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I have 1213 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 3501724 times and 1248 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1875 of my 16,067 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1933 votes

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Jack O'Donnell

 

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short history of time

God bless king time death ruin of all pleasure and pain The wheel turns again desire begets a friend free in a long tramp ache to the cravings fire...
Cherry

Grimms2

Dad was better fun than an alarm clock. I used to watch him before I was old enough to get locked up in school. The light in my room was on the death...
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gallows

I’m a creature of the past Sometimes the present Things I will do with placards and posts Rarely, I’ll be me as a child will be - no history teacher...
Cherry

Grimms

Dad pushed the room door open. I hadn’t heard him, or the door going. I was sitting side saddle on my bed, one leg a comfortable numbness, bare feet...

a stumbling block

All is grace All is despair When you are not there When you are there For god’s sake For our sake Where is he? Where he is I hear a voice I hold a...

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1875 of my comments have received 1933 Great Feedback votes

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I've no knowledge of music

Posted on Wed, 07 Apr 2021

I've no knowledge of music but have heard the name Stravnsky and I might even have heard riot of spring. As your poem shows, listening to music is classless. We all appreciate beauty, but in different ways. 

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Posted in The Riot of Spring (Pictures of Pagan Russia 1913)

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thanks insert, you don't miss

Posted on Sat, 03 Apr 2021

thanks insert, you don't miss much, apart from writing...get to it. 

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Posted in Sooz

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I'm not sure James II thought

Posted on Fri, 02 Apr 2021

I'm not sure James II thought it silly to embrace Cathlicism. He was Catholic. I guess we can thing it silly now, but with tens of thousands of life lost, well it gave us William of Orange and changed history. 

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Posted in Thank God It's Good Friday! (and April Fools) By Alfred N.Muggins

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you're always a breath of

Posted on Sat, 27 Mar 2021

you're always a breath of fresh air, Jenny. 

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Posted in Pastiche

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I'm not a dog or cat person,

Posted on Sun, 21 Mar 2021

I'm not a dog or cat person, but my partner is. Our current cat, which we've had for a few years, is sick. It was a stray that found its way to our back door a few years ago. She did the usual stuff of putting out milk and food for it. Then you...

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Posted in "The Canines of My Life"

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Lovely memory and poem. 

Posted on Thu, 25 Mar 2021

Lovely memory and poem. 

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Posted in The Last Time I Saw Fungie (2005)

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I'm a fruitcake too. 

Posted on Tue, 23 Mar 2021

I'm a fruitcake too. 

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Posted in I am a Fruit Cake

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sharp stuff jenny, but also

Posted on Sun, 14 Mar 2021

sharp stuff jenny, but also kinda cosy. 

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Posted in Escape To Freedom

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black holes hold the secrets

Posted on Wed, 10 Mar 2021

black holes hold the secrets of the universe or universes. yeh, gods look on. 

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Posted in Black Holes and Revelations

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too late now, too late (you

Posted on Thu, 04 Mar 2021

too late now, too late (you could get a booker, for that line alone). 

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Posted in No one comes here.

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