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I have 1126 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 1724538 times and 1133 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1381 of my 14,708 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1416 votes

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Ugly Puggly 79

I used my good (non-wanking hand) to angle the telly. But I wasn’t sure how it worked. Whatever channel I flicked it onto seemed to drone extended...
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Ugly Puggly 78

Ugly Puggly told me a drunk was like a Russian novelist. Always close to tears. I rambled on. ‘I don’t believe in God or that kinda stuff,’ I told...
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Ugly Puggly 77

When they left for Drymen, I went to the shop and bought a bottle of Vladistock. I cracked it open on the main road and took a quick slug. It burned...
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Ugly Puggly 76

Molly made toast, but she’d only brown bread which was like cheating at breakfast, and eating low-calorie cardboard because it was good for you...
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Ugly Puggly 75

Some dirty bastard had been sick in the close, on the first steps to the half-landing. It stuck to the wall and the pitted surface of the stair. A...
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1381 of my comments have received 1416 Great Feedback votes

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It's not as simple as we lost

Posted on Sat, 05 Aug 2023

It's not as simple as we lost the propaganda war, but sometimes it feels like it. 

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Posted in 0.1%

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true norh n my ways  And that

Posted on Fri, 04 Aug 2023

true norh n my ways  And that's praise. 

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Posted in North of Taiga

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I was saying much the same

Posted on Mon, 31 Jul 2023

I was saying much the same thiing today. Kids, a while back, jumping on a bouncy castle. It wasn't that I noticed. It was the snacks left melting in the sun. All kinds of chocolate and sweets adn sugary juice. In our day it would have been the...

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Posted in Mucky Maureen

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second life is no life. But I

Posted on Tue, 01 Aug 2023

second life is no life. But I guess people do opt out for various reasons. When we lose our memories we lose ourselves. That's why dementia is such a dreadful, perhaps the worst, disease. 

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Posted in Second Life

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you've a creative eye, under

Posted on Wed, 02 Aug 2023

you've a creative eye, under the spring sky, jenny. 

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Posted in Under Late Spring Sky

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we've all got a Rebekkha.

Posted on Sat, 29 Jul 2023

we've all got a Rebekkha. Miine was Pauline Moriarity. Wow. she was a wow. Maybe she still is. I was never a wow. Beautifully done. 

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Posted in Cities contemplating jazz

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poetry rains in torrents.

Posted on Wed, 26 Jul 2023

poetry rains in torrents. indeed Jenny it does. 

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Posted in When All I Need Is Artistry

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nicely done. sometimes it's

Posted on Wed, 26 Jul 2023

nicely done. sometimes it's better to be nice than to be correct. 

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Posted in Rakia Maria – Part Two of Two

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Great story. I've not doubt

Posted on Tue, 25 Jul 2023

Great story. I've not doubt Raika Maria will turn out to be a witch Better collect the bonfire. 

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Posted in Rakia Maria - Part One of Two

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crows and snakes are those

Posted on Mon, 24 Jul 2023

crows and snakes are those creatures we attribut murder to, but it's really us, as you show, as you know. 

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Posted in A Murder of Crows

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