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I have 1187 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2843623 times and 1215 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1689 of my 15,677 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1723 votes

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grimms22

By celticman on Tue, 31 Jan 2017

Tony is lying in bed sleeping. It’s a Saturday, no school, and a long lie. But he hears his Da arguing with Geordie the milkman outside the front...
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Certificate 12
Gold cherry

Grimms21

By celticman on Mon, 30 Jan 2017

Snow breezes into the close, but turns to rain. Angela trails behind Pizza Face and Tony. Duffle coat hoods up, sucking in cool air, and a trio of...
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Certificate 12
Cherry

grimms20

By celticman on Sat, 28 Jan 2017

The fog lifts from the tops of the buildings leaving them stranded in light rain. By the time Dermot gets back to his close he spots pedestrians...
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Certificate 15
Cherry

grimms19

By celticman on Fri, 27 Jan 2017

Dermot picks up Angela and carries her into his wee boy’s room. His son, a step ahead in the lobby, slips into the room picks up his book of fairy...
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Certificate 15
Cherry

grimms18

By celticman on Thu, 26 Jan 2017

It’s closing time when Dermot leaves the pub. The last round of drinks with his mates he’s downed a couple of goldies, the whiskies flowing through...
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Certificate 18

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1689 of my comments have received 1723 Great Feedback votes

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poets know how to wait.

Posted on Tue, 17 Mar 2020

poets know how to wait. Sometimes a word's not too great. Then our foolishness does abate. Stanzas await. 

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Posted in To wait

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thanks for reading, your

Posted on Mon, 16 Mar 2020

thanks for reading, your praise is bountiful (oh, dear-sorry). 

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Posted in The Bountiful

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build car parks everywhere. A

Posted on Fri, 13 Mar 2020

build car parks everywhere. A parks a park. I guess we've put them on hold for now. 

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Posted in Motorway City (Rock'n'Roll will never die)

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sweet and sour, but a miracle

Posted on Wed, 11 Mar 2020

sweet and sour, but a miracle of loving. 

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Posted in We Grow

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I like this very much. If we

Posted on Tue, 10 Mar 2020

I like this very much. If we didn't feel any pain, or emotion and thought ourselves always right and never wrong, then we'd be Donald Trump. 

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Posted in Imagine if we Didn't Feel Pain

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Lovely poem, I guess we never

Posted on Wed, 04 Mar 2020

Lovely poem, I guess we never learn and when we return to the earth we simply are. 

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Posted in Albion

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“Are you the Andrew Gumnerson

Posted on Mon, 02 Mar 2020

“Are you the Andrew Gumnerson [well, it’s close to my name] who wrote Escape from Alcatraz?”

#I'm sorry to have written to you Anderw Gummerson. 

#p.s. this is great. i also escaped from Alcatraz and other council flats. 

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Posted in On the Spectrum

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we were all modern once. well

Posted on Wed, 26 Feb 2020

we were all modern once. well, apart from me. I was talking to my neighbour yesterday and she was telling me how she was at her grannies and people were out in the rain flinging coins under the tracks as the last tram passed (away). I was able to...

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Posted in Buses

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rbs chairman £700 000 per

Posted on Sat, 22 Feb 2020

rbs chairman £700 000 per annum pension fund. ahem

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Posted in September 15th 2008

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