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I have 1187 stories published in
7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2870392 times
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1693 of my 15,695 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1727 votes
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Grimms81
Lizzie is as lovely as Jaz remembered her, perhaps more so, with her chiselled cheekbones and hair untamed as a burning bush. The room is stuffy and...
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Grimms 80
‘What’s been the crack then?’ Del stands at the front door, a cigarette jammed between his lips. A clean white open-necked shirt sleeves contrast...
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the independent cluase
Head filled with different kinds of wrongness rightness and onscreen brightness squared aye by large numbers two points resistance to three points...
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Grimms 79
Tony’s social worker, Marie, arrives on an official visit. She waits for him in the office. Dayshift-staff circle around, Julie flustered, leaves her...
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Grimms 78
Fag smoke drifts above Pizza Face’s head. His is a frightened silence amid bickering conversation and accusations of neglect. The last of the sun...
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the mirage is the mirror to a
Posted on Tue, 14 Sep 2021
the mirage is the mirror to a larger hunger.
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I guess we're all galactic
Posted on Sat, 11 Sep 2021
I guess we're all galactic travellers, especially on the A29.
Read full commentPosted in The highwayman
I'm a reader that writes
Posted on Sat, 04 Sep 2021
I'm a reader that writes stuff nobody much reads. I've written a couple of longer, novel sized stories. One, in particular, I think is good and should be published. Sometimes I send it off. But I don't expect it to be publsihed. I don't really...
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twenty-years old [hyphen, I
Posted on Mon, 30 Aug 2021
twenty-years old [hyphen, I think]
beat-up dog.
could only have dreamt (delete 'of')
Whilst we couldn't ever remember meeting there, we got on from the first second (delete 'we met')
quiite a view from the summit....
Read full commentPosted in Chinese Whispers (edited and updated, 2021)
funny thing memory, who we
Posted on Fri, 27 Aug 2021
funny thing memory, who we are and who we are not. Dad and not dad. I'd the same thing with my mother. Mum and not Mum. When she died I said I was delighted. People might have taken that the wrong way, but not Mum had no life.
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I wonder if kids will know
Posted on Mon, 23 Aug 2021
I wonder if kids will know what SWALK is? but you certainly do. SWALK to you too. Well done.
Read full commentPosted in Love Letters From The Past S.W.A.L.K.
good stuff. I was wating for
Posted on Wed, 25 Aug 2021
good stuff. I was wating for Cole to turn up. As a seasoned reader of chimes, I knew he would.
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nicely done.
Posted on Wed, 25 Aug 2021
nicely done.
Read full commentPosted in Sleepy Time
yeh, we see each other, but
Posted on Tue, 17 Aug 2021
yeh, we see each other, but rarely outself. Well done.
Read full commentPosted in Leaving Home
aye, great ending.
Posted on Tue, 10 Aug 2021
aye, great ending.
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