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I have 1180 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
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huts 4 (rewrite)

Heebie-jeebies, I can’t sit still to read through the file on Norean Kileen. Try not to be too obvious. I spy on her as she waltzes down the corridor...
Cherry

huts (rewrite) part 3

Wullie the Pole wheels a trolley into the space between the doors of the kitchen and dining hall. The tables are set out for breakfast, but the hatch...
Cherry

little Hiroshima in my head

Little Hiroshima in my head. Up in the air Single self fractures and disintegrates Leaving life too late Making rubble of the past A future that will...
Gold cherry

huts 2 (rewrite)

'I'm looking for Ailsa ward.' I speak too quickly, trying to sound as confident as him, almost stuttering. But if I stuttered I would have died. The...
Cherry

huts 1 (rewrite)

The security guard with a pencil moustache, slides open the window of the lodge at the hospital gates and addresses me as ‘sir’. I’m given directions...

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1661 of my comments have received 1693 Great Feedback votes

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poor Jeremy I think the media

Posted on Sat, 26 Sep 2015

poor Jeremy I think the media assault will make him the ploughed field. Good to see Labour finally having some policies that don't mirror tit-for-tat Tory policy eg Miliband's pre-election boast to go with the Tory spending cuts if elected. Fuck...

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Posted in For the love of Jeremy Corbyn

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interesting, I was just

Posted on Thu, 24 Sep 2015

interesting, I was just thinking about something similiar (but different). How each generation weighs time. Trees by their weight of leaves offers the obivious analogy, are we so different? 

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Posted in My Father's House

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the sunset must have invaded

Posted on Tue, 22 Sep 2015

the sunset must have invaded the sky an orange.' I know what you mean, [the sun makes the sky glow orange] a little more care and you'll be right up there. 

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Posted in Running on Desire - The Boat

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there's a kind of coming back

Posted on Mon, 14 Sep 2015

there's a kind of coming back I like, an echo of the past and present, the begining and end. 

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Posted in The sound of my love

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you carry on too Jeanne we

Posted on Thu, 03 Sep 2015

you carry on too Jeanne we just muck in and write as we do. 

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Posted in dread-nought

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feels real. a headache that

Posted on Sat, 05 Sep 2015

feels real. a headache that binds all thoughts to hurry up and pass or let me die.  

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Posted in Migraine

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Reminded me a bit of Stephen

Posted on Tue, 01 Sep 2015

Reminded me a bit of Stephen King (Stand by Me and The Tommyknockers) it's certainly got that otherness that affects dreams and memory and turns a body. I don't think 'no one' needs a hypen. And I'm not sure about choosing 'initiates'. I love the...

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Posted in Relic

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thanks vera and littlebit. I

Posted on Thu, 03 Sep 2015

thanks vera and littlebit. I acutally forgot I wrote this. I guess that photo of the wee boy in the sand, like the one in MyLi, of a little girl burning in Vietnam, makes you think, just a splurge of sound, on paper, no real sense. What makes me...

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Posted in dread-nought

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I suppose getting it down on

Posted on Sun, 26 Jul 2015

I suppose getting it down on 'paper' might help? 

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Posted in Love Journal #1 Damage Control

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slight breeze and a hint of

Posted on Tue, 21 Jul 2015

slight breeze and a hint of danger in a leisurely lie. 

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Posted in Thoughts on a Rooftop

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