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I have 1210 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 3466789 times and 1243 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1860 of my 16,037 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1913 votes

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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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I long for her to be Upstairs tucked in like me But not me Anybody but— – to know I’m doing OK Not mad Just be glad – When you turn off your tv...
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Huts Xish

After work my luck doesn’t change. On my way home I slide on a wet standing stones in the burn, and batter my knee off a submerged rock. I juggle...

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1860 of my comments have received 1913 Great Feedback votes

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thanks for reading, your

Posted on Mon, 16 Mar 2020

thanks for reading, your praise is bountiful (oh, dear-sorry). 

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Posted in The Bountiful

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build car parks everywhere. A

Posted on Fri, 13 Mar 2020

build car parks everywhere. A parks a park. I guess we've put them on hold for now. 

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Posted in Motorway City (Rock'n'Roll will never die)

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sweet and sour, but a miracle

Posted on Wed, 11 Mar 2020

sweet and sour, but a miracle of loving. 

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Posted in We Grow

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I like this very much. If we

Posted on Tue, 10 Mar 2020

I like this very much. If we didn't feel any pain, or emotion and thought ourselves always right and never wrong, then we'd be Donald Trump. 

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Posted in Imagine if we Didn't Feel Pain

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Lovely poem, I guess we never

Posted on Wed, 04 Mar 2020

Lovely poem, I guess we never learn and when we return to the earth we simply are. 

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Posted in Albion

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“Are you the Andrew Gumnerson

Posted on Mon, 02 Mar 2020

“Are you the Andrew Gumnerson [well, it’s close to my name] who wrote Escape from Alcatraz?”

#I'm sorry to have written to you Anderw Gummerson. 

#p.s. this is great. i also escaped from Alcatraz and other council flats. 

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Posted in On the Spectrum

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rbs chairman £700 000 per

Posted on Sat, 22 Feb 2020

rbs chairman £700 000 per annum pension fund. ahem

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Posted in September 15th 2008

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we all need to gather and

Posted on Wed, 12 Feb 2020

we all need to gather and tend as much light as we can. 

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Posted in Jar of Lights

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sad. but was it prayer (and

Posted on Tue, 11 Feb 2020

sad. but was it prayer (and time) wasted? 

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Posted in A Lesson In Life. Part Two.

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