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I have 180 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 868493 times and 288 of my stories have been cherry picked.
2183 of my 6,200 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2264 votes

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O is for Orange Pomander and Ochre Path

juiceful globe, zesty sweet, spiked with cloves' stark, wood scent fallen warmth tessellates - leaf and needle pavement
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N is for Nativity and Nuts

New faces shine, words spread wide as written long ago unreadable inside instructions how to grow
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M is for Mince Pie and Mouse Pantry

short pastry case contains mixed dried fruit, spirit-steeped root roofed, unreached by rain, three sided beech mast's heaped
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L is for Letters (to North Pole) and Lichen

wishful lists, neatly made, flame posted, undefine slow creeping, bark borne jade filaments, mist slick, shine this picture is from Wimedia : https...
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K is for Kings and Knapweed

gifts for fraught future brought - gold, frankinsence and myrrh purple crown much bee-sought turned finch seedhead sceptre

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2183 of my comments have received 2264 Great Feedback votes

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I love the evocation of

Posted on Mon, 02 Feb 2026

I love the evocation of contentment and peace, everyone enjoying the sun, like cats :0) And your remembering your cock pit! Knowing how you hated school once you got there, is like Winter in bleakness and inevitability. My memory was intended for...

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Posted in Tom All Alone (11)

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Wasn't only that bit! I loved

Posted on Tue, 03 Feb 2026

Wasn't only that bit! I loved the first entry too, about the lady who went to Woodstock, and that everyone has changed their minds about the euros because they are shiny, and the lady who was cross about getting other countries' euros, when that...

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Posted in I Feel Like I’m Fixing to Tie-Dye My Raggy Socks

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Thank you for your IP

Posted on Tue, 03 Feb 2026

Thank you for your IP response Rhiannon. I hope your mother in law is sleeping better, now. I like that you include cooking sounds in those which it is good to hear :0)

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Posted in Silence, or quiet?

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Brilliant! Thank You :0) I

Posted on Sun, 01 Feb 2026

Brilliant! Thank You :0) I love

The kind that held you.
The kind that asked nothing.
The kind that was still there
when you came back.

your suggestion that the sounds of the world we are creating are wearing it...

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Posted in While I Wasn't Listening

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Perfect, Rhiannon, all the

Posted on Thu, 22 Jan 2026

Perfect, Rhiannon, all the word sounds and that way you have of making the last line still and comforting somehow

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Posted in Dark and dreary …

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Thank You for your beautiful,

Posted on Thu, 08 Jan 2026

Thank You for your beautiful, very personal IP response Jenny. I don't know anything about Laycock, but it sounds like a good place to hold such a precious memory of your Mum

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Posted in Gone But Not Forgotten

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Love the Ferrero Roche

Posted on Mon, 05 Jan 2026

Love the Ferrero Roche/Hazelnut allergy :0)

Is it Totem Carol wants to give to Harry's Mum?

I like this part even more than the first, really hope there are LOTS MORE :0)

This thing with the salmon did actually happen at my...

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Posted in The Cat Krampus Campus (And Moment who couldn't resist not doing nothing) Part 2

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That's a fantastic title :0)

Posted on Wed, 24 Dec 2025

That's a fantastic title :0) I am glad they missed out on the trouble this one time! Happy New Year, with lots of writing :0)

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Posted in Christmas Mrs.

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Ok. Second guess, shoe

Posted on Mon, 15 Dec 2025

Ok. Second guess, shoe smuggler just starting out thought he was getting a bargain, but was actually only half pairs. So embarrassed he buried them all in the garden?

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Posted in A Hare's Breath 4 - The Horror

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The undercurrent of suspicion

Posted on Mon, 15 Dec 2025

The undercurrent of suspicion for your fellows seeded in history, but all sides still united in fear of the faeries, that belief in luck and bad luck which is older than religion. All sides relishing the bright words and skill of pulling a laugh...

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Posted in A Hare's Breath 4 - The Horror

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