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I have 1182 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2721210 times and 1208 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1672 of my 15,602 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1705 votes

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stone heart

Celia didn’t believe in vampires or religion. The idea of hell and all that guff made her snort and giggle with laughter. Her pals warned her,...
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Angel 68 (long night)

Late the night before, she’d walked down to the corner shop to get out of the house, took a notion, and brought a fish supper back with her. Adam...
Cherry

good tears and bad.

I used to have the run of the house, said Nanny Anna. When I was wee I was always with my mammie’s mammie and she kept me right. I always got my own...
Cherry

Angel 67 (night calls)

Angel didn’t want to think about the funeral. She tried to stop her tears, because it wasn’t fair on Adam. She didn’t want him to see her crying all...
Cherry

the search for the new Dalai Lama

After the death of His Holiness, the fourteen Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, the search for the fifteenth and final Dalai Lama began. In the partial...

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1672 of my comments have received 1705 Great Feedback votes

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sounds true. Many of us have

Posted on Sat, 22 Oct 2022

sounds true. Many of us have much the same problem. But why is it all about the sisters? Brothers can care too? I'm replyng as if it was a real problem. That means the writring is great. 

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Posted in Dr Agnes

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we suffer,but rarely in

Posted on Fri, 21 Oct 2022

we suffer,but rarely in silence. I liked this lots. The surreal elements blend in wonderfully, but when the narrator had no money for food, she bought beer and other items, including singlng squid. That threw me. Not the singing squid. But having...

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Posted in THE SQUID SISTERS - Part 2

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Peace and best wishes too.

Posted on Fri, 21 Oct 2022

Peace and best wishes too. Who am I? What am I? it come up a lot in my wrting. It is in fact my writing. To be old is to be invsible. I passed an old woman in the old folk's home sitting in a chiar looking at nothing much. That's me. That's you....

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Posted in Joining up my rainbow memory dots - 1978 I help the homeless in Belfast

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let's hope you don't need

Posted on Fri, 21 Oct 2022

let's hope you don't need them. I'm old enough to remember The Winter of Discontent and electricity rationing. 

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Posted in Prepare. Prepared. Preparing. .

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we bin stuff and we bin the

Posted on Wed, 19 Oct 2022

we bin stuff and we bin the people that bin stuff. tough, but true. 

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Posted in Railway - a true memory poem

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beautiful scarecrows. we live

Posted on Tue, 18 Oct 2022

beautiful scarecrows. we live in interesting times was meant to be a veiled insult. Not here. 

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Posted in Interesting Times

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I remember the days before

Posted on Wed, 19 Oct 2022

I remember the days before google was a word. And phones took two-pence pieces. 

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Posted in The Day Before the Internet

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yep. exactly. except JCB has

Posted on Mon, 17 Oct 2022

yep. exactly. except JCB has ties ot the Tory Party and sponsored Brexit, which was dumb, dumb, dumb. 

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Posted in Gladys Aylward 2 - How Gladys helped her entire family

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maybe we all trill and try to

Posted on Mon, 17 Oct 2022

maybe we all trill and try to take possesion of the world. 

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Posted in Centre of its own Universe

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JCB, heavy goods with

Posted on Mon, 17 Oct 2022

JCB, heavy goods with caterplliar tracks for digging and moving earth. 

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Posted in Gladys Aylward 2 - How Gladys helped her entire family

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