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I have 1187 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2888452 times and 1215 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1694 of my 15,696 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1729 votes

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Grimms69

Tony dashes up the stairs without meeting anybody, but Bruno, who has been searching for him, spots him from the lobby and clunks up the stairs after...
Cherry

grimms68

Angela stands sulking in the driveway, near the dining-room window, anorak brushing against the wall, out of sight of everyone, poking at something...

Satiety centre.

I am no one. Never nobody What I fear is not here It’s my heart, they say That’s a start When I look I see the apparition Someone that looks Like me...
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Grimms67

Bob rolls up the sleeves of his frayed, green, checked shirt, and uses the side window of the dining room as a temporary seat. No wind, slow moving...
Cherry

cold pity

Something cannot be nothing Nothing cannot be something Yet A question of reality As seen in the visible galaxy Offers an analogy Black holes are...

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1694 of my comments have received 1729 Great Feedback votes

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a loud whiisper is an

Posted on Fri, 04 Jun 2021

a loud whiisper is an oxymoron. But I know what you mean. Choose whiisper or loud. Not both. 

moonlight doesn't trickle. 

great start, plenty of foot-to-the-floor action. And the question of what they needed to steal and why remains...

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Posted in Don't Look Back

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Blade Runner was certainly

Posted on Tue, 01 Jun 2021

Blade Runner was certainly better than the book. They tended to be prescient, but shit. Brought up o a diet of Star Trek, this is one of the great monolgues (not in the book). I'm rambling. Great poem. 

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Posted in Roy Batty (Tears in Rain)

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a happily unhappy story with

Posted on Sat, 29 May 2021

a happily unhappy story with an unhappy ending. Here's were we say, older and wiser, but life as you've shown is rarely that simple. 

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Posted in The one that got away

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bowl of fruit analogy works

Posted on Fri, 28 May 2021

bowl of fruit analogy works well.

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Posted in Alternatives

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if we get the truth, then

Posted on Thu, 27 May 2021

if we get the truth, then that's win-win. Certainly doesn't happen in politics, but maybe in cat patrol. 

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Posted in "Willow's Tail" 10

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you gave me the jitters. I

Posted on Tue, 25 May 2021

you gave me the jitters. I thought Trump was back, no longer barred from Facebook and Twitter and returning to the land of his mom's birth. Thank god it's fiction. 

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Posted in The Sure Yank Redemption

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I'm never sure when a poem's

Posted on Mon, 24 May 2021

I'm never sure when a poem's a poem, but as an elegy to the past- yeh, love it. 

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Posted in When We Were Young

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it's funny who we are is what

Posted on Thu, 13 May 2021

it's funny who we are is what we are, your mum in bloom as a flower lover. 

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Posted in Capturing Garden Memories

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not a fan of the Royals. But

Posted on Fri, 21 May 2021

not a fan of the Royals. But hey, loisng the internet is a royal pain. 

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Posted in The Internet Is Finally Restored (By An Angel) by Alfred N.Muggins

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I guess everyone is a poet or

Posted on Fri, 21 May 2021

I guess everyone is a poet or peasant or both. 

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Posted in In Conversation With Bears

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