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I have 1193 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 3067844 times and 1221 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1745 of my 15,865 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1786 votes

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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...
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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...
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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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Grimms49

Tony shares a room at the top of the stairs with Bruno. ‘He’s a bed-wetter,’ whispers Julie. ‘We may get him up during the night to take him to the...
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Grimms48

Rab cashes his Giro the next day and agrees to meet Jaz and the Tash back in the pub. Jaz sits waiting, nursing a warm pint, the Tash beside him...

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1745 of my comments have received 1786 Great Feedback votes

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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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I've wondered about that too.

Posted on Mon, 10 May 2021

I've wondered about that too. Why guys off it (usually drink) for years, suddenly get the call. It's allway there, I guess. A backgruond hum. 

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Posted in Dyin Embers

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quite possibly true. Twenty

Posted on Sat, 08 May 2021

quite possibly true. Twenty years ago, I couldn't possibly imagine supporting Scottish independence. Now it's a no-brainer. I hadn't heard of the moron's moron Trump then, or his little trumpeter Johnson. Ingerland is welcome to them. My guess is...

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Posted in Ingerland My Ingerland

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a therapeutic remedy for us

Posted on Thu, 06 May 2021

a therapeutic remedy for us all, jenny. words that soothe. 

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Posted in Resting Place

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