celticman

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I have 1120 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 1686156 times and 1126 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1363 of my 14,637 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1395 votes

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Jack O'Donnell

 

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Ugly Puggly 23

Molly made macaroni and cheese, with a side dish of oven chips for dinner. I stared out the window. She sat snug at the table and played Candy Crush...
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Gold cherry

Ugly Puggly 22

Ugly Puggly’s eldest sister, Sarah, was in the care-home at Yoker. He asked me to take him in the van. I couldn’t really say no, because he’d made us...
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Cherry

Ugly Puggly 21

Ugly Puggly was slicing his way through roof tiles with a long knife, with a sickle hook halfway down the blade. ‘Hi, watch whit yer daeing,’ Grey-...
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Cherry

Ugly Puggly 20

Ugly Puggly’s garden may have been a death trap with all that broken glass running down the slope, and the turning frame of a windmill, but the...
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Cherry

Ugly Puggly 19

The newsagent asked how my wife was doing, which put me on a downer. I guessed I was being racist, thinking Asian folk shouldn’t be trained to read...
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1363 of my comments have received 1395 Great Feedback votes

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four wishes are fine. five at

Posted on Mon, 13 Feb 2023

four wishes are fine. five at a push. poems make space for more. your stories always soar. as for your knees. That's hard cheese. 

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Posted in These are the Legs I Ordered.

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a bit of Edith. Always good

Posted on Wed, 15 Feb 2023

a bit of Edith. Always good to hear, but perhaps for the wrong/right reasons. 

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Posted in Non, je ne regrette rien! (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 4)

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I guess he's gone to the big

Posted on Thu, 26 Jan 2023

I guess he's gone to the big doggy Valhalla 

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Posted in Eric the Viking

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seems like the not to distant

Posted on Mon, 13 Feb 2023

seems like the not to distant future (30 years). 

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Posted in Waiting for the Flyers (Sally ten years on)

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I guess we're all essence,

Posted on Tue, 07 Feb 2023

I guess we're all essence, although I suspect some of us are nonsense. 

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Posted in The Edge of Heaven

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the green man is one of lore.

Posted on Mon, 06 Feb 2023

the green man is one of lore. You've flung a net and captured him with words. 

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Posted in Secrets Of A Green Man

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you've let yourself off the

Posted on Sat, 04 Feb 2023

you've let yourself off the leach here to great affect. 

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Posted in two paths (may be distressing)

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a dream tax is a devlish idea

Posted on Mon, 30 Jan 2023

a dream tax is a devlish idea. Why didn't the tories think of it? 

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Posted in The Dream Tax

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the colour is coming jenny,

Posted on Wed, 01 Feb 2023

the colour is coming jenny, but you brought it earlier. 

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Posted in England's Harmony

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there are very few fllms I've

Posted on Thu, 26 Jan 2023

there are very few fllms I've seen more than once. It's a Wonderful Life still stands true. Pottersville is nowsville. 

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Posted in Escaping to Serenity

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