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I have 1118 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 1680809 times and 1121 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1353 of my 14,603 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1383 votes

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Love Story 3

The furrows on my da’s forehead stood like stepping stones to his thoughts. The measured way he lowered the back paged of the Daily Record’s sports...
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Love Story 2

I wasn’t fully Baptised in the Spirit. Which to some church members meant I wasn’t baptised. Our prayer leader, Colin, spoke in tongues. So I was...
Cherry

Love story

My wee girlfriend had no neck, no shoulders, no breasts and untamed gorgon hair. Ali wasn’t really my girlfriend but lived beside me. She flicked her...
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Goatie 37

‘Tainted Love,’ I belted it out and gave it a kind of twist at the end for extra kudos that Mark Almond in his pomp couldn’t have managed. It helped...
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Goatie 36

Being tired, didn’t mean I’d sleep. I was always anxious about it, which didn’t help. I’d heard all the usual stuff about being too tired to sleep...
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1353 of my comments have received 1383 Great Feedback votes

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I've been on it. Only I haven

Posted on Sun, 11 Feb 2024

I've been on it. Only I haven't of course. But who can tell. Certainly not me. Wonderful story telling, as always. 

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Posted in The Portrush Flyer

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seems all too real. 

Posted on Sat, 10 Feb 2024

seems all too real. 

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Posted in Just like starting over

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there is a hollowing out of

Posted on Wed, 07 Feb 2024

there is a hollowing out of the middle-class. the working-class is already fucked. the centre cannolt hold? 

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Posted in Productivity is Dead

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it is a big deal because it's

Posted on Fri, 09 Feb 2024

it is a big deal because it's a big deal. I wonder if Spencer's excess exuberance will make it a bigger deal. 

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Posted in Parcel for You..Part 18

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phew, it's a toughie. No

Posted on Wed, 07 Feb 2024

phew, it's a toughie. No right or wrong answers. My mum went into a home. I think it was the right thing. But I was glad when she died. 

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Posted in The Home

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ah, you had me going there, I

Posted on Mon, 05 Feb 2024

ah, you had me going there, I thought it was Jesus, but it was an old freind, much the same thing in some circles. 

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Posted in We Watched from the Shore

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dreams are the stuff of

Posted on Tue, 06 Feb 2024

dreams are the stuff of nightmares, indeed. 

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Posted in "Oneiroi" (Greek myth - gods of dream)

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I do not share in your

Posted on Tue, 06 Feb 2024

I do not share in your adoration of the former Queen or Prince, now King, Charles. But hey, we're aw Jock Tamson's bairns. 

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Posted in Didn't See That Coming.

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quite worrying. Spencer is

Posted on Wed, 31 Jan 2024

quite worrying. Spencer is smarter than me, which is a given, but I'm spiteful too. Possibly a sociopath. I always want stuff. But to be fair to myself and Spencer, my mum has been dead for years, and I never tried to dig her up, well, not very...

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Posted in Parcel for you..Part 17

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that was fucking awful. Not

Posted on Sun, 04 Feb 2024

that was fucking awful. Not your journal and travel writing. Of course that was like a waterfall or some other metaphor for very nice. Almost as good as carrot jam. I'm toasting you and the Persians with a drink of non-alcholic alcohol. 

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Posted in Cherries and Dahlia Petals

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