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I have 180 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 937006 times and 288 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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I sympathise with the

Posted on Mon, 19 Mar 2018

I sympathise with the narrator - you have so well described how stressful it is for children to keep foxes out of hen runs. Always straining your ears incase you miss their terrified clucking cackle, even when you are asleep.

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Posted in The Lad from Pointe de Bute (Chapters 13-14)

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Enjoyed this richly packed

Posted on Tue, 13 Mar 2018

Enjoyed this richly packed account, haiku like fitting a wardrobe of clothes into a brief case. Particularly liked the botanic garden in the storm, and patatas bravas in Burger King

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Posted in Coimbra Haiku

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I like this appreciation of

Posted on Thu, 01 Mar 2018

I like this appreciation of the uncomplicated but intense feelings of dogs.

Also sympathise with not being able to upload pictures. My partner is doing an OU computing degree but I dread asking for help because of the sighs :0)

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Posted in They all rolled over

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It is like you are suffering

Posted on Fri, 02 Mar 2018

It is like you are suffering from lack of oxygen, isn't it? Being stuck in the house, the frustration, somehow the best thing seems to be to shut down. Post meno pause I feel like Humpty Dumpty just thinking about climbing over a wall :0)

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Posted in Housebound

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yes, the space thing gets me,

Posted on Thu, 01 Mar 2018

yes, the space thing gets me, too. So busy looking for the remote possibility of life out there even as we wear away at any possibility of the amazing wonder that is Life continuing down here

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Posted in Jack Mutant - Which Way is Down? (part thirteen)

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Wonderful read, thankyou. Am

Posted on Sun, 25 Feb 2018

Wonderful read, thankyou. Am constantly amazed on here at the detail of other people's childhood memories. And books. I can read books I know I loved as a teenager bcause by a favourite author, but not remember the tiniest bit. You really brought...

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Posted in Uncle Patrick and The Age of Elegance

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I'm glad this is on the Home

Posted on Sat, 17 Feb 2018

I'm glad this is on the Home page as I'd missed it, and it's very good. I wondered why the me too thing is so big suddently, but can't be Brexit as America is all righteous about it too. My theory is mega companies trying to distract from not...

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Posted in Why Feminism - Me too?

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Particularly enjoyed critique

Posted on Fri, 23 Feb 2018

Particularly enjoyed critique of newspaper sizing. Important for newspapers to cater to all needs of readership

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Posted in Omar's Diary to 23rd February 2018 - football, lameness and sore ears

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It's like the song "Common

Posted on Wed, 21 Feb 2018

It's like the song "Common People" But there is also a thing about reinforcing the distance, a scramble to get on the high ground so smugness isn't threatened. These days trying to make everyone think the poor deserve to be poor, rather than are...

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Posted in coldest planet

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this is so simple, like the

Posted on Tue, 20 Feb 2018

this is so simple, like the one about the cold river, seems just about a second in time, but you have made it important and memorable. It's lovely

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Posted in Her Voice

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