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I have 223 stories published in
8 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 347937 times
and 178 of my stories have been cherry picked.
4 of my 138 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 4 votes
My stories
The Slippery World of Superstition
Superstitions are distorting, fluid things, whose meaning cannot often be grasped in the decades after they may have been recorded. Unlike the folk...
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Deep and Crisp and Even (Conclusion)
When he heard about this he went and set the house on fire and grimly watched the whole lot perish: wife and bairns and the bloody Hanoverian dogs...
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Captain Kidd, Accidental Pirate? Dundonian?
It was the fate of Captain William Kidd (1645-1701) to be mis-remembered after his dishonourable death and slandered in the centuries since as a...
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Deep and Crisp and Even (Part 1)
You forget how it once was. Animals out all night in the undergrowth, sequestered by what the drab season has thrown over the land. One small move on...
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Museum Grave
He lived for thirty years, this caption surmises, though I see slow pain gnaw and lay him like alluvial spoil inside a sandstone shelf, where a wife...
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