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I have 1216 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 3567108 times and 1252 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1900 of my 16,132 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1963 votes

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Ugly Puggly 94

A crunching sound, metal on metal. My foot almost to the floor on the brake, motoring down Mountblow Hill. At the end of the fence where the...
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Ugly Puggly 93

I’m not sure how it came about that Dave and Darrell ended up saying they’d stay the night. Maybe it was because Darrell uncorked a bottle of white...
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Cherry

Ugly Puggly 92

It wasn’t often I was glad to get out and go to an AA meeting—it didn’t matter where it was, I’d have went—but I was glad to get out the house. I...
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Cherry

Ugly Puggly 91

I slept for a few hours, haunted by the ghost of Bradley Walsh, or I might just have left the telly on. But I gave up and got up about six. Molly was...
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Cherry

Ugly Puggly 90

Molly didn’t get up and say she was an alcoholic. She seemed content just to blend in and listen. She was no longer an AA virgin. I remembered the...
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1900 of my comments have received 1963 Great Feedback votes

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a lovely biography, Jenny . I

Posted on Sun, 09 Feb 2025

a lovely biography, Jenny . I alway look for snippets of mysely in other's memories. 

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Posted in School Reunion

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cauliflower theft is growing.

Posted on Sat, 08 Feb 2025

cauliflower theft is growing. glad they could nip it in the bud. 

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Posted in Paradise found

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I don't think many folk would

Posted on Sun, 09 Feb 2025

I don't think many folk would say dementia was a joke. 

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Posted in BITING THE BULLET.

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ah, a new level of worries. I

Posted on Fri, 07 Feb 2025

ah, a new level of worries. I think I want to be a cyborg now. The problem of facsimilie humans is they are designed mainly for sex work and some of them are children. What a fucked-up world we live in. 

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Posted in Parcel for You - Part 51

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hope is all we have,

Posted on Thu, 06 Feb 2025

hope is all we have, sometimes, literally, waiting for bread crumbs. 

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Posted in "Fragile"

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ah, poor mannikin, he'll

Posted on Wed, 05 Feb 2025

ah, poor mannikin, he'll never live it down. 

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Posted in The Body in the Library

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ice cream with no money. Now

Posted on Fri, 31 Jan 2025

ice cream with no money. Now there's a thought. Worse. Coffee, nearly £4. Wow. I'm going to hide under a bridge too. Keep going. Nearly done. 

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Posted in Parcel for You - Part 50

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forgetting the holocaust

Posted on Tue, 28 Jan 2025

Mark Hodkinson makes the same point, airy. When the last man or woman dies, the last witness. Deny. Deny. Deny. Forget. It's part of the curriculum in English schools. But then, why bother? A bit boring. A bit much. Of no relevance? The Holocaust...

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Posted in hiding in plain site

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the murdered become murderers

Posted on Tue, 28 Jan 2025

the murdered become murderers, victims of genoice, commit genocide. Nothing good to report. But how can we stay silent? 

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illusion is allusion. That's

Posted on Fri, 24 Jan 2025

illusion is allusion. That's the way memory work. Yeh! 

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Posted in Portal

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