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I have 1121 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 1708011 times and 1127 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1374 of my 14,675 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1408 votes

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Cherry

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I lived in the armpits of the world, but it wasn’t like me to leave work early. I’d a good job at Boots the Chemist, with prospects, but my skin...
Cherry

Uncle John and Jimmy.

Da didn’t believe in noise. He’d be sitting at the grill with the wireless on the window making toast and listening to Radio Athlone. Even from the...
Cherry

The Omen

Mum and Da weren’t to know that Damien would become synonymous with the devil. David Seltzer the screenwriter for supernatural horror The Omen ,...
Cherry

Damian, Damien and demons.

Mum was aged thirty when she had me. She’d already lost her first-born son, which sounds like a form of carelessness, as if she’d put him in a reed...
Cherry

Ernie Platt 1940—2015

Ernie Platt 1940—2015 Ernie was born in 1940. No football, no rugby, no golf, and the Scottish Grand National won by ‘no race run’, but at least...

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1374 of my comments have received 1408 Great Feedback votes

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your words are dancing, even

Posted on Sat, 01 Oct 2022

your words are dancing, even prancing.  

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Posted in high seas

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yes, you are hiding them in

Posted on Sun, 25 Sep 2022

yes, you are hiding them in poems, but they spill over to the spoken work. well done. 

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Posted in The Ghost of The Bird

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jail-out--of-free cards are

Posted on Fri, 30 Sep 2022

jail-out--of-free cards are rare, but I think you've paid your way. 

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Posted in Chemo 10

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A gullitone and let them eat

Posted on Fri, 30 Sep 2022

A gullitone and let them eat cake injunction might be enough to not muddle on and through, I'm there with you. 

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Posted in Small Town Insurrection

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I think Puitn is turning the

Posted on Fri, 30 Sep 2022

I think Puitn is turning the screw with energy, but his tactics don't cover over our goverrments incompotence or lack of democratic validity. 

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Posted in Crunch Time (The Unwanted Revolution – By pricing!) (Or is it more of a Coup D’etat than a Revolution?) (By the Energy Companies? The new rulers of western (or is it just lap dog Britain?) society?) by Alfred N.Muggins : Part 2

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ah, like the narrator, I want

Posted on Tue, 27 Sep 2022

ah, like the narrator, I want to know more. 

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Posted in In the Vale of the Shadow King (Part Three of Six)

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different people, the same

Posted on Sat, 24 Sep 2022

different people, the same person. 

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Posted in Sha-leigh - one of a series of my make-believe snapshots

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makes sense for the party of

Posted on Fri, 23 Sep 2022

makes sense for the party of the rich to reward the rich for being rich. 

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Posted in The State Of The Nation (A New Star Prime Minister Has Arrived!) by Alfred N.Muggins (political and social commentator!)

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the edge of you. the edge of

Posted on Thu, 22 Sep 2022

the edge of you. the edge of me. the left behind ones. 

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Posted in The Wanderer

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it certainnly was lucid

Posted on Thu, 22 Sep 2022

it certainnly was lucid poetry. 

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Posted in In Lucid Dreams

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