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I have 1195 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 3128780 times and 1223 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1762 of my 15,925 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1804 votes

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awaiting

She nipped out to the Co-op. It was cold out, but she didn’t have a jacket because she didn’t think she’d need a jacket because she wouldn’t be that...
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Python

Mrs Helen Sattar, the Community Member of the Parole Panel listens. Writes messages to herself, but until now remains silent. ‘How do you feel about...
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how to get rid of free

For the price of wisdom is the government of undead Above Rupert Murdoch’s ancient heraldic head Weapons of mass destruction their paths of greed...
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R&D 6

Smoke clings to Abraham as his fingertips trail over the uneven stone wall of the old bakery. The coppery smell of blood rather than bread makes his...
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R&D 5

They stood waiting. The first gulls met the day with their ragged crying over the tenement rooftops, the boards on the pier slick underfoot. Fog...
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1762 of my comments have received 1804 Great Feedback votes

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ah, superpowers. I'd love one

Posted on Sun, 08 Sep 2024

ah, superpowers. I'd love one, but the price is too high. 

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Posted in A hundred moments in autism - A trip to the cinema

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I used to get hot flushes

Posted on Thu, 28 Mar 2024

I used to get hot flushes when I tried to talk to any beautiful girls I'd been at school with. I used the 15 pints and I was ready to roar, rather than the Erazofuge. As I got older I tried cutting down to a reasonable 12 pints. But I had to up...

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Posted in Erazofuge

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tragic, like you I don't have

Posted on Sat, 01 Dec 2018

tragic, like you I don't have an answer. Poverty, not morals is the key. We use the latter as a scapegoat, a standared practice by, for example, Jenhovah Witnesses to get a foot in the door, is to say how much worse the world is getting. They've...

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Posted in When Death Comes Too Soon

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I guess we all do, some more

Posted on Tue, 10 Feb 2026

I guess we all do, some more readily than others. 

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Posted in I Go My Own Way

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don't worry about it. always

Posted on Wed, 14 Jan 2026

don't worry about it. always great advice If you don't worry about it, there's really something wrong- with you. 

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Posted in Gloom and Doom (sorry)

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less than ten years, with

Posted on Mon, 12 Jan 2026

less than ten years, with time off for good behaviour. 

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Posted in Ghigau 22

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I kinda remember

Posted on Mon, 05 Jan 2026

I kinda remember decimilisation A penny carmel became tuppence. Sixpence became two-and-a-half pee. But at my age, mention pee and immediately I need to go to the toilet. Can't say I was moved by John Lennon's death. I'm with you on the-yet again...

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Posted in The Quest to Find the Sarashka Mosque

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thanks TJ and Vera and Insert

Posted on Wed, 10 Dec 2025

thanks TJ and Vera and Insert and Turlough as you know without readers, we don't really exist. 

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Posted in R&D 5

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Well both could raise the

Posted on Fri, 14 Nov 2025

Well both could raise the dead, or you'd die trying. 

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Posted in Saturday Night's Alright for Peaches

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I never sing in the car as

Posted on Sun, 02 Nov 2025

I never sing in the car as somebody might be listening and it might well be me. Singing in the bus is entierly different. Nobody wants you to sing. But you've a constitpishinable right to pish everybody off. 

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Posted in Ardara Rain’s A-Gonna Fall

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