celticman

Primary tabs

I have 1180 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2650114 times and 1206 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1661 of my 15,564 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1693 votes

Trusted critic
celticman's picture
Jack O'Donnell

 

My stories

Cherry

Shadow

Dan’s birthday. Their bedroom stinks of stale fag smoke, booze and the acrid burn of hash. After giving him his present, and another kind of treat,...
Cherry

uncorrected proof two.

Woke up this morning, start the day with a prayer that my van will kick-over. It’s an Escort, underneath the grime, the faded red insignia of the...
1 likes
Cherry

Lodestone

“Woke Up This Morning” All sparse littered landmarks gone. All sparse littered landmarks grown. Trudging among missing standing stones. Trudging...

sense and insensibility

‘It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.’ Pride and Prejudice. Could she...
Cherry

free rites

You’ve come a long way From nits in your hair Suit yourself Tears of anger and shame When you went hame Mum would say ‘The world’s just that way’ It’...
1 likes

Pages

1661 of my comments have received 1693 Great Feedback votes

1 Vote

psalms [palms of hands]

Posted on Sat, 02 Aug 2014

psalms [palms of hands]

type out a candlestick

don;t don't

plenty or rain today and I know how the narrator feels.

Read full comment

Posted in A late summers day

1 Vote

Fracking bomb is captialised

Posted on Wed, 30 Jul 2014

Fracking bomb is captialised and uncapitalised. I share many of your concerns.

Read full comment

Posted in This life is a plastic wrap

1 Vote

yeh, who can afford to live

Posted on Sat, 12 Jul 2014

yeh, who can afford to live in DC? But you'd need a better imagination to figure house prices in London. 'buy a guy' sounds like an offer and not a preposition.

Oh, the Fab Four, sounds like some obscure band.

Read full comment

Posted in 17. Do You Believe In Magick?

1 Vote

start chiselling now lavadis

Posted on Fri, 13 Jun 2014

start chiselling now lavadis

Read full comment

Posted in Unbounders Away

1 Vote

not sure what a foofie valve

Posted on Wed, 02 Jul 2014

not sure what a foofie valve is, but the competition is hotting up.

Read full comment

Posted in Competing - Prologue 2

1 Vote

What I've read so far is

Posted on Wed, 02 Jul 2014

What I've read so far is intriguing.

Read full comment

Posted in Competing - Prologue 1

1 Vote

the use of quartz stone for

Posted on Fri, 23 May 2014

the use of quartz stone for freezing it one of those details that make everything so real. Look forward to more. Another great episode. I'm wondering what Ian's game is? Something about him getting drunk so easily points to some kind of illness?...

Read full comment

Posted in Ch4: May 15th part 2

1 Vote

what room? You lucky knob.

Posted on Sun, 11 May 2014

what room? You lucky knob. Fifteen and I was still working out what to do with it. 

Read full comment

Posted in The Walthamstow Bird

1 Vote

not sure about the Panda Gods

Posted on Sun, 11 May 2014

not sure about the Panda Gods and 'Dawn lighted the sky...' doesn't sound right, but apart from that some beautiful descriptions.

Read full comment

Posted in Triptych

1 Vote

yep, a close call with those

Posted on Sat, 03 May 2014

yep, a close call with those clowns. It was so close it was surreal. Great story. I'm not familiair with all those American shows, but I guess you nose that.

Read full comment

Posted in A Nose by Any Other Name

Pages