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I have 229 stories published in
8 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 385575 times
and 185 of my stories have been cherry picked.
3 of my 136 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 3 votes
My stories
Auld Man
Auld Man, I trouble you with remembrance, now you’re sixty years dead. Green shillings on eyes have been robbed by otherworld rogues from where we...
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Murder at the Feast, The Treachery of Scone
Primary among the bedrock stories of the formation of Scotland is the legend that the Gaelic king Cináed mac Ailpín, or Kenneth mac Alpin, murdered a...
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Island Queens - The Hebridean Tradition
Traditions of female rulers in the Hebrides are more evident, albeit tantalising in detail, than anywhere else in Scotland. An Irish writer, writing...
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The Battle of Dún Nechtain, A Rearguard Action in Defence of Dunnichen
The battle somewhere in Pictland, during which the Picts supposedly threw off the yoke of the over-reaching of the Northumbrians, is a puzzle on...
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Tales of the Whales (Part One)
One of the most extraordinary recent news items featured the finding of a Dundee whaling vessel near Disko Island in Greenland . The story in the...
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