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I have 180 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 687179 times and 288 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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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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2031 of my comments have received 2094 Great Feedback votes

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The words "Young man" used to

Posted on Thu, 03 Apr 2025

The words "Young man" used to hold energy and hope. But I don't know anyone who feels that, now. Stars are cold company. "Lacing his shoes the way he was taught" made me think of how even if you do everything right, try hard, it doesn't matter....

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Posted in The Young Man

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Not just the way to a man's

Posted on Fri, 28 Mar 2025

Not just the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, then? It seems another part of Cedric's creepiness to manipulate Vanessa like this!

Very interesting, looking at stuff from Spencer's point of view, now. Not enough just to react to...

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Posted in Parcel for you - Part 56

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love the sound matching the

Posted on Sun, 23 Mar 2025

love the sound matching the meaning in : "Sufficient soaking"

and "thrive in radiance" is gorgeous.

Light showers do descend more slowly, they make me think of sky finger tips

wonderful to read a new poem from you, hope you...

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Posted in Rain

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I feel I am getting to know

Posted on Fri, 14 Mar 2025

I feel I am getting to know your river through your posts :0) I really liked

our shadows

dark and monstrous elongated in slanting

light.

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Posted in Walking the Dog on a Frosty Morning

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I like music being physical

Posted on Fri, 14 Mar 2025

I like music being physical emotional mental blessing :0) Makes a lot of sense that it must be better to be woken by something pleasant than alarming.

It is nearly the time of year for the herring gulls to start their families which lots...

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Posted in Time to Rise and Shine!

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Oh! That makes Cedric really

Posted on Thu, 13 Mar 2025

Oh! That makes Cedric really creepy! BRILLIANT idea. And Annie calling him uncle Cedric, and the contrast of how she views it all as an experiment while Vanessa is living it, you are so clever

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Posted in Parcel for you - Part 55

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OOh, I love the wind locking

Posted on Sun, 09 Mar 2025

OOh, I love the wind locking them all in! Brilliant to have everyone turning up, too. This is a FABULOUS installment :0)

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Posted in 'Willow's Missing Tail" 26

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Congratulations! This is Poem

Posted on Tue, 04 Mar 2025

Congratulations! This is Poem of the Week!

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Posted in Killed By Cows

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I love the characters you

Posted on Mon, 03 Mar 2025

I love the characters you share in your Diaries, like this : "The toothless old widow who sits beneath the pomegranate tree in the square told me that her favourite Anton Chekov quote was ‘People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when...

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Posted in The Archers in Cyrillic Script

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yes, you are so right about

Posted on Sat, 01 Mar 2025

yes, you are so right about it needing to be very thin! Wish I had understood that before the first time I made Marmite sandwiches - I put way too much on and had to spread it round lots more bread to be edible, then had to persuade everybody...

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Posted in Love it or hate it … ?

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