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I have 1193 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 3076205 times and 1221 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1745 of my 15,867 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1786 votes

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Grimms5

By celticman on Tue, 10 Jan 2017

Most folk in a room and kitchen round about here envy us, because there is only me and Da. I guess even Pizza Face, if he ever thought about anything...
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Grimms4

By celticman on Thu, 22 Dec 2016

Pizza Face ducked his head down when he took a drag on a fag and hid it behind his leg when he wasn’t smoking. He’d stolen a dout, almost a full...
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Story
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the three wise men + one

By celticman on Tue, 20 Dec 2016

I was coming back from the Dropp Inn and I met the three wise men, standing in the lane outside The Tasty Spot , at the fence, broken glass at their...
Spiritual
Story
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A gift at Christmas

By celticman on Mon, 19 Dec 2016

Years ago, when Christmas was still Christmas and I was just a wee boy stuck in my room in the attic because of the asthma, and everything else that...
Children's
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Grimms3

By celticman on Fri, 16 Dec 2016

Pizza Face is smaller than me, but with a big square head, so we’re really the same size. We’re standing in the smirry rain with duffle coat hoods up...
Drama
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1745 of my comments have received 1786 Great Feedback votes

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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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we all need to gather and

Posted on Wed, 12 Feb 2020

we all need to gather and tend as much light as we can. 

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Posted in Jar of Lights

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