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I have 180 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 828553 times and 288 of my stories have been cherry picked.
2208 of my 6,386 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2286 votes

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between

hills are mirrors reflecting dreams bullet hole sun through sky window air comes in shards blown out, cutting rainbow bridges instants of sea...
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gorse

wild yellow, bold, bee-full, gladsome glory yellow glowing gifts grow, spirit lifting sweet, small yellow flames, lip-soft, scented, bright tip dull...
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view

My neighbour had seen me, slow pulling my shopping up the road had waved and cheerily bellowed "Can you not go faster?" Below his renovated house,...
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untravelling path

a memory of walking worn between trees into moss and fallen leaves. A parting as through hair, to tame or make bindable a growing thing shod foot...
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driverless

the more people run away the less there is to escape to the more beauty we buy the less room we have for truth we fuel our vehicles with tomorrows...
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2208 of my comments have received 2286 Great Feedback votes

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Beautiful, Rhiannon. You are

Posted on Thu, 10 Jul 2025

Beautiful, Rhiannon. You are so clever to fit the original meaning into new words, and still have rhyme, I don't know how translators manage this, but you have, here, so well. I love "stirring your joy again, again"

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Posted in Daffodil

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This really does have the

Posted on Thu, 10 Jul 2025

This really does have the sense of being in a dream, everything too sudden and total. Will try to remember to face tigers. I liked very much the stripes, of light and shadow, of forgotten and unforgotten, of waking and unwaking. "primal fears and...

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Posted in I Dreamt of Tigers

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Have just heard on the news

Posted on Mon, 07 Jul 2025

A few days after you posted this, have just heard on the news about mothers, pregnant women and children queueing for supplements to help with the malnutrition caused by Netanyahu's blockade. Bombed. One of the 8 children killed is a little one...

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Posted in Fifty Shades of Death

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Brilliant :0) Glad Farzanah

Posted on Wed, 09 Jul 2025

Brilliant :0) Glad Farzanah was ok, hope she is, still. If I were a high up in her country, would be working my socks off to get a bomb finished before that happened again. Hope Sofi's back is better by now, and that hasn't put her off hydrangeas...

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Posted in If I Were a Fish

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From fireflies to fig sap,

Posted on Tue, 08 Jul 2025

From fireflies to fig sap, imagining Marlene Dietrich in a bus shelter to beating Lyme's disease, Turlough's diary entry for June is a great read, which is why it is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

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Posted in Marlene Dietrich’s Gappy Teeth

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This part struck me most

Posted on Mon, 07 Jul 2025

This part struck me most strongly, as not talked about on the news etc
"Yes, mothers often pay the price
with holy wartime sacrifice:
in flight, miscarried embryos!
Quite slow as ethnic cleansing goes,
but...

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Posted in Fifty Shades of Death

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Enjoyed very much, too. How

Posted on Sun, 06 Jul 2025

Enjoyed very much, too. How lovely for you to see what your cat got up to :0) Thank you for sharing your memory

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Posted in Tibbs Out On The Tiles

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Such a sense of being an

Posted on Fri, 04 Jul 2025

Such a sense of being an imposter. I guess Fox is a part of the narrator, as opposed to everyone else who belongs to a strange world. How you have office politics, and what's for tea, mixed in with memories of another planet is really good.

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Posted in The Vale - Part 1 (c)

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Wonderful IP response, thank

Posted on Sat, 05 Jul 2025

Wonderful IP response, thank you!

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Posted in The lisping god of small things

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This completely wonderful,

Posted on Fri, 04 Jul 2025

This completely wonderful, incandescently genius story from Drew is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

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Posted in Born on the 4th of July

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