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I have 1195 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 3209892 times and 1223 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1784 of my 15,983 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1826 votes

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Cherry

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Had a few days to think about how wronged I’d been by the court system. Off work. Phoned in sick cough, cough, with the flu that needed careful...
Cherry

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The day hadn’t started the way I’d hoped. I wasn’t late for work, which would have been a bad thing. But I was late for court, which wasn’t too bad a...
Cherry

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Judge Morrie adjourned for lunch. Just as the big cheese advocate said he would. Stood outside on the stone steps with Myra. Lawyers and normal folk...

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‘You were in the wrong waiting room.’ The lawyer shook my hand, introduced himself as John Cameron, Charlie’s advocate. ‘I’m sorry,’ Myra apologised...
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Gold cherry

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Nobody expected Charlie Dean to be a success. Big teeth that flashed like butcher’s knives, he had the kind of bully-boy laugh that made you want to...
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1784 of my comments have received 1826 Great Feedback votes

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beautiful and true -god knows

Posted on Tue, 05 Jan 2016

beautiful and true -god knows it's true and so do you. 

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Posted in Triptych 1: Mass

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the afforntery of that Clare,

Posted on Mon, 04 Jan 2016

the afforntery of that Clare, watch out for the creak of the wardrobe and soon she'll no be there. I like this.

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Posted in The Wardrobe

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 Vietnamese with a waiting [t

Posted on Mon, 14 Dec 2015

 Vietnamese with a waiting [t]Taxi driver

 he [w]Winced.

characterisation and descriptive prose are great. 

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Posted in The March of the Dragons Chapter 2 (minus the last paragraph due to word count).

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the world is a friendlier

Posted on Wed, 30 Dec 2015

the world is a friendlier place when we smile. 

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Posted in Sometimes...

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in case they hurt themselves,

Posted on Sun, 20 Dec 2015

in case they hurt themselves, you see, I see clearly, but what can you do when there's only me and you? 

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Posted in Glass is a Supercooled Liquid

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good ending in a sickish sort

Posted on Wed, 25 Nov 2015

good ending in a sickish sort of way, sums the story up well. I can't say I've noticed anything like that in my local forays through the park, but I guess as it's always pissing down that helps dampen people's rogering forays. 

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Posted in the shared park

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I didn't think he was very

Posted on Sat, 21 Nov 2015

I didn't think he was very funny. I'll rephrase that, he wasn't funny, but I didn't think you got jailed for it. That worries me. I'm packing my cardigans into a bag now. Ready to flee to England where there's a lot of funny folk. Just another...

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Posted in Plot without a story

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the mastery of time seems to

Posted on Sat, 14 Nov 2015

the mastery of time seems to be your line. I guess Switzerland isn't much of a date, especially if you've left life too late, but what wonderful recall, it's a lesson to us all. 

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Posted in 'Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'

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time spins and

Posted on Wed, 11 Nov 2015

time spins and circumnavigates and I guess we place our bet of whose to blame on the table, never thinking our number will come up. 

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Posted in oot ma heed.

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panic indeed. simple sentence

Posted on Tue, 10 Nov 2015

panic indeed. simple sentence are good, but look for a bit more variety. 

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Posted in Panic Room

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