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I have 1211 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 3491021 times and 1244 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1868 of my 16,050 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1924 votes

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Jack O'Donnell

 

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angry-white man

BNP cynicism. First came the drunken Paddy. Then the grasping Jew. Smelly Paki. Polish Plasterer Romanian rats Who’s to blame for our nation’s shame...

the fifth day

It was the fifth hour, after the day of rest, when in he went down. A great silence filled the trees and dust lay over all the land. In the shadows,...
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agonising questions

Pain we get free? No’ well? – some liberty! Get down on your knees and pray You don’t have to be that way It’s no easy becoming Freud Asking question...
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snakes and adders

After spending our dinner money on sweets, Brendy nipped across from St. Andy’s school and bought two single fags from McLaren’s newsagent for the...
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the ring of truth

We knew too much of life How to act How to react Kick your cunt in Extraordinary stroke of luck What the fuck? See – you looking at me? Up until then...

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1868 of my comments have received 1924 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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