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I have 1179 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2495341 times and 1205 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1648 of my 15,494 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1680 votes

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Cherry

Last Call

She clumped up the middle of Singers Road ignoring the pavements, damp and slippy with the mush of fallen leaves darkening pools against the wire...
Cherry

see you later alligator

We know what we know. We watched the world grow. And yet! And yet! There is that debt. There is that debt. Knowing doubts, bend us true. We know what...
Gold cherry

By Dickens

‘Another one to see you Doctor,’ said the receptionist, her droll tone on the phone, giving me adequate warning. ‘A Mr McDermid.’ Shuffled feet,...

huts second week, second day (first draft)

Our first formal class, critical theory in mental handicap nursing, takes place in the defunct maternity ward, in the old hospital. High ceilings,...
Cherry

huts second week (first draft)

Monday is Monday in anybody’s language. Black and wet outside and our miserable Monday weather seeps inside and ages me. I hunker down, bury hands...

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1648 of my comments have received 1680 Great Feedback votes

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I really enjoyed reading this

Posted on Sat, 12 Nov 2016

I really enjoyed reading this. The only false note I detected was you saying you were 'socially withdrawn' I prefer the more striaghtforward, I was shy. Reminds me a bit of Jackie Kay going to the same kind of meetings, but for socialists, and...

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Posted in Autobiography - To Revolution Singing

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there's a lot of pain here,

Posted on Sat, 12 Nov 2016

there's a lot of pain here, brimmng and overflowing words that stain our minds and we have no refrain, because, to be honest, we do the same cruel things again and again. 

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Posted in Do you?

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a year is nothing, but

Posted on Fri, 04 Nov 2016

a year is nothing, but sometimes it is something. 

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Posted in A Year

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summer cloaking turns...yes

Posted on Fri, 21 Oct 2016

summer cloaking turns...yes it's in the air. 

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Posted in A Tree Branch

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some interpretations of

Posted on Thu, 13 Oct 2016

some interpretations of -earth-history, I tend to agree with. What comes next? More of the same I'd guess. 

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Posted in testament: beneath the collonades

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noir always rains and grey

Posted on Wed, 12 Oct 2016

noir always rains and grey dayis n black and white in cinama pain, but here's to Gene, so long ago it seems obscene, but as you get older the frames get bolder and what stands true are the pieces of me and you. 

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Posted in It Rains in the Movies Too

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reminds me a wee bit about a

Posted on Sun, 04 Sep 2016

reminds me a wee bit about a girl that was taken to the doctors because she could never sit still. The doctor stuck some music on, and as they left the rooms, they watched her through a crack in the door. There's nothing wrong with her, 'she's a...

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Posted in The Land Where Dancing Was Forbidden

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yep, it rocks like a western

Posted on Fri, 26 Aug 2016

yep, it rocks like a western shoot-out. 

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Posted in The Crimson wake vii dark revelations

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wonderful story telling

Posted on Thu, 18 Aug 2016

wonderful story telling slinkygirl and really believeable narrator, or should I say narrators, because we are all more than one person, as to angels, well only the devil knows the truth of that. 

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Posted in Eighteen part one

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nice rhyme, nice time and a

Posted on Sat, 13 Aug 2016

nice rhyme, nice time and a Bermondsey boy returned to his roots and you've made his wrold known. 

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Posted in BERMONDSEY BOY (LONDON)

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