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I have 1202 stories published in
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My stories have been read 3276415 times
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1800 of my 15,850 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1847 votes
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simple men
‘Nothing to shout about,’ said Lawson. ‘Nothing to worry about either. Quick in and out job.’ He fidgeted, adjusting the specs on his nose. No matter...
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tender souls
The specialist spoke of blastocyst grading, vesicles, stress pathways, embryo culture, fertilised eggs and the importance of maternal diet in the...
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Crow no more.
Did you see mum in her prime Dodder as if in fine wine Totter on a lost wee soul Garment half-clean, rents unseen Half-smile at familiar faces Where...
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Resurrection
Rooted in dry earth Up above Fragments of hymns Drift in skirlin’ wind Cock crows Quiet as Sunday Faith in ghostly bones through the misty town...
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Best that money can buy
‘You done it yet?’ Al asked. He’d been thirty for a long time now and it was beginning to show around his mouth, which seemed to get thinner every...
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oh, sad twist at the end. I'm
Posted on Fri, 28 Nov 2014
oh, sad twist at the end. I'm not able to judge whether it's the standard iambic pentameter, or whether Melvolio is a play on Malvolio Twelth Night, but your skill is remarkable. I wish you well with this.
Read full commentPosted in A Star Crossed Story
good story, flows well, ends
Posted on Fri, 28 Nov 2014
good story, flows well, ends well -well for some!
Read full commentPosted in Kevin Smiled
well written, I was wondering
Posted on Thu, 27 Nov 2014
well written, I was wondering how she could have an organism when dead (which is a physiological impossibility) then she came 'alive' again in the bathtub. Interesting.
Read full commentPosted in The (Nec)Romancer Part 1
yep. gritty and groan filled
Posted on Thu, 13 Nov 2014
yep. gritty and groan filled and full of dis-ease, but truth often hurts.
Read full commentPosted in not quite AA, but only 12 steps to the bar
cheers scratch, just playing
Posted on Fri, 07 Nov 2014
cheers scratch, just playing with words. Thanks Shannan, I wish I knew what it meant too. Often (more often than I'd like to admit) I've not got a clue whant a poem is and more often than that what it all means. I'm pretty good at deciphering...
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fall in love ju[s]t by its
Posted on Fri, 31 Oct 2014
fall in love ju[s]t by its words' I often wonder what poety is (and is not).
Read full commentPosted in A Poets Mystery Lane
Home from school for the
Posted on Tue, 28 Oct 2014
Home from school for the Summer, I had been enjoying a leisurely reintroduction to home, taking my dog Barney out for walks [Back from school > that way you don't use home twice in the same sentence]
from los parentes [should this be...
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cast (not callously caste)
Posted on Tue, 21 Oct 2014
cast (not callously caste) although caste is perhaps nearer the mark. I'm sure everything will turn out wonderfully well when your shoplifting skills get better. I thought paracetamol screwed up your liver (not your kidneys) and was usually fatal...
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good twist and it does seem
Posted on Tue, 21 Oct 2014
good twist and it does seem to match fairy lore, perhaps the last paragraph is unnecessary?
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Nature is as precise an
Posted on Wed, 01 Oct 2014
Nature is as precise an accountant as any. [delete last two words]
Wonderful story and the telling it of it wasn't bad either, spicy and full of sausage (oh dear, couldn't help that pun).
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