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I have 180 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 755707 times and 288 of my stories have been cherry picked.
2138 of my 6,243 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2206 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
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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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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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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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2138 of my comments have received 2206 Great Feedback votes

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You Poor One! So sorry things

Posted on Tue, 03 Sep 2024

You Poor One! So sorry things are so horrible still. It is like you to think of helping others by writing of your experience in the MRI. I am glad that found there is nothing extra wrong with your back, as that must mean once you have your other...

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Posted in Can Life Get Better?

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This very powerful expression

Posted on Sun, 01 Sep 2024

This very powerful expression of what so many of us feel, is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

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Posted in They Were Only Children

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As CM said, Summer up here

Posted on Sat, 17 Aug 2024

As CM said, Summer up here has been and gone. Not sure more than 2 weeks of days with any sunshine, where we live. But your poem makes me grateful not to be somewhere more meteorologically exuberant! I do hope you get your rainy coolness by bed...

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Posted in No Country for Cold Men

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Brilliant :0) I love that

Posted on Tue, 16 Jul 2024

Brilliant :0) I love that wearing a toadstool hat can make a person blend in. Also, intrigued how happy Spencer is that Vanessa will buy him a present. Oh, and how she says "No" about him smoking, imagining smoke coming out of "my gaps" could...

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Posted in Parcel for you...Part 29

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So many great stories and

Posted on Wed, 22 May 2024

So many great stories and poems today, choosing was really hard. This piece by Marandina, intriguing and full of wonderful description will have you instantly hooked, and it is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

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Posted in The 16:03 to Purgatory (Part One of Two)

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Jane Hyphen's encounter with

Posted on Fri, 03 May 2024

Jane Hyphen's unsettling encounter with what seems like the opposite of her guardian angel is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

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Posted in Ratface

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Thankyou so much, Jean, both

Posted on Fri, 15 Mar 2024

Thankyou so much, Jean, both for sharing your inspiring Spirit of braveness and intelligence, imagination and humour, and also the kindness of your comments. I had to go to hospital for a check up recently and started having a panic attack, but...

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Posted in The End - part 2

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We are so lucky to be

Posted on Mon, 11 Mar 2024

ABCTales members are so lucky to be first to read this continuously brilliant story by Jane Hyphen. This part describes Vanessa's worries about her daughter's visit, and is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

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Posted in Parcel for you...Part 21

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It is because you are so FAB

Posted on Fri, 08 Mar 2024

It is because you are so FAB with details! Like the Persian carpet runner on the stairs, took me right there! So all the rest becomes easy to believe, too. You weave your rich imagination through the mundane

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Posted in The Golden Fleece (Part Two of Two)

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This most enjoyable first

Posted on Wed, 06 Mar 2024

This most enjoyable first part of Marandina's magical tale set in York is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

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Posted in The Golden Fleece (Part One of Two)

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