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I have 180 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 796749 times and 288 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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before Floris

By Di_Hard on Tue, 05 Aug 2025

bright low disc shining through cool ruffled grey clouds, late sun caught on purple knapweed and creamy meadowsweet sprays where our goal opens, calm...
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"For, being green, there is great hope" (quote from Shakespeare's HENRY VI PART 2, ACT 3 SCENE 1)

By Di_Hard on Sat, 22 Jun 2024

Some people are angry that Just Stop Oil threw coloured cornflour at Stonehenge. Because the structure is old? A symbol of how humans have survived...
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Two kinds of crying : 15th February 2024

By Di_Hard on Fri, 16 Feb 2024

Leaving the road for the slick, clay-swallowed gravel of the footpath, newly scalped of its sodden, rot smelling dark brown felt of last year's...
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at dusk today

By Di_Hard on Tue, 28 Nov 2023

light mourning lavender sheets sky and sea far pink coast recalls sunset white triangle sail heading out gulls fly, wings bright as full moon's disc...
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October 2023

By Di_Hard on Sun, 29 Oct 2023

Shame : so hard to forget this soft word starting with a Sh! as of secrets, brushed under deep carpets and A in its middle, alphabet's beginning an...
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2188 of my comments have received 2261 Great Feedback votes

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This wonderful Holiday story

Posted on Fri, 02 Jan 2026

This wonderful Holiday story from Jane Hyphen is Pick of the Day! Please do share, if you can

Jane, please change the image if you want to. It is from here :

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Posted in The Cat Krampus Campus (and Moment who couldn't resist not doing nothing)

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Sean McNulty's wonderful

Posted on Tue, 23 Dec 2025

Sean McNulty's wonderful story of Moon magic is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

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Posted in The Plenilune

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My son asked me if you wrote

Posted on Wed, 03 Dec 2025

My son asked me if you wrote about the protest? He showed me photos on Google. It must have been HUGE! Did you feel the energy of it, where you are? I guess it is because you have so many young people, in Bulgaria?

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Posted in The Strange Case of Dr Gunchev and Crazy Ludo

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I hope Ludo is healing up by

Posted on Mon, 01 Dec 2025

I hope Ludo is healing up by now. Imagining him limping up to some super-tough tom and provoking a fight.
Have never seen a toad that big! Are they even the same kind as in UK? Your wildlife does sound a bit scary - hedgehogs eating grass...

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Posted in Papa’s Got a Brand New Chainsaw

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Thank You so much for this

Posted on Fri, 14 Nov 2025

Thank You so much for this FABULOUS IP response, which I completely missed! It kept making me smile all through, like with the lifeboat bit but the last two paragraphs are BRILLIANT. How these old buildings have been here for centuries, but in...

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Posted in Saturday Night's Alright for Peaches

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If any living thing survives,

Posted on Mon, 10 Nov 2025

If any living thing survives, it will be in the cracks between mankind's control. No man's land in our battle to be God

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Posted in Naming Tree

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Part 6 of Penny4athought's

Posted on Mon, 03 Nov 2025

Part 6 of Penny4athought's gripping adventure is your Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

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Posted in "Art of Trouble" 6

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Poetic, Surreal, rich as an

Posted on Mon, 27 Oct 2025

Poetic, vivid, mysterious, this fabulous short piece by rask_balavoine is sure to get you in the mood for Halloween, so it is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

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Posted in Wobbling between this and that.

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A Rubic's cube, shifting

Posted on Fri, 12 Sep 2025

A Rubik's cube, shifting sides, a bright child's hope and friendship flowering amid others' anger, all in Marandina's story which is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

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Posted in The Boy with the Rubik’s Cube

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This wise and beautiful poem

Posted on Mon, 25 Aug 2025

This wise and beautiful poem from lenchenelf is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

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