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I have 1121 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 1708312 times and 1127 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1374 of my 14,675 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1408 votes

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Goatie 5

All of a sudden your life is not what it was. Your brain does its best to catch up. I don’t know what’s happening. I feel like greeting, or giving...
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Goatie 4

The intercom is broken. Hughie can’t buzz me in, but somebody has solved the problem by wedging a brown bin in front of the reinforced door. I’ve...
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Goatie 3

I slept tranquilly. It gets to the stage where you become acclimatised to anything. Even prisoners at Auschwitz slept soundly. I’m in pretend mode...
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Goatie 2

I ponder my sleep-walking predicament. Apparently, I’m superhuman able to drink a glass of water without waking. I remember a case in which a man had...
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Goatie

MIASMA. That’s the word I was trying to remember. It’s all a bit stupid. It doesn’t really exist in the same way it did then as an invasive force. But you’ve still got the hangover of the word hanging like a bad smell.
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1374 of my comments have received 1408 Great Feedback votes

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who knows? But we'll all find

Posted on Sat, 18 Nov 2023

who knows? But we'll all find out in the less than gentle night. 

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Posted in Do Not Go Gentle Into That Dark Night

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that seems true, to you and

Posted on Sat, 18 Nov 2023

that seems true, to you and me, and so many others that yearn to be free and write a great novel or two, or even one would do. Barely noticed, but sitting on a shelf, itself, something.  

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Posted in To see the day of light

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the side effects of the side

Posted on Sat, 18 Nov 2023

the side effects of the side affects are always the killer. Then I guess everything is. I feel I shouldn't say I enjoy reading your dispatches from the front line, but I do. Hallucinations are always interesting. 

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Posted in Chemo2 - session 3

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it rocks Jenny 

Posted on Fri, 17 Nov 2023

it rocks Jenny 

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Posted in Analogy Of Adventure

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you've nailed it. Don't know

Posted on Thu, 16 Nov 2023

you've nailed it. Don't know if that helps? 

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Posted in Anxiety

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well you know then Jacques,

Posted on Wed, 15 Nov 2023

well you know then Jacques, small cop shops are like small nations. Full of egos and ballast. 

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Posted in Love Story 20

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I am very impressed. I am

Posted on Tue, 14 Nov 2023

I am very impressed. I am very impressed indeed. Much more to blackthorn than black. 

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Posted in Blackthorn

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her mum's right. If a ring

Posted on Tue, 14 Nov 2023

her mum's right. If a ring suits, she really should get married. makes sense especially in such a multicultural society. Look forward to seeing and hearing how she explains the man/robot in the toilet.  

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Posted in Parcel for you....Part 8

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yes, it seems that every kid

Posted on Mon, 13 Nov 2023

yes, it seems that every kid now has  50000 photos before they are five. When they ask what was I doing then? A photofile is always in bloom. An old fashioned diary is not everyone's choice. But for people like us it gives us a voice. 

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Posted in I Never Kept A Diary

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we mourn our loss of

Posted on Mon, 13 Nov 2023

we mourn our loss of innocence. We are blinded. Often by choice. I guess we've no skin in the game, the least we can say is not in my name. 

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Posted in Eastern Sky

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