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I have 1187 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2856635 times and 1215 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1692 of my 15,690 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1726 votes

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Cherry

grimms41

Tony remembers a parade of uniforms and much mumbling just outside of hearing. He forgets who has come or who had gone. Memories and dreams mixed up...
Cherry

grimms40

There is a vacancy in the way Tony looks out the car window at the sweep of tenement building they pass and a sense of unease that they are going in...
Cherry

grimms39

Tony hunch-shouldered, tethers himself like a human-shaped balloon on the edge of familiar things, the chair his da usually sits in, watching the...
Cherry

grimms38

Tony doesn’t decide to go to school, that’s just where his feet take him. The class has already garbled morning prayer, sung the time table and moved...
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grimms37

With no telly to watch, Tony changes quickly into his jammies, and because of the cold dives under the covers of bed. He sleeps clutching his book of...

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1692 of my comments have received 1726 Great Feedback votes

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When goblins, or anybody else

Posted on Tue, 27 Oct 2020

When goblins, or anybody else, thinks they have greater power, then we know what happens next? Well, maybe not? I'll wait and see. 

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Posted in Behold The Faerie Realm Part Three

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I want one of those scrying

Posted on Sun, 25 Oct 2020

I want one of those scrying bowls. But I might be too scared to look in. 

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Posted in Behold The Faerie Realm Part Two

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we all need a bit of wing

Posted on Sat, 24 Oct 2020

we all need a bit of wing healing, throw in wiches and goblish and faerie folk and we have a true-ish story. 

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Posted in Behold The Faerie Realm

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George the giraffe could be

Posted on Fri, 16 Oct 2020

George the giraffe could be the next president. Don't rule anything out. Or Peter Capaldi. That's the Thick of It (althugh have never seen it). 

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Posted in Pad Life 13: What The Giraffe??

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he was meant to be Britain's

Posted on Thu, 15 Oct 2020

he was meant to be Britain's answer to Elvis. Not for me. But I've no interest in music. Can't remember what he was accused of, don't care that much. interesting post. 

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Posted in THE GRANVILLE PARKERS - CLIFF- MOVE IT!

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classic ending. Chaplin was

Posted on Wed, 14 Oct 2020

classic ending. Chaplin was indeed a silent one. I loved the bit about Grace Kelly. 

Felix was overcome with surprise emotion and he was now happy he’d decided to make an appearance in the pub; 

This is a bit clunky. 'surprised...

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Posted in Phil Longley Was Still There (2)

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sad, very sad, animals and

Posted on Wed, 14 Oct 2020

sad, very sad, animals and people, facing the same monster we created. 

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Posted in An Australian View

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wonderful. Ewan namechecked

Posted on Tue, 13 Oct 2020

wonderful. Ewan namechecked me because I named a pair of shoes my character was wearng, Adidas Samba. These were the top of the tree. One of my cllass mates had a pair. I noticed he wre them all the times. We went to PE, he wore them for titba....

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Posted in I Name that Shoe....

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haunting 

Posted on Fri, 09 Oct 2020

haunting 

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Posted in Gatorland

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we all chase our dreams,

Posted on Thu, 01 Oct 2020

we all chase our dreams, sometimes, if we're very lucky, we catch them. 

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Posted in After Dark

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