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I have 1214 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 3507140 times and 1249 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1881 of my 16,080 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1940 votes

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The Little Lady

I think I deserved a little whisky and water to help me through the interviews. We’d agency doing the cleaning, but I’d told my wife it would be...
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Windfall.

We had a great interest in ghosts, prompted by a fear of being called a shitebag for turning down a dare when we were younger. In a less than spooky...
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Missed You.

My junkie girlfriend sold her body to feed her habit. ‘I’m no doing any harm,’ she said. ‘I sold myself tae you. Look how that fucking worked oot?’ I...
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Poem of the week

Tilly cut loose from the day

Tilly cut loose from the day Brightness like a red balloon Utterances dumbstruck with gravity Details don’t matter Holding onto her giggling A...
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Uncle John's Popemobile.

Black specks were moving on the stacked plates of uneaten leftovers and the casual smears of a man that had tried to tidy up. Casualties lay on the...
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1881 of my comments have received 1940 Great Feedback votes

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new world order sounds

Posted on Fri, 20 Feb 2026

new world order sounds remarkably like the old. 

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Posted in Welcome to the New World (with musical accompaniment!)

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too soft for the contest. too

Posted on Tue, 17 Feb 2026

too soft for the contest. too bright to care. 

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Posted in Shadow Boxers in A Back Street

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I hope the grimmoire insn't

Posted on Tue, 17 Feb 2026

I hope the grimmoire insn't in Brummie or we're all fucked? 

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Posted in Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (10)

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Not a cat and dog kind of

Posted on Tue, 17 Feb 2026

Not a cat and dog kind of story, but reminds me of some loch ness longings. But it might just have been a tea-towel I owned. 

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Posted in Auntie Nessie

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looks like another train hop

Posted on Tue, 17 Feb 2026

looks like another train hop or jump? 

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Posted in "Art of Trouble" 9

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lovely in some many ways. 

Posted on Thu, 12 Feb 2026

lovely in some many ways. 

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Posted in Tom All Alone (12)

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like the fog, I'd forgotten

Posted on Thu, 12 Feb 2026

like the fog, I'd forgotten much, but was soon wrapped in the tale. Great ending. 

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Posted in Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (9)

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weird is sometime good. But

Posted on Tue, 10 Feb 2026

weird is sometime good. But not always. 

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Posted in Let's Make Believe

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that's a maybe. I'm mates

Posted on Mon, 09 Feb 2026

that's a maybe. I'm mates with Bono. 

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Posted in Michael

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Mr Muggins may well have lost

Posted on Mon, 09 Feb 2026

Mr Muggins may well have lost his foodwear but he did find Trumpenstien  madness. Unfortunately both are rather wearing. 

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Posted in Glastonbury Festival 26 - 29th June 2025 Provokes Memories Of His Own Attendance In 1987 by Alfred N.Muggins

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