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I have 1177 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2443779 times and 1201 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1636 of my 15,458 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1666 votes

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Cherry

grimms17

Jaz and Rab guard the bottom of the close, the wind scouring the back courts. The bins are on fire again. Flames leaving smouldering debris, the...
Cherry

grimms16

Instead of going home, Jaz kept walking. Not far, a few closes along, on another day, a good summer’s day, he could lean out the window and give Rab...
Cherry

grimms15

‘Get up, ya lazy bastard!’ Jaz’s mum Senga shouts at her son. ‘It’s almost twelve, why don’t yeh go out and get a job like aw the rest of them? I...
Cherry

grimms14

Jaz didn’t like wearing a hat, even though it was raining hard, because he thought it made him bald. Not that anybody would laugh at him. They wouldn...

a wedding

and so to the big day queen of the may white dress and wed honeymoon bled a word of advice you’ll find a history of people of infamy when they say ay...

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1636 of my comments have received 1666 Great Feedback votes

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yep, I read this. I like the

Posted on Sun, 17 Nov 2019

yep, I read this. I like the idea of all that fighting over a simulacra. But it was really virtue they were fighting over. Something they couldn't possess. I guess there's a bit of the idea of ideal forms thrown in as well. My answer is longer...

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Posted in trojan horse

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fireworks is big business,

Posted on Fri, 08 Nov 2019

fireworks is big business, but a shrinking business. I guess councils will opt out of having displays. What a waste of money? 

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Posted in Pets And Fireworks.

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I guess we all select books

Posted on Fri, 01 Nov 2019

I guess we all select books that we think has value. Our values differ. As do our tastes. 

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Posted in Alien Opportunities Ch.1 : New Opportunities Part 3

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It was elves. Elves were

Posted on Fri, 18 Oct 2019

It was elves. Elves were cheaper than robots are now. So they employed them instead of humans. Watch your tense. You tend to move from present to pass tense and back again. |No biggy, but keep an eye on it. 

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Posted in Horn and Hardart Automat - (A day spent with my dad)

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I guess we're all armoured by

Posted on Mon, 14 Oct 2019

I guess we're all armoured by indifference - unitl we're undone. 

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Posted in Consulting the Runes

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yes, I guess it's true we did

Posted on Sun, 13 Oct 2019

yes, I guess it's true we did test rats to death and they'd starve for their fix. I guess it's payback. 

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Posted in Swiss Delight

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I think you channeled (and I

Posted on Thu, 03 Oct 2019

I think you channeled (and I don't mean French channel) Ginsberg, well done. 

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Posted in American Diaspora

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I guess they make their home,

Posted on Wed, 02 Oct 2019

I guess they make their home, where they can, like the rest of us. 

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Posted in The Little Blighters.

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winer bites early. dark at

Posted on Tue, 10 Sep 2019

winer bites early. dark at eight. Just you wait...

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Posted in September Chills

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thnaks for reading and

Posted on Mon, 26 Aug 2019

thnaks for reading and commenting. No grammatical errors? must be getting better. That's magic for me. 

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Posted in good tears and bad.

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