celticman

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I have 1217 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 3636642 times and 1254 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1941 of my 16,208 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2006 votes

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Jack O'Donnell

 

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Cherry

ghost of who we've been

Balletic boy’s laughter grows shrill and keen Yawning electric doors drawing them into orbit Others stop for a fag in the taxi rank Fat blokes and...
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Cherry

raring

Why rara aves in the study of zoology? Glorious Pere Aleatorius Cast off the die Bequest no fixed reason or why No alee or nature shelter Spinning...
Cherry

carrel

You’re not there Side by side as we were Sitting stretched sometimes Sighing and nodding Chasing certain phrases Folded together newspaper pages Worn...

our house

Sometimes I feel really old. I’m sitting in the kitchen when my niece sneaks in the back door. I kid on I hadn’t heard the clatter of hurried feet,...

best days of our lives

Our meetings fraught I’m a fragile thing Flexing home-made wings Balancing on a lid of doubt Bent double with longing Recall our meeting? I come to...

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1941 of my comments have received 2006 Great Feedback votes

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gets you on the rebound.

Posted on Thu, 21 Jul 2016

gets you on the rebound. There's a jump in the point of view from the narrator to that of the dogs watching him, in the first parargraph. It's a forecful imaged. Just meat. But incongrouus. 

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Posted in Dogs

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Brilliant, but you gallop to

Posted on Thu, 07 Jul 2016

Brilliant, but you gallop to the ending. 

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Posted in Flowers (Part Two of Two) (IP)

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we're all weak and fragile.

Posted on Wed, 29 Jun 2016

we're all weak and fragile. That is our strength. 

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Posted in OverPowered

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I'm not even as simple as I

Posted on Tue, 28 Jun 2016

I'm not even as simple as I think.

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Posted in Outery (Salt of the Earth)

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if life is a classroom I'm in

Posted on Sun, 26 Jun 2016

if life is a classroom I'm in the wrong school. 

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Posted in Classroom

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in a circle, in a cycle, a

Posted on Sat, 25 Jun 2016

in a circle, in a cycle, a controlled storm of writing. 

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Posted in The First Step

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this is good, really good,

Posted on Wed, 15 Jun 2016

this is good, really good, but could be far better if you broke the three seperate narratives into seperate storylines of six, thirteen and eighteen. Slow down time. It's got an edge about it, which I like. 

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Posted in I didn't want to do it

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The movement and moments of

Posted on Tue, 14 Jun 2016

The movement and moments of silence and complicity make a sweet kind of electiricity. 

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Posted in Something Dead In The Road

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difficult question to answer,

Posted on Thu, 09 Jun 2016

difficult question to answer, but I guess poetry throws a light. 

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Posted in I Really Deserve

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Lovely and the denouement

Posted on Wed, 01 Jun 2016

Lovely and the denouement fits like a driver's glove. 

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Posted in SECRETS Part 2

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