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I have 1203 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 3311360 times and 1234 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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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...
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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’...
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the honourable member for Witney

Best thinking comes from not thinking The proud voice is the loud voice Pontification of what need to be done The great nob-game of bob-a-job To keep...
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poet on the rack

Philosophers and poets discuss how it is to be More tree than tree Point of view fucks off to Timbuktu Imagination pickled on a straight line In...

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1812 of my comments have received 1861 Great Feedback votes

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I remember the brothers well.

Posted on Tue, 06 Oct 2015

I remember the brothers well. My neighbours Dingle Dingleberrry were distintly related to the Dingleberry and had troule finding his toes. The Steampowered Valet disrober was a boon as it allowed him to look the other way when it was put into...

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Posted in A Victorian Gentleman and the Steam Age

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primal beauty. 

Posted on Mon, 05 Oct 2015

primal beauty. 

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Posted in Starry, Starry Night

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an interesting insight into

Posted on Fri, 02 Oct 2015

an interesting insight into what it means to be a boxer, both inside and outside the ring. 

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Posted in The Boxing Match From A Boxer's Perspective

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you goose tina, this poem

Posted on Thu, 01 Oct 2015

you goose tina, this poem flies. 

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Posted in Come October

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as[]well as some brooches, 

Posted on Mon, 28 Sep 2015

as[]well as some brooches, 

to invisible, microscopic bacteria [he can't see them or sense them [cut]

he was in fact meditating [cut, you're telling the reader something he is aware of [cut?]

never[]mind

lovely, really...

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Posted in Jake Mutant - Chapter Two

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poor Jeremy I think the media

Posted on Sat, 26 Sep 2015

poor Jeremy I think the media assault will make him the ploughed field. Good to see Labour finally having some policies that don't mirror tit-for-tat Tory policy eg Miliband's pre-election boast to go with the Tory spending cuts if elected. Fuck...

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Posted in For the love of Jeremy Corbyn

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interesting, I was just

Posted on Thu, 24 Sep 2015

interesting, I was just thinking about something similiar (but different). How each generation weighs time. Trees by their weight of leaves offers the obivious analogy, are we so different? 

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Posted in My Father's House

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the sunset must have invaded

Posted on Tue, 22 Sep 2015

the sunset must have invaded the sky an orange.' I know what you mean, [the sun makes the sky glow orange] a little more care and you'll be right up there. 

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Posted in Running on Desire - The Boat

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there's a kind of coming back

Posted on Mon, 14 Sep 2015

there's a kind of coming back I like, an echo of the past and present, the begining and end. 

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Posted in The sound of my love

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you carry on too Jeanne we

Posted on Thu, 03 Sep 2015

you carry on too Jeanne we just muck in and write as we do. 

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Posted in dread-nought

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