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I have 1203 stories published in
7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 3348141 times
and 1234 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1820 of my 15,913 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1870 votes
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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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poppy's last shout
Cast adrift. Poppy’s single room in the hospital annex is sparse and milky as a bone. The umbilical cord of the machine by her bed works almost...
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The big Malky
Frank took two days to hitchhike down to London. It was all new. A night sleeping in a plastic bin bag sheltering outside a Tube station, with what...
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bit about writing books,
Posted on Tue, 13 Dec 2016
bit about writing books, writing block, finding a publisher and utopism. I particularly liked this idea: 'Power and competition in politics and business greed were sidelined and made unfashionable. Work was necessary but it was not to rule life...
Read full commentPosted in History Of The Creadds (Ch.13d)
if you look through your
Posted on Tue, 29 Nov 2016
if you look through your fingers it seems very much like this world, but instead of space travel, simple air travel. that's a good thing to base the future on, being like the past, but with speedbumps. .
Read full commentPosted in Is Space The Final Frontier? Who Will The Man Of The Future Be? (Ch.13c)
I prefer the sun, but I guess
Posted on Sun, 27 Nov 2016
I prefer the sun, but I guess I'm not the only one. Without rain I fear makind would be history.
Read full commentPosted in Rain third position
30 story in 30 days, you're
Posted on Thu, 24 Nov 2016
30 story in 30 days, you're having a fucking laugh! keep at it.
Read full commentPosted in BIG JOHN.
so many invisible days, in so
Posted on Sat, 19 Nov 2016
so many invisible days, in so many ways.
Read full commentPosted in No Hand to Hold.
the sweet and the sour the
Posted on Fri, 18 Nov 2016
the sweet and the sour the bouquet of forgotten flower, the aftertaste, that's what makes this poem so great.
Read full commentPosted in I don't really like Hardy's Legacy
yes, I agree, echo it is for
Posted on Wed, 16 Nov 2016
yes, I agree, echo it is for me.
Read full commentPosted in Echo's
a stout heart and a wet mouth
Posted on Wed, 16 Nov 2016
a stout heart and a wet mouth, right enough. But I don't like the start: 'Paidi’s hurled face of wrath.' I'd guess you'd have to put it another way to get the man and his moods right.
Read full commentPosted in CC 68: The Health of the Salmon
I really enjoyed reading this
Posted on Sat, 12 Nov 2016
I really enjoyed reading this. The only false note I detected was you saying you were 'socially withdrawn' I prefer the more striaghtforward, I was shy. Reminds me a bit of Jackie Kay going to the same kind of meetings, but for socialists, and...
Read full commentPosted in Autobiography - To Revolution Singing
there's a lot of pain here,
Posted on Sat, 12 Nov 2016
there's a lot of pain here, brimmng and overflowing words that stain our minds and we have no refrain, because, to be honest, we do the same cruel things again and again.
Read full commentPosted in Do you?
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