heartfelt elegy for a
Posted on Wed, 14 Feb 2018
This heartfelt elegy for a way of life now gone is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day. Please do share/retweet if you enjoy it too.
Schubert - I've changed the image slightly, only because when I checked it (fear of the site being...
Read full commentPosted in The Last Shift
Lovely to have you posting
Posted on Fri, 02 Feb 2018
Lovely to have you posting again, Alan! This was really interesting. Some great physical observation and then those astute observations about the anonymity of hotels, the possibilities of unknown rooms and the stories they might hold. A rich...
Read full commentPosted in Checking In
Those anniversaries always
Posted on Tue, 30 Jan 2018
Those anniversaries always lodge in our hearts. I have a similar one myself coming up in a couple of weeks. It sounds as though you are at peace with your lovely memories, however hard it has been.
Read full commentPosted in The Anniversary(ies)
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...
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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
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