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I have 180 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 844944 times and 288 of my stories have been cherry picked.
2221 of my 6,404 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2302 votes

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Gold cherry

new song

metamorphosed from round cheeked child to buzzing teen, glitter of invisible wings carries him as he flicks a switch, filling his room with music no...
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Gold cherry
Poem of the week

inklings

commas wait for speech, in thickening stillness wriggle, as possibilities shrink to silt in sun's incomprehension for small ink black slinkings...
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Gold cherry

stravaganza

let off horizon's leash, sun casts hungrily through bare trees till shadow's cowered, tight- bowerered in honeysuckle stalks on a stumped giant,...
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Cherry

Persephone's first day

I came from darkness into darkness from walls of Earth, veined halls seeping mesh of fresh water down, along, down sought and silent-supped by...
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Gold cherry

two paths (may be distressing)

lithe russet, fox flickers through trees' lichened blue haze black, in black of branches raven calls, excited somewhere high buzzards too know woods...
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2221 of my comments have received 2302 Great Feedback votes

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Congratulations! This is

Posted on Thu, 01 May 2025

Congratulations! This is Story of the Week!

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Posted in Semper Augustus

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Read about Cedric's

Posted on Mon, 28 Apr 2025

Read about Cedric's increasing creepiness and Spencer's great idea in this fabulous new part of Jane Hyphen's very clever Parcel for You, which is Pick of the Day!

Image is from here :...

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Posted in Parcel for You - Part 59

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What a cliff hanger! This is

Posted on Fri, 18 Apr 2025

What a cliff hanger! This is altogether being a WONDERFUL story. I am so happy you found ABCTales :0) I remember you saying when you just had, how you had not really got anywhere with publishing? You have SO MUCH more brilliant stuff now!

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Posted in Rupees Appease

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If you would like cheering up

Posted on Tue, 11 Mar 2025

If you would like cheering up, try this wonderful true story from Ed Crane, it is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

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Posted in The Lonely Goose on The Durme

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I love this one! Read 7 times

Posted on Thu, 27 Feb 2025

I love this one! Read 7 times at least and will again it is FABULOUS

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Posted in The Lighthouse Keeper of Ras Gombo

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As we near Valentine's press

Posted on Mon, 10 Feb 2025

As we near Valentine's press of cellophaned roses, this wonderful poem celebrates a very different kind of relationship, and it is Pick of the Day. Please do share if you can

The photo is by Adrei Stroe, found here :
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Posted in The Garden, that was my domain

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Thankyou so much for your

Posted on Thu, 02 Jan 2025

Thankyou so much for your good wishes :0) Last year was a bit rubbish, so hoping very much this year is more fun. And for you, too
If dogs were made like giraffes would be very bad news for squirrels!
DO NOT have words about BDSM...

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Posted in Mad Dogs and Donkeys

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You really have given it

Posted on Thu, 07 Nov 2024

You really have given it character! There seems something welcoming about the sea here, on the West. And it is amazing how different light is, the purple that gets into everything. I guess on the East, there's always the sense that cold weather...

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Posted in East Coast Scotland (Reflection)

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You made me think how Lego

Posted on Thu, 10 Oct 2024

You made me think how Lego has become like gold, to be handed down, and added to over generations! And imagined that others in your family made things from the same bricks - it is almost like DNA :0)
The trouble with those expensive sets is...

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Posted in Wee Plastic Hats Off to Ole Kirk Christiansen!

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Glad you think all her songs

Posted on Thu, 26 Sep 2024

Glad you think all her songs sound the same, too :0) Brilliant IP response, Thankyou! Find it so interesting that she endorsed Harris, and Musk endorsed Trump, two very powerful opposites in social media? Maybe she really does make white noise,...

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Posted in On the Wind

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