celticman

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I have 1216 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 3605123 times and 1252 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1924 of my 16,174 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1987 votes

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Jack O'Donnell

 

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Cherry

Grimms 76

Awash with pints and halfs and even mouth puckering gin, with a slice of lemon and whisky in the same glass. Cocktails of his own devising. His day...
Cherry

Grimms75

With all the cash Jaz is carrying and the hurry-scurry Rab is surprised to be standing beside him at a bus stop waiting for a bus. Jaz has brought...
Cherry

Grimms 74

Jaz hears the loud screeching and the rising harangue which follows. It woke him up. It wakes the whole tenement block. The smell of cigarette smoke...
Cherry

Grimms73

‘You don’t need to be daft and drown yerself. You can just drink the poison to kill yerself.’ Bruno is deft at sneaking up on people and has big lugs...

'Go'

You belong to the normal generation. Everything clear-cut and solvable. Climate change stabilised. No more poverty. Hunger eradicated. The gap...

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1924 of my comments have received 1987 Great Feedback votes

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this is great. Loneliness

Posted on Fri, 20 May 2022

this is great. Loneliness unravels us and poverty leaves us to our own devices. Both are entwined here. A work you should be proud of. 

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Posted in Old P

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yes, indeed can be poisonous,

Posted on Fri, 20 May 2022

yes, indeed can be poisonous, Beauty often is. 

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Posted in Eves' Tears

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you're certainlty not

Posted on Wed, 18 May 2022

you're certainlty not grossing us out. You're living it and we follow what you're going through. Nothiing gross. Nobel. 

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Posted in Janus 12

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I think she wants to give

Posted on Wed, 18 May 2022

I think she wants to give birth to the baby Jesus. I really like this, but too much exposition. .Need to lighten it a bit with dialogue. Perhaps some kind of arguement about which baby Jesus they want? the black or white one?  

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Posted in Legend of the Pah - 8 (S T Vasectomy Clinic)

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Living in the moment Jenny.

Posted on Mon, 16 May 2022

Living in the moment Jenny. An open book. An open window. 

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Posted in Open Windows Of My Soul

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yeh, made tastier by being

Posted on Fri, 13 May 2022

yeh, made tastier by being forbidden, I guess. 

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Posted in The Forbidden Kiss

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the worse case scenario, as

Posted on Thu, 12 May 2022

the worse case scenario, as you know, is undigested food. Well, there's a lot of worst-case scenarios and you've covered most of them. Nothing gross about it. Keep writing from the front line. 

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Posted in Hospital 3 and Janus 11

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lovely, but living in

Posted on Mon, 09 May 2022

lovely, but living in Scotland we dont' learn about sunshine until we're adults. 

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Posted in You learn about the sunshine

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I'm glad you've remained

Posted on Wed, 11 May 2022

I'm glad you've remained obfective enoght to write it all down. 

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Posted in Hospital 2, Janus 10

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I can't tell my trees from my

Posted on Mon, 09 May 2022

I can't tell my trees from my woods, but you make it sound easy. 

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Posted in Maple Tree Den

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