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I have 180 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 1028868 times and 288 of my stories have been cherry picked.
2366 of my 6,664 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2476 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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2366 of my comments have received 2476 Great Feedback votes

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Thank You so much for giving

Posted on Fri, 15 May 2026

Thank You so much for giving your time to reply, Jenny :0) I am glad you are to have pills, hope this happens soon!
It sounds magic being in the garden as the birds wake up :0) Secret time.
Take care of yourself
XXX

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Posted in Where Thoughts Take Me

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In the last few lines,

Posted on Tue, 26 May 2026

In the last few lines, Amandarella reties the string twice?

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Posted in Amanderella and the Mystery of the Moor Chap.9

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This is great! Having the

Posted on Tue, 26 May 2026

This is great! Having the goodies being taken over and used by an unseen force, and those around not knowing, is really sinister.

And Danielle left no note!

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Posted in Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (22)

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Lovely biology lesson,

Posted on Tue, 26 May 2026

Lovely biology lesson, Rhiannon :0) I liked particularly how your first part seems to flow together, like leaves moving easily, and you have the tense, stiff sound of "gripping" and "sucking" in the second part, the hardness of ""pound" and "...

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Posted in Roots

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"News" was always a nightmare

Posted on Tue, 26 May 2026

"News" was always a nightmare! And so unfair on those of us who didn't do exciting stuff. There should always be an option to explore imagination, the gift that boredom brings.
Your dilemmas here of which truths to tell, is so well written...

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Posted in Tom All Alone 16 (ii)

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This must have been so

Posted on Tue, 26 May 2026

This must have been so frightening! "Their house had always been safe." First having to venture out into the strangeness of school, only to find the foundations of home being threatened - and your Mum's feelings, too, brilliantly described

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Posted in Tom All Alone 16 (i)

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Hi Jenny, am thinking of you.

Posted on Fri, 15 May 2026

Hi Jenny, am thinking of you. Hope you are ok and not too hot! Lots of love XXX

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Posted in Where Thoughts Take Me

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You have brilliantly created

Posted on Wed, 20 May 2026

You have brilliantly created such a sense of stress, being attacked by others' opinions! This is one of your wonderful pieces, like a musical composition, the pure clear note, at the end

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Posted in Clamouring voices

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The start of a new adventure

Posted on Tue, 19 May 2026

This start of a new adventure for the indomitable Amandarella is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

The image is from here : https://...

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Posted in Amanderella and the Mystery of the Moor Chap.2

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Oh, Please post more

Posted on Sun, 17 May 2026

Oh, Please post more Amandarella stories! I am so glad to hear they were written for specific children, it is lovely to imagine generations being told about these wonderful adventures

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Posted in Amanderella Gottsnobbler and the Bangolin Tree Chapter 16

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