celticman
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I have 1189 stories published in
7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2901461 times
and 1217 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1701 of my 15,722 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1737 votes
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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...
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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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CAPABILITY FOR WORK
Medical training costs one million To produce the right kind of thumb Upside down –you are all right son Shave a billionth of our tax penury Arbeit...
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how to be stupid
Reading is the engine of writing. Tune up. Breathe in the perfume of words and phrases. Become familiar with ignorance. Recognise it in yourself...
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dread-nought
Phrases orphaned and read cramming inside my head conversations of sounds drowning, clowning around silence of the heart dual rhythm apart...
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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.
Read full commentPosted in Rudy, Lil Red and DJ Gran [Red Riding Hood Retelling]
beautiful and true -god knows
Posted on Tue, 05 Jan 2016
beautiful and true -god knows it's true and so do you.
Read full commentPosted in Triptych 1: Mass
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.
Read full commentPosted in The Wardrobe
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.
Read full commentPosted in The March of the Dragons Chapter 2 (minus the last paragraph due to word count).
the world is a friendlier
Posted on Wed, 30 Dec 2015
the world is a friendlier place when we smile.
Read full commentPosted in Sometimes...
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?
Read full commentPosted in Glass is a Supercooled Liquid
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.
Read full commentPosted in the shared park
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...
Read full commentPosted in Plot without a story
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.
Read full commentPosted in 'Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'
time spins and
Posted on Wed, 11 Nov 2015
time spins and circumnavigates and I guess we place our bet of whose to blame on the table, never thinking our number will come up.
Read full commentPosted in oot ma heed.
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