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My stories have been read 737768 times
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to pick up time
never done, the sea is a bed remaking itself over and over, so light never sleeps on the salt shot silk of its sheet and thoughts are beached shells...
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Hand Washing, Glasgow Central
Unfortunately, our ferry got in late because of the wind, so we missed the train we needed, to get to his appointment, but fortunately I had...
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Getting Ready
Gone the rag sound of a bird alone dropped on naked silence between dumpsters' grinding regurgitations from horizon's bridge and fuzzy pulse of cars...
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deer
i used to cross slow growing moss swells by tree masts, tossing, lichen rigged, see in the distance dragon wings, folded into hills. But now, words'...
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part 7
W hen she woke up, Mary did not feel tired anymore. Ever since she had had to stay at Jake’s house, it had taken ages to go to sleep. Night time was...
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Oooh, sensing Polly might
Posted on Tue, 15 Jul 2025
Oooh, sensing Polly might have magical powers?
11 disappearances is a lot! I'd worry about that, too!
Billy's character is great, am looking forward to seeing how he handles the baddie :0)
not sure about some bits "It was fine...
Read full commentPosted in Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (3)
"The course of true love
Posted on Tue, 15 Jul 2025
"The course of true love never did run smooth", as Shakespeare might have said of Perfidia's experiences in this latest instalment of Penny4athought's wonderful WIP, which is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can
Read full commentPosted in "Willow's Missing Tail" 30
You convey his fear very well
Posted on Sat, 12 Jul 2025
You convey his fear very well. You have "Will he ever forgive myself if I don't jump?" which made me wonder if you have tried skydiving? I would be much too scared
Read full commentPosted in Here I am
Beautiful, Rhiannon. You are
Posted on Thu, 10 Jul 2025
Beautiful, Rhiannon. You are so clever to fit the original meaning into new words, and still have rhyme, I don't know how translators manage this, but you have, here, so well. I love "stirring your joy again, again"
Read full commentPosted in Daffodil
This really does have the
Posted on Thu, 10 Jul 2025
This really does have the sense of being in a dream, everything too sudden and total. Will try to remember to face tigers. I liked very much the stripes, of light and shadow, of forgotten and unforgotten, of waking and unwaking. "primal fears and...
Read full commentPosted in I Dreamt of Tigers
Have just heard on the news
Posted on Mon, 07 Jul 2025
A few days after you posted this, have just heard on the news about mothers, pregnant women and children queueing for supplements to help with the malnutrition caused by Netanyahu's blockade. Bombed. One of the 8 children killed is a little one...
Read full commentPosted in Fifty Shades of Death
chilling to read, great
Posted on Fri, 27 Jun 2025
chilling to read, great writing
Read full commentPosted in The Patrolman - 29
Brilliant :0) Glad Farzanah
Posted on Wed, 09 Jul 2025
Brilliant :0) Glad Farzanah was ok, hope she is, still. If I were a high up in her country, would be working my socks off to get a bomb finished before that happened again. Hope Sofi's back is better by now, and that hasn't put her off hydrangeas...
Read full commentPosted in If I Were a Fish
From fireflies to fig sap,
Posted on Tue, 08 Jul 2025
From fireflies to fig sap, imagining Marlene Dietrich in a bus shelter to beating Lyme's disease, Turlough's diary entry for June is a great read, which is why it is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can
Read full commentPosted in Marlene Dietrich’s Gappy Teeth
This part struck me most
Posted on Mon, 07 Jul 2025
This part struck me most strongly, as not talked about on the news etc
Read full comment"Yes, mothers often pay the price
with holy wartime sacrifice:
in flight, miscarried embryos!
Quite slow as ethnic cleansing goes,
but...
Posted in Fifty Shades of Death
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