celticman

Primary tabs

I have 1182 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2687402 times and 1208 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1671 of my 15,599 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1704 votes

Trusted critic
celticman's picture
Jack O'Donnell

 

My stories

Gold cherry

A refugee

Your life laid bare The sudden intimacy of violence Blood in the air Fully exposed. They place their faith Your lips, your tits, your cunt You squat...
Gold cherry

Ernie at the edge of the world

Ernie left his flat on the eight floor of Dunswin Court at around three o’clock in the morning. He’s got two bedrooms, but only uses one to live in...
Cherry

the big malky

Frank took two days to hitchhike down to London. The Big Smoke. First night sleeping in a plastic bin bag sheltering from the rain outside Piccadilly...
Gold cherry

Tribe

Mourn too late at the thrown bones of fate. Small ghettoes of the mind, open for business Better to keep thought away Scores to settle Wait for a...
Cherry

All my life

All my life I’ve been fucked-up as somebody obscene Now I’m safe and old I’m wooed and wowed ‘Have you been a good girl, eaten all your bread?’ What...
1 likes

Pages

1671 of my comments have received 1704 Great Feedback votes

1 Vote

sounds a bit like one of the

Posted on Mon, 21 Jan 2019

sounds a bit like one of the Hindu gods. 

Read full comment

Posted in Life and Times of a Priestess: Ch.11 : Dumis (Part 1 - Section 2)

1 Vote

I hope the poor wee soul is

Posted on Thu, 17 Jan 2019

I hope the poor wee soul is in a good place. Her parents were middle-class and photogenic. That helped fire the media uproar. And as we know from many studies, they staying together is unusual. The guilt they carry, who but they know?  

Read full comment

Posted in Madeleine McCann.

1 Vote

I can see the problem. And I

Posted on Mon, 24 Dec 2018

I can see the problem. And I can see the solution. But I've just not got enough sticky tape to join them together. 

Read full comment

Posted in A to B

1 Vote

there's a lot of love here. 

Posted on Fri, 21 Dec 2018

there's a lot of love here. 

Read full comment

Posted in love and laundry

1 Vote

a cave is a great place to

Posted on Tue, 11 Dec 2018

a cave is a great place to build characterisation from. keep going. 

Read full comment

Posted in The Cave Chapter 1

1 Vote

grief is a bell Harry (Kevin)

Posted on Sat, 17 Nov 2018

grief is a bell Harry (Kevin), and your story rings true. 

Read full comment

Posted in Gift: A Son's Story (Blood)

1 Vote

serenity, one of the few

Posted on Fri, 16 Nov 2018

serenity, one of the few things you can't buy. And great writing, well, you can buy that. I had the last meeting with my writing mentor Carl Mac Dougall today and he mentioned James Joyce and his story The Dead as being pretty much perfect., The...

Read full comment

Posted in Gift: A Son's Story (The Night Before)

1 Vote

wonderful story telling. I'd

Posted on Mon, 12 Nov 2018

wonderful story telling. I'd add Tom (Cruise) surname, I had to think about it and lazy people like me don't like to come out of the flow of the story to do that. brilliant. 

Read full comment

Posted in Sass (Part 2)

1 Vote

yes, what happened in

Posted on Sun, 11 Nov 2018

yes, what happened in Sarajevo spread through the Slavic nations and engulfed us all. 

Read full comment

Posted in Achilleio

1 Vote

that's what I call desperate

Posted on Thu, 08 Nov 2018

that's what I call desperate and sad Jenny, but what do I know? good story Harry, I'm sure it's a metaphor for living. 

Read full comment

Posted in Band of One

Pages