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I have 1130 stories published in
7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 1735156 times
and 1139 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1387 of my 14,738 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1422 votes
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Grimms 93
Jaz is a different man on the Larne Ferry, a man that now suddenly believes in the hereafter. The crew wear uniforms, blue shirts and grey trousers,...
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Salty
‘David Salter,’ the woman said. She had his file in her hand, looking over the top of her glasses and scrutinizing him. Five-foot four with sandy-...
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George goes it alone
George noticed his moustache had turned him overnight into a Freddy Mercury clone. He shaved it off before he went to bed. He felt invigorated, like...
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Our glorious past
Our glorious past Will always last Dr Typhoid, Dr Tuberculosis and Dr Malnutrition Kinship in marvellous condition Spotted fever aka Rickettsia...
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relapse prevention therapy
When I was five I was raped. He said it was a game. It wouldn’t hurt. These are clichés. I sometimes tell my students that fiction often isn’t...
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Lovely story and true too.
Posted on Wed, 11 Dec 2019
Lovely story and true too.
Read full commentPosted in Author's Day
I'm a bit like you, I've
Posted on Sat, 30 Nov 2019
I'm a bit like you, I've heard of J.K.Rowling. Haven't read any Harry Potter. But I have hear the myth around how she was working in an Edinburgh coffeeshop...being turned down 12 times is nothing. I've heard of Sheldon, watched a bit of The Big...
Read full commentPosted in Jim Parsons and J.K. Rowling.
gritty and grimy, so he's a
Posted on Sat, 30 Nov 2019
gritty and grimy, so he's a cop, interesting. terriific wring. whose story is it, Gallacher or Crowe's? If it's Crowe's the descripton of him given (change of point of view) by Gallacher needs a bit of work and kinda jams the narrative.
Read full commentPosted in A Quality of inertia (WIP)
Word origin of 'vade mecum'
Posted on Tue, 26 Nov 2019
Word origin of 'vade mecum'
C17: from Latin, literally: go with me
I will walk with you a while in your writing. Alan Bennet's idea of reading as a hand held out which you grasp. Munch's scream is so popular because it allows for...
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Amen.
Posted on Fri, 22 Nov 2019
Amen.
Read full commentPosted in He Who is Sent
a little grace is poetry that
Posted on Sun, 17 Nov 2019
a little grace is poetry that stretches the soul of even hungry ghosts.
Read full commentPosted in Second thoughts
yep, I read this. I like the
Posted on Sun, 17 Nov 2019
yep, I read this. I like the idea of all that fighting over a simulacra. But it was really virtue they were fighting over. Something they couldn't possess. I guess there's a bit of the idea of ideal forms thrown in as well. My answer is longer...
Read full commentPosted in trojan horse
fireworks is big business,
Posted on Fri, 08 Nov 2019
fireworks is big business, but a shrinking business. I guess councils will opt out of having displays. What a waste of money?
Read full commentPosted in Pets And Fireworks.
I guess we all select books
Posted on Fri, 01 Nov 2019
I guess we all select books that we think has value. Our values differ. As do our tastes.
Read full commentPosted in Alien Opportunities Ch.1 : New Opportunities Part 3
It was elves. Elves were
Posted on Fri, 18 Oct 2019
It was elves. Elves were cheaper than robots are now. So they employed them instead of humans. Watch your tense. You tend to move from present to pass tense and back again. |No biggy, but keep an eye on it.
Read full commentPosted in Horn and Hardart Automat - (A day spent with my dad)
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