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7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2889783 times
and 1215 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1694 of my 15,698 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1729 votes
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criminal mastermind kaspar gutman
Sitting alone staring into thin air What with the squeak of the back gate ‘Who’s that there?’ I dare. A femme fatale appears out of grit and smoke...
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membership of the math group
Mutter of mathematics The path of a dumpling is never clearer The sum of all yearning Song of caged children –from long ago Rhyming the reasons...
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glitter
The man from Council. A wee nyaff, clipboard, pen and baldy heid. He’d come to see the wall in the back bedroom and there was no arguing with him. ‘...
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supernova
‘Fuck me like you hate me.’ He did. If you lived long enough, perhaps you’d have learned to kiss sweet as candyfloss, and kept a sensible distance...
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old stock
Some nights when Charlie can’t sleep the past will enter his heart, a skeletal broken thing looking for home and he’ll hear the truth of his youth...
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yeh, shades of snow and ice
Posted on Mon, 18 Dec 2017
yeh, shades of snow and ice and all things nice, but a message too, not long for you.
Read full commentPosted in The Snownan.
nice eyes don't grow old they
Posted on Wed, 06 Dec 2017
nice eyes don't grow old they just lose a bit of twinkle.
Read full commentPosted in You had such nice eyes
where are our friends,.
Posted on Wed, 06 Dec 2017
where are our friends,. indeed?
Read full commentPosted in Touch Me Not
nicely done. grown-ups are
Posted on Sat, 11 Nov 2017
nicely done. grown-ups are weird. That's why I refuse to grow up.
Read full commentPosted in Poppy
nice rhyme for halloween is
Posted on Mon, 30 Oct 2017
nice rhyme for halloween is ghostly time.
Read full commentPosted in All Hallow’s Day
I guess with hpyerbole and
Posted on Thu, 26 Oct 2017
I guess with hpyerbole and hyperreality sometimes we forget we're not always right.
Read full commentPosted in Indifferent
the sun brings its own
Posted on Thu, 26 Oct 2017
the sun brings its own medicine and this seems ancient and modern. The phrase, 'for wounded, beyond make mend' is slightly clumsy. I know what you mean, but simpler with 'beyond mend'.
Read full commentPosted in Broken
trays were our sleighs
Posted on Thu, 12 Oct 2017
trays were our sleighs
puss-in-boot style boots [too many boots. reword eg footware.
I'm not sure faces would be little, when you're little. Take out the uncertainties. eg, [perhaps with] a little ethnic design.
two-and-a-...
Read full commentPosted in Yellow Ribbons
the girls ruptured nose [girl
Posted on Sat, 30 Sep 2017
the girls ruptured nose [girl's]
her left leg juddered in a spasm, then with a slow exhale,
the pretty girl died. [formatting error here, but perhaps not in your text]
wonderful scene setting and writing.
Read full commentPosted in The girl with the Maroon lipstick (excerpt from Eagles Hunt Wolves)
stolent moments can be sweet.
Posted on Wed, 20 Sep 2017
stolent moments can be sweet.
Read full commentPosted in The Journey
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