celticman

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I have 1118 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 1680713 times and 1121 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1353 of my 14,601 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1383 votes

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Love Story 13

Da came through for his dinner. He glanced at us talking and laughing, grunted something, as he drowned the fish in salt and vinegar. Picked up his...
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Love Story 12

Mum had a cup of tea on the go and the chip pan on to make Da’s tea. Animal fat and incinerated starch creating a sticky vapour that clung to every...
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Cherry

Love Story 11

‘She would notice,’ I bit down on my bottom lip to show that was our conversation over. Ali recovered quicker than a whiplash victim cashing a cheque...
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Cherry

Love Story 10

Mum floated about smoking between the kitchen and living room. Da ruffled the sports’ pages of the Daily Record to show he was reading and didn’t...
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Cherry

Love Story 9

Jealousy was an accidental sin. Like stabbing your mum in the eye with a fork, while explaining something which you’d forgotten to mention, but she...
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1353 of my comments have received 1383 Great Feedback votes

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Sad in so many ways. Needs to

Posted on Fri, 15 Mar 2024

Sad in so many ways. Needs to be said, the madness. The gun laws. The madness of men that think they own women. Mysogny. Toxic cultures. Sparky Little Paula no more. 

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Posted in Sparkly Little Paula

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Thanks Jean. Your stories are

Posted on Fri, 15 Mar 2024

Thanks Jean. Your stories are your memories. They have helped us understand, not what it is to be you--that would be impossible-- but what it is to suffer a progressive illness that will kill us. We all die. Thanks for your goodbye. 

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Posted in The End - part 2

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nature laughs. I smile. 

Posted on Sun, 10 Mar 2024

nature laughs. I smile. 

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Posted in "Good Morning"

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efficiently bet [but] with

Posted on Sat, 09 Mar 2024

efficiently bet [but] with fewer people.

sounds very like the bullshit management speak, but nicely balanced by birth(day). 

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Posted in Keep the perspective

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It's always nice to meet a

Posted on Fri, 08 Mar 2024

It's always nice to meet a dead person. Hopefully, it remains on the page. I'm quite keen on ghosts and ghostly goings on. But I'd rather it was somebody else's goings on. 

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Posted in The Golden Fleece (Part Two of Two)

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amen to that. 

Posted on Tue, 05 Mar 2024

amen to that. 

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Posted in Blind Faith

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ah, pubs, prayer and witches,

Posted on Wed, 06 Mar 2024

ah, pubs, prayer and witches, may your potion not spoil. 

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Posted in The Golden Fleece (Part One of Two)

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wow, didn't understand a word

Posted on Wed, 06 Mar 2024

wow, didn't understand a word, but I'm agog. 

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Posted in The Road to Erehwon

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lovely pic, makes your heart

Posted on Mon, 04 Mar 2024

lovely pic, makes your heart sing, as your words do too. 

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Posted in Rousing Spring

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Being human, what pain, what

Posted on Mon, 26 Feb 2024

Being human, what pain, what peril! I really liked this story, which is not a story, more a condition, a human condition. I remember Bucks Fizz. The blonde girls were very pretty. I can't remember if the song got to number 1, but it was a nice-...

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Posted in Land of Make Believe

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