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I have 1128 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 1729013 times and 1136 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1382 of my 14,714 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1417 votes

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Grimms87

Rab finishes his pint and follows Jaz out of the pub. He feels woozy, as if he could lie down for a lunch-time nap. A few minutes’ walk through...
Cherry

Grimms 86

Jaz sits in a haze of cigarette smoke in his usual perch in Maggie Scott’s, back against the wall, watching the door. Rab stumbles in and weaves...
Cherry

Grimms 85

‘This big gigantic guy with an eye is trying to kill him,’ Bruno says, with exaggerated affect. ‘So he can eat them.’ His voice rises and he gets...
Cherry

Grimms 84

Five days after robbing the Securicor van Jaz pulls a mask over booze coloured ruddy red cheeks and face and, hungover, is back at work. Del and...
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Grimms83

‘I’m here to see Tony,’ says Angela. Bob stands elephantine in the doorway of the Home with his checked shirt buttoned up to his neck, glasses off-...

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1382 of my comments have received 1417 Great Feedback votes

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I'm sure there's a writer's

Posted on Sun, 28 Apr 2019

I'm sure there's a writer's fetish site I'm a member of somewhere. 

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Posted in The Freedom to be Weird

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I was thinking of house

Posted on Tue, 16 Apr 2019

I was thinking of house through time too (I'll need to catch up with the newest one). But houses as envelopes, yeh, even the shape is perfect. 

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Posted in change of address

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poets are still devils, but

Posted on Tue, 23 Apr 2019

poets are still devils, but only if they're good. well done. you devil. 

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Posted in The Ducking Stool In Leominster Church

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the company is taking money

Posted on Fri, 19 Apr 2019

the company is taking money for nothning. bastards. parasites feeding off your anxieties. 

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Posted in The Will.

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a lovely mix of spring

Posted on Wed, 17 Apr 2019

a lovely mix of spring feelings. 

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Posted in Crocuses in Spring

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and the band played on. 

Posted on Sat, 13 Apr 2019

and the band played on. 

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Posted in This Life

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I thought you were going to

Posted on Tue, 26 Mar 2019

I thought you were going to write about a different kind of Twitter, This is a far better tweet. 

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Posted in My Kind Of Twitter

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Once again, this...and not

Posted on Sun, 24 Mar 2019

Once again, this...and not that. 

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Posted in Seventy Storeys

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appreciate all your help

Posted on Thu, 31 Jan 2019

appreciate all your help stephen. When (if) I come back to this story, the first place I'll look is other people's comments. as you know that's where fault lines lie. 

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Posted in Angel 14 (getting to first base)

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methinks no. hope not. 

Posted on Mon, 18 Mar 2019

methinks no. hope not. 

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Posted in The Robin.

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