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I have 179 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 666093 times and 285 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1998 of my 6,013 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2061 votes

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Poem of the week

june 20th

wind plays liquid dominoe runs with grass, seeds soft amethyst sea. Below azure smooth, boats small as white moths rising from our feet as we wade...
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threshold - another go at this

At woods' beginning, lapped in May's riches : cobalt-violet periwinkles peep through indigo hung croziers - bluebells' throng - sleek-cool, sap-full...
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Poem of the week

28th April

from a house roof chimneys like trumpet valve keys release a soaring solo seagull's heartbeat into untouched silence beside this pavement wind-lipped...
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virus

Rain pulses on a tarmac eel grey muscles sleeking down to town. Dock leaves’ green fanfares burst from dark mud and trees seethe with finches’ cheeps...
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rivers

rivers - once revered liquid addresses for deities of equilibrium with gravity pull caravans of wet welded into muscled power, sprung from Earth like...

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1998 of my comments have received 2061 Great Feedback votes

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I can imagine it all too

Posted on Tue, 07 Jan 2025

I can imagine it all too easily! Possibly (fool's) gold, definitely glowing. But Musk's will be bigger, he will make his face in the sky with satellites to look like stars

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Posted in A statue of you

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Enjoyed this part, and that

Posted on Fri, 20 Dec 2024

Enjoyed this part, and that posted today, very much. The rhythm all on its own is great

Don't know how pernickety you like your suggestions -

"That morning felt more like March than December. The sky was a rinsed-out blue like a...

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Posted in The Patrolman - 1

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I liked this a lot, too. How

Posted on Thu, 09 Jan 2025

I liked this a lot, too. How you describe the outer wide space of the beach, and the inner space each of us carries. As if afraid of another's footprints in one's mind, but also the possibility for there being a new beach, a new horizon, in the...

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Posted in Sonnet in Silence

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That must have been so awful

Posted on Wed, 08 Jan 2025

That must have been so awful for you. You describe it really well. I am sorry. My Mum has just passed, and we are going to have to do this. Though losing someone close must always be terrible, how quickly your brother passed away, that must have...

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Posted in "Before They Call, I Will Answer, While They Are Still Speaking, I Will Hear." Part Five.

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She really did! I never met

Posted on Sun, 05 Jan 2025

She really did! I never met her after she left school, though I know she got married, and had children. Dusty might not have been your type, either - would she have been ok with huge, poisonous millipede things and power cuts and cats breaking...

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Posted in Making Do with Dusty Springfield

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Love

Posted on Sun, 05 Jan 2025

Love

"Gravestones leant against the red brick wall

Like dockers waiting for work"

and this bit reminds me of so many times at school

"‘At night I dream we are kissing

Then when I wake up you’re missing,...

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Posted in Making Do with Dusty Springfield

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Happy New Year to you, too!

Posted on Fri, 03 Jan 2025

Happy New Year to you, too! And Thankyou so much for all your wonderfully funny writing in 2024

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Posted in Nowhere Man (Dead Reckoning series - Part 42)

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I am reading a book just now

Posted on Fri, 03 Jan 2025

I am reading a book just now which does this "where we are now, and who has done what" stuff, and in there it is boring, but you have not written yours in the same way at all!

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Posted in Nowhere Man (Dead Reckoning series - Part 42)

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This fabulous, stressful

Posted on Thu, 02 Jan 2025

This fabulous, stressful episode from Jane Hyphen's brilliant story of the marriage of Vanessa and Cybermate Spencer, is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

Jane, the image is from here :
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Posted in Parcel for You - Part 46

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Because of Ewan's comment,

Posted on Thu, 02 Jan 2025

Because of Ewan's comment, looked up BDSM, goodness knows what will happen to my algorithms now :0)
Being attacked by a pack of stray dogs must have been terrifying! I would be too scared to go there again. There are two airedales here,...

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Posted in Mad Dogs and Donkeys

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