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I have 180 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 985697 times and 288 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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Cherry

open your eyes!

bombing your moral high ground (won at such terrible cost) must always be a tricky manoevre to pull off - before you know where you are, history is...
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begone

there is a bumblebee buzzing where the woundwort was now neat snipped stalks in hoe hacked naked soil no cerise tipped willowherb spires, leaves...
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wising up

"When are you going to get the boiler fixed?" ..."It's not that cold yet!" "The fridge smells bad. Oh, it's stopped working!" ..."What?!?" "Can't we...
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0.1%

our burning issue? Poverty is sin and soul's end the means to reach new Heaven : Space, where guilt's weightless and wealth won't decay though years...
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Cherry

agriphila straminella

"... rather plain looking.... Habitat : Grassy areas almost anywhere... ...easily disturbed" with silk-cool shock, they rise pale as ghosts of yellow...
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2338 of my comments have received 2443 Great Feedback votes

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Whatever it is you're eating

Posted on Sat, 05 Sep 2026

Whatever it is you're eating at the moment, is being brilliant at powering your writing :0) This is so WONDERFUL :0)

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Posted in Letters on the Mat

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Didn't know about the Donkey,

Posted on Mon, 31 Aug 2026

Didn't know about the Donkey, that's horrific. They had the clip on the news again recently of the little girl in a car full of her dead relatives, begging for help as the Israelis closed in to finish her off. That we still have diplomatic...

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Posted in Donkey

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This latest instalment of

Posted on Thu, 20 Aug 2026

This latest instalment of Eric Marsh's fabulous Witch of the Dark Forest series is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can.
If you read previous parts of this story you will appreciate the unsettling feeling as it accumulates.

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Posted in Problems with time. Chapter 8.

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You communicate the fear

Posted on Sun, 16 Aug 2026

You communicate the fear really well. I hope very much you have no more like this!

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Posted in "Nightmare"

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That is a terrible thought,

Posted on Tue, 18 Aug 2026

That is a terrible thought, that it is more dangerous there now than under the Romans.
I was reading recently about lebensraum, and then there's Musk describing compassion as weakness. It's as if all ethical progress is being wiped away

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Posted in Sojourn In Palestine (Welcome To Palestine!) by Alfred N.Muggins : Part 4

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That's a lovely way to

Posted on Tue, 18 Aug 2026

That's a lovely way to celebrate:0) I hope you are both well. You describe the drought, the sheep, the landscape dry really well. It must be terrible with wool on, in the heat. I guess all the streams have gone, too?

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Posted in Fragile uplands

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The ominous final part of

Posted on Tue, 14 Jul 2026

This ominous final part of Marandina's story about two teenagers battling an ancient evil, is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

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Posted in Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (30)

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A lady on the news was saying

Posted on Thu, 09 Jul 2026

A lady on the news was saying how her boys were in the school football team, had lots of friends, she didn't want to move. So frightening for the place fled to for safety suddenly to turn against you. I liked your last stanza very much, too

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Posted in Misplaced Person Seeks Pomegranates

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Perhaps Belgium winning is a

Posted on Tue, 07 Jul 2026

Perhaps Belgium winning is a Hopeful sign :0)

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Posted in What Will The World (or America!) Be like In Another 4 Years? by Alfred N.Muggins

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Oh, Jane, you understand

Posted on Fri, 03 Jul 2026

Oh, Jane, you understand completely how it is.
THANK YOU for this Wise, Beautiful Truth

I hope all the animals who live with you are well, that this is not about one, now

As Turlough says, will want to read this again. Would...

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Posted in When a dog knows too much

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