celticman

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I have 1187 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2859248 times and 1215 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1692 of my 15,690 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1726 votes

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Cherry

fix you 2

Gary didn’t want to go out and play. He was small for his age. They could fix that his dad had said, but they didn’t have the money, and anyway you...
Cherry

Fix You

The window in the squad car scanned Inspector Allan’s retinas before taking him where he had to go. A child had been found lying in the snow. From...
Cherry

spider town

I saved a spider in a paper cup. It spidered away with the cup I caught a spider with a soup pot It spidered away with the pot I cornered a spider in...

Ferme

A tree of meaning grows bark Leans to-and-fro Week by week something new Light shifting through Lopped off words Out on a limb Life keeps tripping...

Peachy pictures

Told to sort through my things. You were funny, born nearer to the Sex Pistols with their purple Mohican hairdos, their zips and spits and fuck you,...

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1692 of my comments have received 1726 Great Feedback votes

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unbalancing planes is quite a

Posted on Sat, 16 Jan 2016

unbalancing planes is quite a trick, but I guess I could get good with time. Liked this. 

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Posted in Beginners, Please...

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oh, date with new dentures.

Posted on Wed, 06 Jan 2016

oh, date with new dentures. the wolf equivalent of garlic. Nice little mix and minx of a story. 

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Posted in Rudy, Lil Red and DJ Gran [Red Riding Hood Retelling]

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beautiful and true -god knows

Posted on Tue, 05 Jan 2016

beautiful and true -god knows it's true and so do you. 

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Posted in Triptych 1: Mass

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the afforntery of that Clare,

Posted on Mon, 04 Jan 2016

the afforntery of that Clare, watch out for the creak of the wardrobe and soon she'll no be there. I like this.

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Posted in The Wardrobe

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 Vietnamese with a waiting [t

Posted on Mon, 14 Dec 2015

 Vietnamese with a waiting [t]Taxi driver

 he [w]Winced.

characterisation and descriptive prose are great. 

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Posted in The March of the Dragons Chapter 2 (minus the last paragraph due to word count).

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the world is a friendlier

Posted on Wed, 30 Dec 2015

the world is a friendlier place when we smile. 

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Posted in Sometimes...

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in case they hurt themselves,

Posted on Sun, 20 Dec 2015

in case they hurt themselves, you see, I see clearly, but what can you do when there's only me and you? 

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Posted in Glass is a Supercooled Liquid

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good ending in a sickish sort

Posted on Wed, 25 Nov 2015

good ending in a sickish sort of way, sums the story up well. I can't say I've noticed anything like that in my local forays through the park, but I guess as it's always pissing down that helps dampen people's rogering forays. 

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Posted in the shared park

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I didn't think he was very

Posted on Sat, 21 Nov 2015

I didn't think he was very funny. I'll rephrase that, he wasn't funny, but I didn't think you got jailed for it. That worries me. I'm packing my cardigans into a bag now. Ready to flee to England where there's a lot of funny folk. Just another...

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Posted in Plot without a story

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the mastery of time seems to

Posted on Sat, 14 Nov 2015

the mastery of time seems to be your line. I guess Switzerland isn't much of a date, especially if you've left life too late, but what wonderful recall, it's a lesson to us all. 

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Posted in 'Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'

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