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I have 1213 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 3500104 times and 1247 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1874 of my 16,063 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1931 votes

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Awake

Almost the worst thing A face that no longer speaks Warfarin and medical wattle One that makes you weep Sloshing around is somebody No need for an...
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claptrap

Collecting a plastic medal on his 30 th anniversary. Clenched teeth and a rictus smile. The backslapping goodness of them all. Dry lips. Missing God...
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Cherry

Renaissance.

So it must have been after the birth of the Ku Klux Klan In the first, bright light, the spellbound hugged themselves In their fields of late-cropped...
Cherry

The Lost Manuscript 3

Dark was darker than death when you were younger. Light a flashbulb. No fat kids. No coloured kids, unless it was the black babies’ pictures you...
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Cherry

the lost manuscript 2

He didn’t set out to be a slob. It was just easier not to care in a flat-footed way to wear the same clothes until they were like twins with an...
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1874 of my comments have received 1931 Great Feedback votes

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great stuff Harry. We dressed

Posted on Thu, 23 Apr 2026

great stuff Harry. We dressed much like you did to go to school Mum took us the first day. Then it was my sister (aged 7) who took me to school. Parents didn't come and get kids. No parked cars. No cars. 

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Posted in Tom All Alone 14 (i)

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wow, sense of release. They

Posted on Tue, 21 Apr 2026

wow, sense of release. They made it. Bree made it. 

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Posted in Ridgeline - Part Seventeen: Gray Light

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an interesting turn of events

Posted on Wed, 22 Apr 2026

an interesting turn of events. Believeable. Somebody is always caught on the hop. 

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Posted in Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (19)

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absent gods, indeed, but

Posted on Mon, 20 Apr 2026

absent gods, indeed, but words fill the voids. 

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Posted in The Expanse

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ah, the mystery of big foot

Posted on Sun, 19 Apr 2026

ah, the mystery of big foot or small foot or no footage. Wonderful story telling. 

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Posted in Ridgeline - Part Thirteen: From the Woods

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wow, it's all comng together

Posted on Sat, 18 Apr 2026

wow, it's all comng together in shock and awe. 

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Posted in Ridgeline - Part Twelve: The Light

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endings or beginings or both.

Posted on Fri, 17 Apr 2026

endings or beginings or both. Sacrifice of the pure and innocent. Had me thinking of the Epstein grimoire. 

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Posted in Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (18)

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gloriously glorious and so

Posted on Tue, 14 Apr 2026

gloriously glorious and so real (as I remembered it back in the Stone Age, when I met Raquel Welsh). 

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Posted in Making Sense Of It All

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I guess we all want more. Of

Posted on Tue, 14 Apr 2026

I guess we all want more. Of what, I'm not sure. 

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Posted in Refugee

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Lots of loose threads Luigi,

Posted on Sat, 11 Apr 2026

Lots of loose threads Luigi, you made them rhyme and ended the crime-spree in Mornigton for us all to see. 

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Posted in Penny Pass the Story - Part 10

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