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I have 1217 stories published in
7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 3630638 times
and 1252 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1938 of my 16,201 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2003 votes
My stories
Muddler
A puddle for a head. Do the maths. I’m in decline. But I feel fine. I’m human. That’s my failing. A life past caring. I’m glitter and glue. Tweaked...
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Hope Street
She loved that story of how they met. Telling it to her friend Julie on a rare night out made her smile and her voice shine. She is tender with...
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Lockhart 2
I wish things could have been different. The moon shimmered through the uncurtained windows giving a metallic glow to the room. I was splintered in...
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Lockhart
I’m looking back at notebooks we kept at Marxist school. It wasn’t called that of of course. It was a loose collective of forward looking people...
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nightshift
I flop out of bed steamrolled like a cartoon, two-dimensional with tiredness and stand watching her. The front door is locked, but the handle is a...
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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.
Read full commentPosted in Triptych 1: Mass
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.
Read full commentPosted in The Wardrobe
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.
Read full commentPosted in The March of the Dragons Chapter 2 (minus the last paragraph due to word count).
the world is a friendlier
Posted on Wed, 30 Dec 2015
the world is a friendlier place when we smile.
Read full commentPosted in Sometimes...
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?
Read full commentPosted in Glass is a Supercooled Liquid
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.
Read full commentPosted in the shared park
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...
Read full commentPosted in Plot without a story
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.
Read full commentPosted in 'Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'
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.
Read full commentPosted in oot ma heed.
panic indeed. simple sentence
Posted on Tue, 10 Nov 2015
panic indeed. simple sentence are good, but look for a bit more variety.
Read full commentPosted in Panic Room
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