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I have 1130 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 1753836 times and 1139 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1389 of my 14,752 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1424 votes

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Grimms54

The social-work meeting takes place after lunch. Tony lies on top of his bed, with belly ache, paging through a stained Readers Digest he’d found on...
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Grimms53

At breakfast Bob plonks himself beside Tony, ready to make a grab at him if he shows any inkling to butcher another resident or even staff, with a...
Cherry

Grimms52

The cook looks up from a pile of dirty pots and dishes, rolls her eyes at Tony and comes walking towards him standing just inside the kitchen door...
Cherry

Grimms51

Bruno is hanging about waiting for Tony when he comes out of the office. ‘An ambulance came and took Hunter away,’ he explains. ‘Hunter swears he’s...
Cherry

Grimms50

Tony places the fork carefully back down on the table, beside the butter dish. Clutching his eye, a colourful arabesque, milky with red veins, half-...

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1389 of my comments have received 1424 Great Feedback votes

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nicely done, very visual and

Posted on Thu, 07 Dec 2017

nicely done, very visual and acoustic. 

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Posted in Peeping at the Borrowed Plumes

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Mark the might mouse is a bit

Posted on Tue, 02 Jan 2018

Mark the might mouse is a bit of a spellbinder. I hope he doesn't overdo it with the catnip. 

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Posted in The Fairy Cats

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we live we die and wonder why

Posted on Fri, 29 Dec 2017

we live we die and wonder why. I don't know, but nearer the end than the begining is a trend. 

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Posted in The Search for Meaning

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yeh, shades of snow and ice

Posted on Mon, 18 Dec 2017

yeh, shades of snow and ice and all things nice, but a message too, not long for you. 

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Posted in The Snownan.

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nice eyes don't grow old they

Posted on Wed, 06 Dec 2017

nice eyes don't grow old they just lose a bit of twinkle.

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Posted in You had such nice eyes

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where are our friends,.

Posted on Wed, 06 Dec 2017

where are our friends,. indeed? 

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Posted in Touch Me Not

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nicely done. grown-ups are

Posted on Sat, 11 Nov 2017

nicely done. grown-ups are weird. That's why I refuse to grow up. 

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Posted in Poppy

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nice rhyme for halloween is

Posted on Mon, 30 Oct 2017

nice rhyme for halloween is ghostly time. 

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Posted in All Hallow’s Day

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I guess with hpyerbole and

Posted on Thu, 26 Oct 2017

I guess with hpyerbole and hyperreality sometimes we forget we're not always right. 

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Posted in Indifferent

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the sun brings its own

Posted on Thu, 26 Oct 2017

the sun brings its own medicine and this seems ancient and modern. The phrase, 'for wounded, beyond make mend' is slightly clumsy. I know what you mean, but simpler with 'beyond mend'. 

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Posted in Broken

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