Di_Hard

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I have 177 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 408125 times and 278 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1532 of my 5,146 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1573 votes

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Cherry

part 10

Mary jumped back from the hole and went to Wong, always keeping that hole in the web in sight, as if the Monster would burst through any time. "Wake...
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Cherry

part 9

Wong moved quickly over the fallen leaves, and Mary had to keep doing little runs to keep up. She was doing one of these when Wong stopped! Mary...
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preserving time

When this pan's hot, usually it's dull- full of potatoes or lentils. Tonight, blackberry juice simmers fathomless and darkest purple as the pupil of...
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Cherry

flotsam and jetsam

On the beach, among litter a herring gull fledgeling, dead beside a Happy Birthday balloon background : Soothed in vast freedom and insouciance of...
Gold cherry
Poem of the week

jormungandr

Some things will never change. At Summer's height bright as a plastic butterfly, the Fair unpacks on the Prom.
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1532 of my comments have received 1573 Great Feedback votes

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Reminded me of Wyndham, too,

Posted on Wed, 03 Jan 2024

Reminded me of Wyndham, too, and some zombie pandemic films. Your setting and central character are good and strong

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Posted in Abyss

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Completely brilliant :0) Now

Posted on Wed, 03 Jan 2024

Completely brilliant :0) Now I get your comment about worms! Hope all well in next part

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Posted in This Sort of Thing - December 2023 - Side A

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Great rhymes :0) You must

Posted on Sat, 30 Dec 2023

Great rhymes :0) You must have SO MANY photos!!!

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Posted in Goody Two Shoes

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Lovely :0) The thought of

Posted on Sat, 30 Dec 2023

Lovely :0) The thought of going to sleep listing all the ways of staying awake, and the happy surprise from not succeeding, not yet being grown up :0)

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Posted in “This night I will …”

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I loved the idea of finding

Posted on Sat, 30 Dec 2023

I loved the idea of finding truth in the ashes of lies. Also liked very much "moorblooded". We used to go to Dartmoor when I was little, it does seem to get into one's blood, or the feeling of who one is, forever. And the moor itself is like a...

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Posted in The Witches of Long Compton

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where the giants lived, who

Posted on Sat, 30 Dec 2023

Silver Chair, where the giants lived, who wanted to put them in a pie? ps thinking that might have been like hoar fang, because in a snowy place? If fang means catch in Swedish, he could've been hinting at snowy trap.
Maybe the old word for...

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Posted in The Witches of Long Compton

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worm in / ermine, easy

Posted on Thu, 28 Dec 2023

worm in / ermine, easy mistake :0)

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Posted in Lingo Bingo

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You are in for a treat.

Posted on Thu, 28 Dec 2023

You are in for a treat. Turlough at the top of his form is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can, and spread the joy of this brilliant writing

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Posted in Lingo Bingo

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What a lovely treat! I am so

Posted on Wed, 27 Dec 2023

What a lovely treat! I am so glad you have continued with these! Every time I hear any of your characters on the radio, I think of these wonderful stories :0) Exactly what I needed to read on this glum day, THANKYOU!

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Posted in The Masque of the Red-Faced Boris

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That was SO GOOD!!! THANKYOU

Posted on Sun, 24 Dec 2023

That was SO GOOD!!! THANKYOU very much for making me smile :0) We watched Dune for our Christmas film, and though i liked it more than than the first version, it couldn't be described as fun. Unlike your wonderful story - I will never think of...

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Posted in "In the bleak midwinter..."

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