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I have 1187 stories published in
7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2853031 times
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1691 of my 15,690 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1725 votes
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Trigger
Homes built by spread sheets Sterling flows half-level to half level Splitsection soundaspace Stuck-up tower blocks. Designed by gods Jean or Jacques...
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thank-you notes
I wrote thank-you notes as a child. A thick HB3 pencil in my chubby mit. The pencil sharpener on the teacher’s desk, head height, was a big thing...
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Bernie the bolt.
I got a text message on the way back from Dalmuir Station. I checked my phone. Saw it was from Bernie. “Cm up & see me,” it read. His flat was...
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organist and monkey
The organ, off-kilter as a bagpipe chord, begins the first hymn. Major keys and minor key dance around the usual dirge. Funeral music. The...
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Don't talk back
I slept through the Russian missile crisis when John F Kennedy called the Russian’s bluff and sent them homeward to think again. It was a simpler...
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nature's grand design, right
Posted on Sun, 18 Jun 2017
nature's grand design, right enough.
Read full commentPosted in The Ghost Queen.
sometimes I rub against my
Posted on Thu, 15 Jun 2017
sometimes I rub against my ignorance and give it a shine. I know this. I know.
Read full commentPosted in Strange and Familiar Faces
the god paradox. Man can be
Posted on Wed, 17 May 2017
the god paradox. Man can be searching for something. I've no answers
Read full commentPosted in A Different Kind of Prayer (Part 2)
Fathers are a strange breed.
Posted on Mon, 01 May 2017
Fathers are a strange breed. I didn't know mine either, even though he was nominally there when my mum brought us up. I take after my father, of course.
Read full commentPosted in Shlamek
aye, as an old baldy, I
Posted on Sat, 18 Mar 2017
aye, as an old baldy, I sympathise. No next time!
Read full commentPosted in The border of earth
nicely done.
Posted on Fri, 10 Mar 2017
nicely done.
Read full commentPosted in 'Sourire' Haiku Set
a trumpet for a brother, a
Posted on Sun, 26 Feb 2017
a trumpet for a brother, a trumpet for a sister, my guess is your guess, is that the broom that sweeps may, indeed, sweep us all away.
Read full commentPosted in Brocken Spectre
I know lots of stories about
Posted on Fri, 24 Feb 2017
I know lots of stories about drinking and drunks, some funny, some sad, some funny and sad at the same time. How do we reach honesty? That's a different story, and one which I'm not quite sure how it ends. I think you've had a good crack at here...
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I like that Phil. All writing
Posted on Tue, 21 Feb 2017
I like that Phil. All writing is the Wizard of Oz pulling the curtain away. You know that because you do it too.
Read full commentPosted in grimms31
if you don't know if it's
Posted on Mon, 23 Jan 2017
if you don't know if it's fact or fiction, then that's a good measure. Not that it matters. We're all fictional creations. Life catches us all. Death, last and forever.
Read full commentPosted in Dave Swakeley is Dying
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