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I have 1200 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 3272666 times and 1229 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1798 of my 15,836 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1845 votes

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the case for the prosecution

Every morning Papa Adams opened early to catch workmen before they started the early shift in the yard. He pushed her belly out like a pram and...
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school project

you purl kisses into a corner of eternity my body an empty bucket filling slowly from the tingle of teeth feet in a slow dance of time swell and the...
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everything I once knew

Everything I once knew Grows apart and forgotten Like some dull stick Scarred and mutilated. The need to believe in – hope Hopeless Hazy eyed and...
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Bible John 2

I clutch the handle of my holdall, with my purse secure inside. ‘I’m not sure,’ I say. I hold a leaflet out as a shield. ‘Perhaps she’ll get some of...
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Bible John

‘Why do they call you Bible John?’ I ask. ‘They’re just takin the cunt,’ he says. Then apologises a few seconds later for his language. I was given...

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1798 of my comments have received 1845 Great Feedback votes

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some interpretations of

Posted on Thu, 13 Oct 2016

some interpretations of -earth-history, I tend to agree with. What comes next? More of the same I'd guess. 

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Posted in testament: beneath the collonades

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noir always rains and grey

Posted on Wed, 12 Oct 2016

noir always rains and grey dayis n black and white in cinama pain, but here's to Gene, so long ago it seems obscene, but as you get older the frames get bolder and what stands true are the pieces of me and you. 

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Posted in It Rains in the Movies Too

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reminds me a wee bit about a

Posted on Sun, 04 Sep 2016

reminds me a wee bit about a girl that was taken to the doctors because she could never sit still. The doctor stuck some music on, and as they left the rooms, they watched her through a crack in the door. There's nothing wrong with her, 'she's a...

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Posted in The Land Where Dancing Was Forbidden

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yep, it rocks like a western

Posted on Fri, 26 Aug 2016

yep, it rocks like a western shoot-out. 

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Posted in The Crimson wake vii dark revelations

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wonderful story telling

Posted on Thu, 18 Aug 2016

wonderful story telling slinkygirl and really believeable narrator, or should I say narrators, because we are all more than one person, as to angels, well only the devil knows the truth of that. 

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Posted in Eighteen part one

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nice rhyme, nice time and a

Posted on Sat, 13 Aug 2016

nice rhyme, nice time and a Bermondsey boy returned to his roots and you've made his wrold known. 

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Posted in BERMONDSEY BOY (LONDON)

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thanks torscott, I'm not sure

Posted on Wed, 10 Aug 2016

thanks torscott, I'm not sure I can take any more misery. 

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Posted in Ernie at the edge of the world

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yeh, I sometimes imagine

Posted on Tue, 02 Aug 2016

yeh, I sometimes imagine places are like batteries or reservoirs, holding onto energy. 

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Posted in The Cobbe house iv Aftermath

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good luck with this ladylily.

Posted on Sun, 31 Jul 2016

good luck with this ladylily. 

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Posted in Bermondsey to Basra Battlefronts.

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I'm a bit dense too seashore.

Posted on Sun, 24 Jul 2016

I'm a bit dense too seashore. clumsy, a form of justification, almost a cliche, a throwway liine that comes before, Allahu Akbar and throws away lives. I've actually convinced myself that's what I meant, whiich is quite impressive for me. 

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Posted in Tribe

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