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I have 179 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 667484 times and 285 of my stories have been cherry picked.
2000 of my 6,014 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2063 votes

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2000 of my comments have received 2063 Great Feedback votes

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These are great Rhiannon :0)

Posted on Mon, 19 Aug 2019

These are great Rhiannon :0) Once when I was helping out on a school trip there was a little girl getting frightened, so we held hands and I asked her what we should talk about? She said her house, then told me all about her bedroom, and soon she...

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Posted in KidsSpeak

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NO! If you think of your poem

Posted on Mon, 12 Aug 2019

NO! If you think of your poem like a lump of rock - I can pick it up and see some quartz sparkling but someone else picks it up from a slightly different angle  and sees some copper veins, and another person maybe sees a face in the bumps and...

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Posted in Cathedrals

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"quiet mines the years" I

Posted on Mon, 12 Aug 2019

"quiet mines the years" I thought at first this was about a cliff but now think it is a relationship? Makes me think of two people in armchairs on opposite sides of a room, not speaking, one looking at the profile of the other in the light, and...

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Posted in Cathedrals

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sunshine, showers short, and

Posted on Mon, 12 Aug 2019

sunshine, showers short, and rainbows,
cuckoo calls and swooping swallows.

fresh and shining shade,
glowing green of woods and glade

How precious a home,
a haven that’s warm

of mosses, saturated, soft;...

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Posted in Through the year month by month

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I love the description

Posted on Wed, 14 Aug 2019

I love the description "withers and fills" . Scrolling back up top to the top of the poem, was surprised how short it is as it is so full of images

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Posted in prairie river flowing

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wow! what a brilliant

Posted on Wed, 14 Aug 2019

wow! what a brilliant wonderful amazing reader you are! I could listen to you reading all day :0) I'm really glad you posted this one! Please do a Craven Danger one with lots of dialogue?

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Posted in Lincoln's Crumpled Paper IP

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The weight on your shoulder,

Posted on Mon, 12 Aug 2019

The weight on your shoulder, that is the most precious feeling, isnt it? I didn't feel I was a mother till I felt that, like somehow I was balanced. And the sense of unbalance you brought to the story was so strong, like the narrator couldn't be...

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Posted in Katy, A Ghost Story (IP)

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this is one of your intense

Posted on Sat, 10 Aug 2019

this is one of your intense mood creations, the stillness (I hope not loneliness) in this place, and the weather/life disturbing outside. And the wondering what conversation caused the ringing in your ears. Covers the same weather as Jenny's...

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Posted in In perpetuity

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Brilliant description of

Posted on Wed, 07 Aug 2019

Brilliant description of incoming tide being "the long push"

"pincered beasts and tube-dwelling tentacled lagoon worms" makes them sound like fantasy monsters :0) I like your contrast of the diferent uses of shells, too. So many details....

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Posted in Tentacled Lagoon Worm

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or maybe you outgrew it. Or

Posted on Wed, 31 Jul 2019

or maybe you outgrew it. Or life's lexicon discovered you had been mislabelled all the time

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Posted in Nameless

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