celticman

Primary tabs

I have 1205 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 3441669 times and 1237 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1849 of my 15,992 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1903 votes

Trusted critic
celticman's picture
Jack O'Donnell

 

My stories

Cherry
Poem of the week

dread-nought

Phrases orphaned and read cramming inside my head conversations of sounds drowning, clowning around silence of the heart dual rhythm apart...
1 likes
Cherry

standing in the queue to order a word kebab at my local takeaway

What would you like? Voice of division Voice of derision Vice setting tone Garnish with that? Waiting for a letter to arrive Swirly bluebottle battle...
1 likes
Cherry

huts 5 (rewrite)

The office is too warm. I sit squelched and sweating under the pall of Wullie the Poles’s Senoir Service , nose buried in files, eyes shifting...

doodles

Little bit thing lying in your sprawl Crying as if the world will end It might It might This very night But don’t you bite Settle on a secret There’s...
Cherry

in a better place

You stop thinking after a time Rubbery words from books not read Answers to life’s geography Warped fizzing can of physiology Keep it under you hate...

Pages

1849 of my comments have received 1903 Great Feedback votes

1 Vote

yes, hopefully it will always

Posted on Tue, 26 Jun 2018

yes, hopefully it will always be like this, or at least for a while.

Read full comment

Posted in a break from hoovering

1 Vote

watch out for cliches, like

Posted on Sun, 03 Jun 2018

watch out for cliches, like 'turned up trumps' (especially with the monstrosity of a Trump that trumps most cliches). wolf and stuck pig. rougher end. gotten so deep. phoney war. most trusted confidantes  

Read full comment

Posted in Through War & Adversity - Chapter 3 - Part I

1 Vote

I wanted to know more. Really

Posted on Thu, 26 Apr 2018

I wanted to know more. Really enjjoyed reading it. 

Read full comment

Posted in Something Hard Inside Him (Part 2)

1 Vote

slides from metaphor to

Posted on Thu, 12 Apr 2018

slides from metaphor to madness and evil with spring-heeled ease. 

Read full comment

Posted in Big Cat

1 Vote

yeh, captures that remebrance

Posted on Sat, 07 Apr 2018

yeh, captures that remebrance of things lost and people lost too in their own home and in their mind. 

Read full comment

Posted in Visiting Mom

1 Vote

amen to that and halleluiah

Posted on Sun, 01 Apr 2018

amen to that and halleluiah too because this is so true. 

Read full comment

Posted in Alternative Prayer of Remembrance, Easter 2018

1 Vote

you're mirroring Pirsig's

Posted on Sun, 25 Mar 2018

you're mirroring Pirsig's take in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. 

Read full comment

Posted in Mechanics & Artists

1 Vote

wonderfully perceptive

Posted on Wed, 21 Feb 2018

wonderfully perceptive storytelling. Kayla Stella Nue rings true. 

Read full comment

Posted in Jack Mutant - Which Way is Down? (part twelve)

1 Vote

bambi, but how much more

Posted on Sun, 21 Jan 2018

bambi, but how much more harrowing is the hundreds of millions of chickens and cattle that never experience daylight, in which a pen is their sun. A story well done. 

Read full comment

Posted in To Dance in the Shadows

1 Vote

memory is a lullaby. 

Posted on Fri, 19 Jan 2018

memory is a lullaby. 

Read full comment

Posted in Stars Still Shine Brightly

Pages