celticman
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My stories have been read 1719952 times
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1380 of my 14,692 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1415 votes
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grab a granny
Chris walked slowly towards Dalmuir along the canal path, watching the light fade on the water, an open can of Pale Ale half in and out of his coat...
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ravensbruck 5
The prisoners filed into the bunker. Dorothea Binz waited for the paperwork and watched the guards, the dogs panting at their side, pulling the...
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ravensbruck 4
It was still dark outside when they came for them. The whole close heard them running up the stairs. Bertha had already prepared a small bag, with...
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ravensbruck 3
Max was in the toilet on the first landing when he heard the polite chap on the door. It irked him, but he tried to hurry, straining and finally...
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a new recklessness
It was cold that day, Helen remembered that. She was in a hurry, cycling to work. She was always in a hurry then. Too much of a hurry to notice the...
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alter's head. is that a play
Posted on Fri, 18 Jun 2021
alter's head. is that a play on words or do you mean altar? Both works, but in different ways. Enjoyed.
Read full commentPosted in A Feast of Bells
Yes, we are all in flux.
Posted on Tue, 15 Jun 2021
Yes, we are all in flux.
Read full commentPosted in Cherry Tree
super-intendent [no hyphen,
Posted on Sat, 12 Jun 2021
super-intendent [no hyphen, superintendent. And it would be better if you told the reader what he was superintending in your first twenty years. I know you were a teacher. But most readers don't.
I had to look up Kalliope, music box with...
Read full commentPosted in Fire in the Lighthouse
a loud whiisper is an
Posted on Fri, 04 Jun 2021
a loud whiisper is an oxymoron. But I know what you mean. Choose whiisper or loud. Not both.
moonlight doesn't trickle.
great start, plenty of foot-to-the-floor action. And the question of what they needed to steal and why remains...
Read full commentPosted in Don't Look Back
Blade Runner was certainly
Posted on Tue, 01 Jun 2021
Blade Runner was certainly better than the book. They tended to be prescient, but shit. Brought up o a diet of Star Trek, this is one of the great monolgues (not in the book). I'm rambling. Great poem.
Read full commentPosted in Roy Batty (Tears in Rain)
a happily unhappy story with
Posted on Sat, 29 May 2021
a happily unhappy story with an unhappy ending. Here's were we say, older and wiser, but life as you've shown is rarely that simple.
Read full commentPosted in The one that got away
bowl of fruit analogy works
Posted on Fri, 28 May 2021
bowl of fruit analogy works well.
Read full commentPosted in Alternatives
if we get the truth, then
Posted on Thu, 27 May 2021
if we get the truth, then that's win-win. Certainly doesn't happen in politics, but maybe in cat patrol.
Read full commentPosted in "Willow's Tail" 10
you gave me the jitters. I
Posted on Tue, 25 May 2021
you gave me the jitters. I thought Trump was back, no longer barred from Facebook and Twitter and returning to the land of his mom's birth. Thank god it's fiction.
Read full commentPosted in The Sure Yank Redemption
I'm never sure when a poem's
Posted on Mon, 24 May 2021
I'm never sure when a poem's a poem, but as an elegy to the past- yeh, love it.
Read full commentPosted in When We Were Young
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