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I have 1193 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 3069281 times and 1221 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1745 of my 15,865 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1786 votes

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Awake

Almost the worst thing A face that no longer speaks Warfarin and medical wattle One that makes you weep Sloshing around is somebody No need for an...
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claptrap

Collecting a plastic medal on his 30 th anniversary. Clenched teeth and a rictus smile. The backslapping goodness of them all. Dry lips. Missing God...
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Cherry

Renaissance.

So it must have been after the birth of the Ku Klux Klan In the first, bright light, the spellbound hugged themselves In their fields of late-cropped...
Cherry

The Lost Manuscript 3

Dark was darker than death when you were younger. Light a flashbulb. No fat kids. No coloured kids, unless it was the black babies’ pictures you...
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the lost manuscript 2

He didn’t set out to be a slob. It was just easier not to care in a flat-footed way to wear the same clothes until they were like twins with an...
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1745 of my comments have received 1786 Great Feedback votes

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maybe turlough. maybe. 

Posted on Sun, 16 Nov 2025

maybe turlough. maybe. 

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Posted in genesis

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full of colour and broken

Posted on Sun, 16 Nov 2025

full of colour and broken glass. 

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Posted in My Dinosaur Era Chapter 22

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Absolutely. For Fairy Cake

Posted on Fri, 14 Nov 2025

Absolutely. For Fairy Cake read Crunchies. Faires eat then too. So they must be true. 

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Posted in FAIRY CAKES

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trippple

Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025

trippple like tipple. More than one. Like a burn to the sea or see?  

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Posted in The Second Shadow

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great story, not a shadow on

Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025

great story, not a shadow on the second shadow. bravo.  

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Posted in The Second Shadow

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ah, wow, delicate and tough,

Posted on Mon, 10 Nov 2025

ah, wow, delicate and tough, hard to braid and hard to breath. The things you know. 

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Posted in Things You Keep

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ah, but no leaky teapots,

Posted on Mon, 10 Nov 2025

ah, but no leaky teapots, Turlough. Always that missing piece. 

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Posted in Naming Tree

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in the annnals of wandering

Posted on Mon, 10 Nov 2025

in the annnals of wandering about fields field, I've never seen so much dedication. You deserve all the honours of the broken teapot. Long may your luminary reek. There hasn't been such dedicated tramping since the potato and toilet-roll famine...

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Posted in Turlough Ó Carolan's Farewell to Turlough Ó Maoláin

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the newspaper nobody ever

Posted on Sun, 09 Nov 2025

the newspaper nobody ever read. Must be the Egyptian equivalent of the Sun. 

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Posted in Alexandria

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much I sadly find myself

Posted on Sun, 09 Nov 2025

much I sadly find myself agreeing with here. Backward steps for humanity. 

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Posted in Victory In Europe Day 8th of May 2025 : Hollow Victory Celebration After Almost 80 Years of Success and Peace

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