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I have 1216 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 3552597 times and 1252 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1894 of my 16,126 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1954 votes

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longest day

Everything different. Everything the same. Room minging of dampness. His bed and mine. I was convalescing after some long illness. I couldn’t...
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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...
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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...

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1894 of my comments have received 1954 Great Feedback votes

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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. 

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Posted in Do you?

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a year is nothing, but

Posted on Fri, 04 Nov 2016

a year is nothing, but sometimes it is something. 

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Posted in A Year

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summer cloaking turns...yes

Posted on Fri, 21 Oct 2016

summer cloaking turns...yes it's in the air. 

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Posted in A Tree Branch

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some interpretations of

Posted on Thu, 13 Oct 2016

some interpretations of -earth-history, I tend to agree with. What comes next? More of the same I'd guess. 

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Posted in testament: beneath the collonades

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noir always rains and grey

Posted on Wed, 12 Oct 2016

noir always rains and grey dayis n black and white in cinama pain, but here's to Gene, so long ago it seems obscene, but as you get older the frames get bolder and what stands true are the pieces of me and you. 

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Posted in It Rains in the Movies Too

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reminds me a wee bit about a

Posted on Sun, 04 Sep 2016

reminds me a wee bit about a girl that was taken to the doctors because she could never sit still. The doctor stuck some music on, and as they left the rooms, they watched her through a crack in the door. There's nothing wrong with her, 'she's a...

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Posted in The Land Where Dancing Was Forbidden

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yep, it rocks like a western

Posted on Fri, 26 Aug 2016

yep, it rocks like a western shoot-out. 

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Posted in The Crimson wake vii dark revelations

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wonderful story telling

Posted on Thu, 18 Aug 2016

wonderful story telling slinkygirl and really believeable narrator, or should I say narrators, because we are all more than one person, as to angels, well only the devil knows the truth of that. 

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Posted in Eighteen part one

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nice rhyme, nice time and a

Posted on Sat, 13 Aug 2016

nice rhyme, nice time and a Bermondsey boy returned to his roots and you've made his wrold known. 

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Posted in BERMONDSEY BOY (LONDON)

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thanks torscott, I'm not sure

Posted on Wed, 10 Aug 2016

thanks torscott, I'm not sure I can take any more misery. 

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Posted in Ernie at the edge of the world

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