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I have 180 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 779693 times and 288 of my stories have been cherry picked.
2168 of my 6,297 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2239 votes

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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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"cardinal red

Posted on Thu, 01 Aug 2019

"cardinal red

laced and wired with veins and arteries,

a muscular bomb" this is so vivid!

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Posted in Rubatosis

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I like this more and more

Posted on Wed, 31 Jul 2019

I like this more and more each time I read it. I feel like I am stalking your ideas, though, as there was a flock on the buddleia outside. I don't remember seeing so many before. You convey the feeling of their indomitability/fragility really...

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Posted in Painted Ladies

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You listen to World Service

Posted on Tue, 30 Jul 2019

You listen to World Service too! Sometimes cannot sleep al night and it is comforting listening to them talking, knowing they are al awake too. You have conjured the teetering fragile feeling of being very tired and unable to sleep, like an...

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Posted in 3am

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brilliant! Particularly with

Posted on Mon, 29 Jul 2019

brilliant! Particularly with relation to countries and old conflicts, like an arm breaking free of the ties, flailing around. It makes me think of the world now, the hurts of the past reinforcing present troubles, history growing restless, like...

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Posted in It should be easy to forget

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Oh Jane WOW

Posted on Wed, 03 Jul 2019

Oh Jane WOW

I just read this, can't convey how brilliant sufficiently as don't have time, but WOW

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Posted in A Man Riding the Tube Train

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waters flooding everywhere

Posted on Fri, 21 Jun 2019

waters flooding everywhere but none that's fit to drink

agree about paraphrases however the water water line is something everyone knows like a nursery rhyme, it's gone beyond being a poem, it's part of the bones of our language now. So...

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Posted in The Plastic Mariner

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wow, that really conveys a

Posted on Wed, 12 Jun 2019

wow, that really conveys a fierce sea! "Feral roaring" is fantastic

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Posted in The Ocean

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