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I have 180 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 985816 times and 288 of my stories have been cherry picked.
2338 of my 6,582 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2443 votes

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Poem of the week

grass/july

Afternoon sun slants ghosts of gold bars through long shadow fingers. Green lush labyrinth layer on layer reaches, welcomes light. Stream's dark...
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18th June Woods and back

When sun rules the year and all frost's armies turned to mist long burned up like cold caution warm calm, balmy days come seeming ceaseless. Wearing...
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the train leaving now

In my rush to get to the right platform looking for signs to where I want to go it's easy to miss changing announcements so when a train pulls in,...
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Pick of the Month

bluebells

Lush warm blue. Radiant. Rain cool bells, fresh celestial pigment, space untempered slipped, low, through trees - solemn grey, hushed, host this deep...
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rock

I remember the barnacles that scratched when I clung to your steep side as waves crashed; they found you first on your journey through life -...

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2338 of my comments have received 2443 Great Feedback votes

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I enjoyed this IP response

Posted on Sat, 21 Feb 2026

I enjoyed this IP response very much, Thank You. Also for explaining about cup measurements which are in so many recipes online, am never sure if cups are the same here as in America - I think perhaps I am being too pernicketty!

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Posted in Recipe for My Daughter

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Congratulations! This is Poem

Posted on Wed, 18 Feb 2026

Congratulations! This is Poem of the Week!

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Posted in Arabesque

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I am so glad you are carrying

Posted on Tue, 17 Feb 2026

Very glad you are carrying on with this story :0) You are SO GOOD at dialogue, really enjoying the developing relationship!

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Posted in "Art of Trouble" 9

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I am really enjoying this.

Posted on Tue, 17 Feb 2026

I am really enjoying this. More than previous stories even. I like how it feels grounded in a real place, too

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Posted in Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (10)

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Wonderful narrative voice,

Posted on Fri, 20 Feb 2026

Wonderful narrative voice, endearing hero, great settings and interesting plot make this children's Vampire story your fabulous Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

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Posted in Do Vampires Day Dream - Rewrite Prologue, Chapter One & Chapter Two

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So many brilliant

Posted on Thu, 12 Feb 2026

So many brilliant descriptions! That strangeness of getting up very early and driving through pre dawn darkness, the specialness of pepsi in glasses from the pub where you stopped for lunch. I remember those :0) Your description of caravans like...

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Posted in Tom All Alone (12)

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There was a program on the

Posted on Fri, 06 Feb 2026

There was a program on the radio recently about the nuclear missiles in Cuba, which made me think of you :0) I hadn't realised that the Russian missiles were heat sensitive, so as Cuba is very hot and humid the Russian commander looking after...

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Posted in Just in Case

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"rigid, entwined with

Posted on Tue, 10 Feb 2026

"rigid, entwined with rambling ivy;

yet assembled for slithering motion

most strange."

Jenny's wonderful poem inspired by a woodcarving is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

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Posted in Let's Make Believe

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I like your first two lines

Posted on Thu, 05 Feb 2026

I like your first two lines so much, showing how night time can seem like a different world, your walk home must have been very special, and your memory stays so clear between writing on a wall to writing about that writing here, even if the full...

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Posted in Long ago Thoughts

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I love the evocation of

Posted on Mon, 02 Feb 2026

I love the evocation of contentment and peace, everyone enjoying the sun, like cats :0) And your remembering your cock pit! Knowing how you hated school once you got there, is like Winter in bleakness and inevitability. My memory was intended for...

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Posted in Tom All Alone (11)

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