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I have 1221 stories published in
7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 3800597 times
and 1261 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1987 of my 16,343 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2057 votes
My stories
huts 1 (rewrite)
The security guard with a pencil moustache, slides open the window of the lodge at the hospital gates and addresses me as ‘sir’. I’m given directions...
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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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lost some narrative structure
Posted on Fri, 07 Feb 2020
lost some narrative structure here. Compelling as it is, turned into a rant. You can't hate your reader for not knowing. Not experiencing. Teach us in truth by telling a story that resonates in our hearts. The simple truth I understand is most-...
Read full commentPosted in Recognizing a Hero In Addict (7 cont&8)
this is great. I enjoyed
Posted on Tue, 14 Jan 2020
this is great. I enjoyed reading it. I can see how so much training would make you incredibly fit, but, ironically, have such adverse affect on your bones. The killer line is it became drudgery. Just another way of making a buck. Amen to that. I...
Read full commentPosted in An Unexpected Change
yes, nothing to do with
Posted on Fri, 03 Jan 2020
yes, nothing to do with global warming - apparently!
Read full commentPosted in You can’t cling to something once it has gone.
happy sad. sad happy,
Posted on Mon, 23 Dec 2019
happy sad. sad happy, sometimes we settle for the crappy.
Read full commentPosted in The Day Before Christmas
good story, but the changing
Posted on Tue, 17 Dec 2019
good story, but the changing point of view weakens it. I'd suggest make it his story or her story.
Read full commentPosted in Strings of Desire (A working title)
200 years doesn't sound like
Posted on Mon, 16 Dec 2019
200 years doesn't sound like rapid change, but I guess it's all a matter of perspective.
Read full commentPosted in Creative Media and Sales : Ch.16d The Decline of Civilisation
Lovely story and true too.
Posted on Wed, 11 Dec 2019
Lovely story and true too.
Read full commentPosted in Author's Day
I'm a bit like you, I've
Posted on Sat, 30 Nov 2019
I'm a bit like you, I've heard of J.K.Rowling. Haven't read any Harry Potter. But I have hear the myth around how she was working in an Edinburgh coffeeshop...being turned down 12 times is nothing. I've heard of Sheldon, watched a bit of The Big...
Read full commentPosted in Jim Parsons and J.K. Rowling.
gritty and grimy, so he's a
Posted on Sat, 30 Nov 2019
gritty and grimy, so he's a cop, interesting. terriific wring. whose story is it, Gallacher or Crowe's? If it's Crowe's the descripton of him given (change of point of view) by Gallacher needs a bit of work and kinda jams the narrative.
Read full commentPosted in A Quality of inertia (WIP)
Word origin of 'vade mecum'
Posted on Tue, 26 Nov 2019
Word origin of 'vade mecum'
C17: from Latin, literally: go with me
I will walk with you a while in your writing. Alan Bennet's idea of reading as a hand held out which you grasp. Munch's scream is so popular because it allows for...
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