Di_Hard
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I have 180 stories published in
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My stories have been read 682931 times
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2024 of my 6,062 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2086 votes
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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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Present
Today's gift wrapped in light. Birdsong as foil ribbon unspools, bright slipping trills tying time together. The woods' snowdrops have come! Beside...
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comfort and joy (another go at this)
beside a garage the magnolia grew in grace, still-dance of slender curves, smooth grey stem arcs, loose laced, spacing light. Buds slept - tight...
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woods, late
walk in the company of streams through chill evening, day's ash, grey shadows clot into understanding night a deer starts awake, hastens to hide life...
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Be Leave
I'm tired as a bee buzzing against glass for cannot pass into sleep. The deep beyond thought. Unreached though mind's wings batter and long hours,...
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Pat is brutal :0) ‘Oh my god,
Posted on Thu, 16 Jan 2025
Pat is brutal :0) ‘Oh my god, he’s jumped,’ said Pat, holding her hands together in a prayer position and lifting them up to the tip of her hooked nose. ‘He’ll just be a pile of wires and gubbins on the patio. Stop looking, Vanessa, fetch me a...
Read full commentPosted in Parcel for You - Part 48
Very well deserved Pick of
Posted on Fri, 17 Jan 2025
Very well deserved Pick of the Week.
I really like this description : "The lipstick was a deep Doraldina crimson. He popped open the clutch and found face powder. Both were common brands. Nothing special. California, the department-store...
Read full commentPosted in The Patrolman - 4 (2/2)
Fabulous, again.
Posted on Fri, 17 Jan 2025
Fabulous, again.
Read full commentPosted in The Patrolman - 4 (1/2)
Beautiful writing. Not only
Posted on Fri, 10 Jan 2025
Beautiful writing. Not only the rhythm, but the portrait of Lenora. I loved the detail of heels wobbling on plush carpet, too
Read full commentPosted in The Patrolman - 3
Thankyou for sharing such a
Posted on Tue, 21 Jan 2025
Thankyou for sharing such a beautiful walk! I am glad you had a lovely sunny day in more of your spectacular countryside
Read full commentPosted in Above Bishop’s Castle
It's ok being a serious
Posted on Mon, 20 Jan 2025
It's ok being a serious intellectual when everything is not going seriously wrong? Times like now, laughter is needed very much! Also you imply comedy is easier, not sure about that. There's timing and rhythm like in poetry, only with characters...
Read full commentPosted in Jacques and Basil
I liked how your Alice is the
Posted on Fri, 17 Jan 2025
I liked how your Alice is the one with the frying pan, as opposed to the lady who was hanged for killing her abusive husband.
Read full commentStarving children should be remembered
Posted in The Golden Fleece (Ghost Walk) Part Two of Two
Reading this is a very
Posted on Sun, 19 Jan 2025
Reading this is a very welcome antidote to that speech from America, today!
Read full commentI agree, is a huge shame on our parliament that self interest overcame the greater good in the housing issue
interesting you call them the Clumsy Party - my...
Posted in 21st Century Saviour : Prime Minister Alfred Muggins!
That's not true! The
Posted on Fri, 17 Jan 2025
That's not true! The policemen are always funny!
Read full commentPosted in Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick (Dead Reckoning series - Part 44)
As Jenny says, tension really
Posted on Fri, 17 Jan 2025
As Jenny says, tension really building, now!
Read full commentPosted in Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick (Dead Reckoning series - Part 44)
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