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I have 1193 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 3090724 times and 1221 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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Jack O'Donnell

 

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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...
Cherry

grimms13

Traffic sloshes through the rain on Dumbarton Road. We pass a woman holding a brolly at forty-five degrees against the wind and to keep her permed...
Cherry

grimms12

Pizza Face has a size- 4 Mitre ball at his feet, keeping it under control, caressing it into going the way we’re going by touching it with the instep...
Cherry

grimms11

Despite smirry rain, Jaz and his two pals, Godge and Rab are drinking bottles of wine and messing about on the canal. They've hollowed a shallow boat...
Cherry

grimms10

Outside the wind carries the rain and it spills against my room window, but it’s not really that cold. I’m tucked up cosy in bed. I know all the...

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1749 of my comments have received 1790 Great Feedback votes

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luttered in soft symbiosis

Posted on Wed, 22 Jul 2020

luttered in soft symbiosis [sybiosis is the wrong word]

van outside to take her away (because she's a nut job) or something more? difficult balancing act, you've manage reality and unreality well. Keep movig. 

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Posted in Pins (15)

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the intestines of novels are

Posted on Mon, 13 Jul 2020

the intestines of novels are always tricky, especially when you're eating and drinking and talking. Life can get messy. Words we can hide behind. 

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Posted in Work Lunchbreak Flash, Alfresco at The Colonial Cafe

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‘For Christ sake, the dog’s

Posted on Sun, 05 Jul 2020

‘For Christ sake, the dog’s giving birth on my bed. Don’t just stand there, bloody do something.’

A dog giving birth on a bed is a good opening, but to leave the voice unattributed, hanging, as the opening sentence is equivalent of opening...

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Posted in The Human Touch: Chapter One

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when you're doing something,

Posted on Sun, 05 Jul 2020

when you're doing something, you're doing something else. you're being someone (else). 

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Posted in Ironing, a woman's half hour

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I guessed that Harrison would

Posted on Sat, 04 Jul 2020

I guessed that Harrison would become Grant. Good start to the body-swap story genre (if such a genre exists?)

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Posted in "Past and Present" Chapter 1

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good story. I don't think you

Posted on Wed, 24 Jun 2020

good story. I don't think you need to reiterate about the cancer being in the middle of Jeff's stomach. 

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Posted in I Can Never Say Sorry…

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yes - and moe. But we can but

Posted on Sun, 21 Jun 2020

yes - and moe. But we can but try to define it. 

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Posted in What is Love?

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hail, spring indeed. 

Posted on Sun, 14 Jun 2020

hail, spring indeed. 

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Posted in This year's walk...(08)

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for perhaps the first time,

Posted on Fri, 12 Jun 2020

for perhaps the first time, the younger generation can no longer expect to have a better life than their parents. That's the saddest part. As you mention, the rich had it easy. They still do. The poor had bleak and short lives, or so we would...

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Posted in Living In Another Era.

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there's hope for us all

Posted on Tue, 09 Jun 2020

there's hope for us all -eventually. 

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Posted in The Interviewee (2045)

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