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I have 1176 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2441347 times and 1201 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1636 of my 15,454 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1666 votes

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flockers 9

Felt better. Scrubbed up as best as I could in the morning, a complexion like boiled pink ham, showed a face no mother would kiss. Breakfast a...
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King of the Dole

Eleven o’clock opening. Davie wedged himself on his usual barstool with his back to the mosaic of square windows. He leaned across a bar still wet...
Cherry

flockers 8

When Myra told me she went back with Charlie after he raped her I didn’t understand it, but in a way I did. She made a bed up for me on the settee...
Cherry

flockers 7

Myra’s studio flat had heating and hot water. I could have cuddled her. She ran a bath with all the suddy and splashy smelly stuff. She dipped her...
Cherry

truth grows teeth

Truth grows teeth Anger and shame came You leaving again Kin and king of what might be mine Bullied aside as obscene Luxury we can ill afford Mourn...

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1636 of my comments have received 1666 Great Feedback votes

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Home from school for the

Posted on Tue, 28 Oct 2014

Home from school for the Summer, I had been enjoying a leisurely reintroduction to home, taking my dog Barney out for walks [Back from school > that way you don't use home twice in the same sentence]

from los parentes [should this be...

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Posted in A Wake for Barney

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cast (not callously caste)

Posted on Tue, 21 Oct 2014

cast (not callously caste) although caste is perhaps nearer the mark. I'm sure everything will turn out wonderfully well when your shoplifting skills get better. I thought paracetamol screwed up your liver (not your kidneys) and was usually fatal...

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Posted in The Diary of an Aspiring Hitman - Chapter 2

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good twist and it does seem

Posted on Tue, 21 Oct 2014

good twist and it does seem to match fairy lore, perhaps the last paragraph is unnecessary? 

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Posted in Wind Dancer

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Nature is as precise an

Posted on Wed, 01 Oct 2014

Nature is as precise an accountant as any. [delete last two words]

Wonderful story and the telling it of it wasn't bad either, spicy and full of sausage (oh dear, couldn't help that pun). 

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Posted in The Ministry of Kisses

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had to look up arpicity.

Posted on Sun, 28 Sep 2014

had to look up arpicity. Enjoyed the mixing of astronomy, metrical feet and hands and knees. In other words I enjoyed this poem. Almost there with Ex. You've done a great job. A little more and you'll be there. Where, I'm not sure exactly. 

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Posted in Rosalind

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dimly-lit students'. You

Posted on Fri, 26 Sep 2014

dimly-lit students'. You maybe better finding another description that's too much like a light bulb. 

.There's no such thing...' ditch the full stop at the begining of this section. 

Do what thou wilt is the whole...

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Posted in Do what thou wilt

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yep, I'm with Charles Schultz

Posted on Sun, 21 Sep 2014

yep, I'm with Charles Schultz, although, of course, my family never had a car, because only rich folk did, but hey, it's a sunny day. I liked this.

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Posted in Don't Ask

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yeh, I get it, but someone

Posted on Sat, 13 Sep 2014

yeh, I get it, but someone stole it off me.

It's something the Asian students do TO WORN...think you missed out a few words here.

great story. true to life (and I'm not a great fan of Virginia Woolf either).

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Posted in I have no sympathy

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No one is stopping you. Write

Posted on Wed, 10 Sep 2014

No one is stopping you. Write and be wonderful.

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Posted in I Hate Being 19!

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Nothing is something and this

Posted on Thu, 04 Sep 2014

Nothing is something and this is dazzling.

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Posted in After Death

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