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I have 180 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
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time flies

Bodies irridescent as minds in the present can hold places we've been in Future's oily sheen, while frail wings blister space, fizz with repulsive...
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Bluebells (again)

a blackbird decants descants, pouring incandescant territory into surrounding stillness as last week's treetips' tingling aces unfurl full flushes of...
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part 8

M ary looked at one shoe. At first, she tried pulling the strap from the middle, like a handle, but it only made it go thin and hurt her fingers...
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just deserts

I wander beside the desert unfurling like a sea of chrysanthemum petals wondering, Do fish swim under those diminishing curves? For sure, there are...
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cock robin

Who killed Cock Robin? We, said the workmen, with chainsaws from our van, we killed Cock Robin. Who saw him die? No one - he could still fly, find...

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2348 of my comments have received 2456 Great Feedback votes

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Congratulations! This is

Posted on Thu, 16 Jul 2026

Congratulations! This is Story of the Week!

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Posted in Amanderella and the Mystery of the Disappearing Vicar Chapter 3.

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Jane Hyphen's wonderful

Posted on Thu, 16 Jul 2026

Jane Hyphen's wonderful letter to The Moon addresses so many issues; clear as the moonlight and brilliant, it is Pick of the Day! Please do share, if you can

Jane, please change the image if you want to. It is from here :

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Posted in Letter to the Moon

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You are amazing at female

Posted on Wed, 15 Jul 2026

You are amazing at female characters - I know you said you are drawing on memory for Mrs Gaffletter, but how you describe her is BRILLIANT. And Calizone, she is fabulous, too! Mrs Gaffletter's sister and Maudline are also wonderful, but I love...

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Posted in The Shadow Chapter 3.

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I heard on the radio about

Posted on Thu, 16 Jul 2026

I heard on the radio about Trump daughter taking over a beautiful bit of Albania - very glad the people were listened to! It seems more and more that money overcomes morals, so it is brilliant to learn when this doesn't happen :0)
That must...

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Posted in Marta My Deer

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That must be one of my

Posted on Wed, 15 Jul 2026

That must be one of my favourite photos of yours :0) Though you have another, where they are all in a line, which is fabulous, too - the expressions, it is so happy! This one, the composition is like a painting. Bruegel would be full of...

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Posted in The Dumplings of Count Tiškevičius

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"a woman who refused to let

Posted on Sun, 12 Jul 2026

"a woman who refused to let hinges express themselves...
her hair pinned with the kind of accuracy usually reserved for cartographers"

Mrs Gaffletter would terrify me if I met her (being one of those to whom mud is copiously...

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Posted in Amanderella and the Mystery of the Disappearing Vicar Chapter 1.

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Wonderful ending :0) I have

Posted on Fri, 10 Jul 2026

Wonderful ending :0) I have really enjoyed these stories, Thank You!

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Posted in The Less Miserables Lose the Park (3)

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I like your idea of the crows

Posted on Fri, 10 Jul 2026

I like your idea of the crows not taking sides. From this part of your story, it seems they are like Maths teachers - the sum of Jezabel's life was not possible, so they had to correct it, and the tool they chose was your hero?

Ray...

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Posted in Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (28)

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:0) Funny, and clever, too,

Posted on Thu, 09 Jul 2026

:0) Funny, and clever, too, how you have an old fashioned style with modern daftness, like it is John Dee looking into the future. I love the bit about black dogs and cool kitchen floors. Altogether brilliant poem!

There was helpful advice...

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Posted in On Sizzling Days (repost from 2013)

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This wonderful description of

Posted on Tue, 07 Jul 2026

This wonderful description of a sea side town, in Eric Marsh's latest Amandarella story, is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

Please change the image if you want to. It was found here :
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Posted in Amanderella and the Marduk Affair Chapter 4

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