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I have 1212 stories published in
7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 3497427 times
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1874 of my 16,059 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1931 votes
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Love Story 21
Da groaned and leaned on me as he lowered himself to the floor and shut his eyes. ‘Don’t die, Da,’ I wailed as he sucked in each breath in and blew...
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Love Story 20
I wore my smartest clothes and shined my shoes before we set off to the Police Station at Hall Street. Nobody else hurrying along the canal in the...
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Love Story 19
I piled my shirt and trousers on the chair beside the window and crept shivering into bed with my socks on. Tossed and turned. Yawned, throwing my...
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children of the coming apocalypse
[Playtime] Close your eyes Cover your ears Don’t look for a reason To have reason And we’ll be in the clear We’re children of the coming apocalypse...
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Love Story 18
I zigzagged down the hill towards the phone box. It always smelled of pish as if somebody had used it a toilet, which they had from the damp stains...
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mum is always best.
Posted on Thu, 08 Jan 2026
mum is always best.
Read full commentPosted in Gone But Not Forgotten
It makes me mad enough to
Posted on Sat, 13 Dec 2025
It makes me mad enough to write a letter to the Daily Mail about the segregation of schools. Nobody believes in anything any more. All children go to interdemonational nurseries or they're just left about street corners with their fags. In our...
Read full commentPosted in A Hare’s Breath 3 - The Accident
makes sense of a kind of
Posted on Thu, 11 Dec 2025
makes sense of a kind of sadness.
Read full commentPosted in The Day, Every Day
ah, GlosKat, I think I need
Posted on Wed, 10 Dec 2025
ah, GlosKat, I think I need an eye test. Ludwig Wittgenstein: What a picture must have in common with reality in order to represent it after its manner—rightly or falsely—is its form of representation. We see what we think we see, even if we don'...
Read full commentPosted in R&D 5
violence is believing it's
Posted on Thu, 11 Dec 2025
violence is believing it's necessary as you show.
Read full commentPosted in Variable
cheers TJ, who knows what
Posted on Wed, 10 Dec 2025
cheers TJ, who knows what path we take? Not Abraham. Not me.
Read full commentPosted in R&D 5
I wondered where Pudgy
Posted on Tue, 09 Dec 2025
I wondered where Pudgy Maxwell's van went to. He might well have sold it to your dad. He'd drag two seats out of the pub, with a punter standing in the middle. Bit shuggly. But good enough to get you to the Celtic match. Pope John Paul II...
Read full commentPosted in A Hare's Breath 1 - The Van
aye and aye, sadly true.
Posted on Tue, 09 Dec 2025
aye and aye, sadly true. where are we noo?
Read full commentPosted in The Big Picture
the poet in you, indeed,
Posted on Thu, 04 Dec 2025
the poet in you, indeed, Jenny.
Read full commentPosted in Happiness Of Anticipating Inspiration
to be out and about is poetry
Posted on Tue, 02 Dec 2025
to be out and about is poetry to bring home.
Read full commentPosted in "Winter Constitutional"
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