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I have 1210 stories published in
7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 3467641 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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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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I stole this poem from Vera
You cut a chrysalis just in case, kept the carapace on you. Tied a shoelace around the neck, the butterfly initials you never knew tattooed at the...
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Hardware Not Included
Clinically proven. I lived between rivers of drinking and islands of insanity. There were lots of reasons for it. But I bet you’ve heard them all...
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I'm a bit like you, I've
Posted on Sat, 30 Nov 2019
I'm a bit like you, I've heard of J.K.Rowling. Haven't read any Harry Potter. But I have hear the myth around how she was working in an Edinburgh coffeeshop...being turned down 12 times is nothing. I've heard of Sheldon, watched a bit of The Big...
Read full commentPosted in Jim Parsons and J.K. Rowling.
gritty and grimy, so he's a
Posted on Sat, 30 Nov 2019
gritty and grimy, so he's a cop, interesting. terriific wring. whose story is it, Gallacher or Crowe's? If it's Crowe's the descripton of him given (change of point of view) by Gallacher needs a bit of work and kinda jams the narrative.
Read full commentPosted in A Quality of inertia (WIP)
Word origin of 'vade mecum'
Posted on Tue, 26 Nov 2019
Word origin of 'vade mecum'
C17: from Latin, literally: go with me
I will walk with you a while in your writing. Alan Bennet's idea of reading as a hand held out which you grasp. Munch's scream is so popular because it allows for...
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Amen.
Posted on Fri, 22 Nov 2019
Amen.
Read full commentPosted in He Who is Sent
fireworks is big business,
Posted on Fri, 08 Nov 2019
fireworks is big business, but a shrinking business. I guess councils will opt out of having displays. What a waste of money?
Read full commentPosted in Pets And Fireworks.
I guess we all select books
Posted on Fri, 01 Nov 2019
I guess we all select books that we think has value. Our values differ. As do our tastes.
Read full commentPosted in Alien Opportunities Ch.1 : New Opportunities Part 3
It was elves. Elves were
Posted on Fri, 18 Oct 2019
It was elves. Elves were cheaper than robots are now. So they employed them instead of humans. Watch your tense. You tend to move from present to pass tense and back again. |No biggy, but keep an eye on it.
Read full commentPosted in Horn and Hardart Automat - (A day spent with my dad)
I guess we're all armoured by
Posted on Mon, 14 Oct 2019
I guess we're all armoured by indifference - unitl we're undone.
Read full commentPosted in Consulting the Runes
yes, I guess it's true we did
Posted on Sun, 13 Oct 2019
yes, I guess it's true we did test rats to death and they'd starve for their fix. I guess it's payback.
Read full commentPosted in Swiss Delight
I think you channeled (and I
Posted on Thu, 03 Oct 2019
I think you channeled (and I don't mean French channel) Ginsberg, well done.
Read full commentPosted in American Diaspora
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