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I have 180 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 644052 times and 285 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1971 of my 5,964 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2032 votes

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How special! As Paul says, I

Posted on Mon, 11 Jul 2022

How special! As Paul says, I felt I was seeing the wren, too, you really conveyed the intimacy and wonder of this encounter

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Posted in Unexpected Guests

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Your way of writing, your

Posted on Sat, 09 Jul 2022

Your way of writing, your spirit and sense of humour and warmth make me feel there is nothing, no fear a person cannot overcome if they treat them as you do. Chemo must be one of the most intimidating things we might have to take on in our life...

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Posted in Chemo 2

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That is kind of your son to

Posted on Thu, 07 Jul 2022

That is kind of your son to play, must be much better than listening to recorded music, and his grandmother must feel very proud, telling everyone who he is? And your grand daughter must have liked feeling  so important, too :0) As Jenny says, a...

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Posted in The Old and the Young

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We all go to the woods for

Posted on Tue, 05 Jul 2022

We all go to the woods for privacy, but want privacy for different reasons. Am often picking up aftershave cans which I think children here must sniff. Never nitrous oxide, though. I hope they don't think I am a witch.

Your teacher having...

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Posted in The Miracle of Maldon (Part Two of Three)

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You do sound like you are

Posted on Tue, 05 Jul 2022

You do sound like you are much better! I really admired and enjoyed your determined persevering :0) What an awful lot of obstacles! I hope you will make an account of it for your grandchildren :0)

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Posted in Going on a Way-hunt!

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I really liked your

Posted on Sun, 03 Jul 2022

I really liked your descriptions of school The English teacher always looking about to hold up a salmon is great :0) And the boys' conversations are so believable. and tying 1984 to a mystery and unease of a different kind, Danny's question,...

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Posted in The Miracle of Maldon (Part One of Three)

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lots and lots and lots of

Posted on Sun, 03 Jul 2022

lots and lots and lots of luck Jean. Your last line, you sound like an explorer going somewhere marked "Here be dragons" I do so hope it all goes well

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Posted in Chemo

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agree with Insert, this

Posted on Sun, 03 Jul 2022

agree with Insert, this reminds me so much of when I used to walk at dawn, the feeling of being the only person and surrounded by glory

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Posted in Goldenrod and Wild Aster

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That's wonderful Jenny!

Posted on Sat, 02 Jul 2022

That's wonderful Jenny!

I loved :

hushed efficiency,

and

among husks/ rising; glint of golden/ welcome,

and

so slight she can/ balance on heads of/ wheat

 

you really do evoke the idea of...

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Posted in Harvest Mouse

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Yes. It seems to me, if it is

Posted on Sun, 26 Jun 2022

Yes. It seems to me, if it is like a sum which cancels down and down eventually it cannot work out, for if every worker is being paid the minimum, or loses their job owing to efficiencies in production, then who is left to buy what is made?...

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Posted in rage, rage against the Dying of your Rights

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