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I have 180 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 736107 times and 288 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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change of address

houses are envelopes posted through time recipients changing letters put in, taken out. From the War son, brother, father, lost mother upstairs, her...
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pondering

jelly ellipsis or small eyeballs with tiny pupils, or thought bubbles, each containing a full stop No! A full beginning a drip of ink After some...
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First Walk Of April

Step on a moon stone to cross the stream - Van Gogh’s Starry Night - willow flowers pollen halo’d in swirling water.dark. Sun-coin's cloud-pursed. In...
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herring gull gallantry

If you wait till half past six there's cheap bread at the Co op or donuts for 16p. So now, after chores are done I put on my coat (it's still cold...

not just a citrus

Sunny smelling mangoes and carrots for a snowman's nose rough and griity builders' sand or some ducks from knees to toes. Pumpkins carved on...
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2114 of my comments have received 2179 Great Feedback votes

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Congratulations! This is Poem

Posted on Tue, 04 Mar 2025

Congratulations! This is Poem of the Week!

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Posted in Killed By Cows

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I love the characters you

Posted on Mon, 03 Mar 2025

I love the characters you share in your Diaries, like this : "The toothless old widow who sits beneath the pomegranate tree in the square told me that her favourite Anton Chekov quote was ‘People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when...

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Posted in The Archers in Cyrillic Script

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yes, you are so right about

Posted on Sat, 01 Mar 2025

yes, you are so right about it needing to be very thin! Wish I had understood that before the first time I made Marmite sandwiches - I put way too much on and had to spread it round lots more bread to be edible, then had to persuade everybody...

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Posted in Love it or hate it … ?

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Maybe the news just now, but

Posted on Fri, 28 Feb 2025

Maybe the news just now, but Cedric putting his arm up made me think he might have been taught a dodgy salute, all sorts of problems that might cause. i loved the squid lorry, like everybody else. And Spencer mentioning how Crate didn't wear...

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Posted in Parcel for you - Part 54

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" “Twins!” " What an

Posted on Fri, 28 Feb 2025

" “Twins!” " What an intriguing ending :0) And I wonder what DS Stone will do while his boss is in the Bahamas. Thankyou so much for creating such a fun story, have really enjoyed every part

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Posted in So The Story Goes (Dead Reckoning series - Part 50)

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This is so beautiful, Jenny!

Posted on Fri, 28 Feb 2025

This is so beautiful, Jenny! I can watch them for ages, but could never have thought up this amazing poem, you have really caught their grace and insouciant fragility, as well as their environment. Brilliant

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Posted in Skating Without Ice

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You show in your poem how

Posted on Tue, 25 Feb 2025

You show in your poem how beautiful twilight can be. In the woods sometimes there is a pink glow then, magical like a time to pass between worlds, like you do here, going through the worlds of music and wonderful writing

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Posted in In Twilight Years

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it makes me sad and scared

Posted on Tue, 25 Feb 2025

it makes me sad and scared for us, that children grow up now never hearing birds or wind in trees, only the hostile man-made sounds from which it is um natural to seek escape. How much human interaction must be lost, too. Your poem goes so well...

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Posted in Awake??

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You make such good points

Posted on Tue, 25 Feb 2025

You make such good points here, Rhiannon

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Posted in Awake??

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Loved "Taint the brush in

Posted on Tue, 25 Feb 2025

Loved "Taint the brush in mystery", you conjure up riches and magic beautifully all through

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Posted in Deep in the Land of REM

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