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I have 134 stories published in 11 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 501054 times and 198 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1031 of my 4,553 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1120 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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1031 of my comments have received 1120 Great Feedback votes

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Good set up for the rest of

Posted on Mon, 01 Jun 2015

Good set up for the rest of your story.  There are some lovely touches - I particularly liked the description of the baby 'paralysed by love', and your detailed description of Kian's surroundings when he awakes gives the situation its own reality...

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Posted in Conquest of Chimera

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I really didn't want these

Posted on Sun, 24 May 2015

I really didn't want these three pieces to end, not because I was expecting answers, but because of the quality of the writing and the mystery of the world you have created.  The first part was almost too painful to read, with its tormented...

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Posted in Passing Through - 3/3 - Passing time with no time

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You do have a great ability

Posted on Wed, 13 May 2015

You do have a great ability to get inside different heads.  Yet again a strong visual sense to this piece, and I really like the insomniac city.  I think your previous two segments spoke more strongly to me personally, but that is the beauty of...

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Posted in A Morning in the Life of Many Ordinary People

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The imagery is so wonderful -

Posted on Tue, 12 May 2015

The imagery is so wonderful - 'a capriciousness of white horses' and the moon 'spat from the mouth of a fanfare of clouds'.  Mystery and magic.  It's great.

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Posted in Night in the Camargue

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I love the detail in this,

Posted on Tue, 12 May 2015

I love the detail in this, the way you gradually reveal the strangeness of the environment, and the way you have built up these two characters and their relationship, so that by the time we start to get an idea of what might be happening we...

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Posted in Red

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Thank you so much for reading

Posted on Tue, 05 May 2015

Thank you so much for reading and commenting - and for the Cherry!  Something to treasure when I ring the water company and confess I've lost my stopcock.

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Posted in A Pillock's Castle

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