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I have 180 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 885105 times and 288 of my stories have been cherry picked.
2204 of my 6,232 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2291 votes

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2204 of my comments have received 2291 Great Feedback votes

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Didn't find it melancholic,

Posted on Mon, 25 Jul 2022

Didn't find it melancholic, but that made it the more scary. Hypnotic, yes. But mostly seductive, the rhythm. It reminded me of the delicate ferociousness of a spider's hunger, the gentleness of it wrapping its prey as your words wrap the reader...

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Posted in Ceiba (Silk-Cotton Tree)

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I really liked the bit about

Posted on Sun, 24 Jul 2022

I really liked the bit about what the magazine was called :0) Stil intrigued to know what role the dog plays in the plot and looking forward to part 3!

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Posted in "The Coffee House Spy" 2

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I notice Sir Harry is not so

Posted on Sat, 23 Jul 2022

I notice Sir Harry is not so subtle as Willow :0) Am interested to find out if he keeps influencing the plot!

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Posted in "The Coffee House Spy"

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Penny, thankyou for reading

Posted on Fri, 22 Jul 2022

Penny, thankyou for reading and commenting. And for writing a new story! I saw you had posted it and am saving it to read, like a biscuit :0)

I listen to programs about climate change, politics, economics. Just like the sea, there seems to...

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Posted in sound escape

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That's a great idea, to take

Posted on Sun, 24 Jul 2022

That's a great idea, to take Dorian Gray and use it to make a painting hold happiness while life life has only unhappiness. Sort of like a drug, do you think? Am still trying to work out the significance of Miss Haversham

I loved the...

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Posted in The Artist of Swanage Downs

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Enjoyed thi so much. As

Posted on Fri, 22 Jul 2022

Enjoyed thi so much. As someone who doesn't travel, I love it when reading can whisk me away in a few lines, and you do, I feel I know the smells, the resting day, the contented expectation of more discovery tomorrow

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Posted in Bed and Board by The Silk Road

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I had missed it, too, and it

Posted on Fri, 03 Jun 2022

I had missed it, too, and it is wonderful, I love the idea that even when parting kindred spirits are united by the same light, both within from what "delights" and makes shared laughter, and from without, by the sun. And that you have "au revoir...

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Posted in Nuages

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The way you have your rhymes

Posted on Tue, 19 Jul 2022

The way you have your rhymes really sounds like the puff and grrr of struggle, and completed, unrhymed  at the end made me think of movement ended, a flat stone to sit on at the top :0)

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Posted in Any Hard Task

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Church and Monastery bells

Posted on Tue, 19 Jul 2022

Church and Monastery bells were a big part of Western soundscapes in earlier times, weren't they? And the Muezzzin is still important? It is interesting how as sounds and reminders of religion/ God fade so sounds of how we remade the world grow...

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Posted in The Art of Noises : A Futurist's Manifesto

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You are so good at conveying

Posted on Sat, 16 Jul 2022

You are so good at conveying how you feel, your love for the Natural world, with your gentle, rich flowing words. I understood exactly how you felt, inside the stiffness of glass windows, imagining the infinite shifting of fragile leaves, far...

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Posted in Silver Birch

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