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I have 177 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 399737 times and 278 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1515 of my 5,108 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1556 votes

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Spring a Butterfly

Dusty cocoon of box tight packed through warmer days deep green wire limbed larvi unbends into branches of frizzy plastic tree tall, when you both...
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not ready to fly yet

cat on the bed looks up as I go in he lies on the floor curled as if fallen like a leaf still in school uniform the chrysalis of his face asleep next...
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clues

Pheonix feathers ruffle beneath the cherry trees on pavement by the letterbox and shed gold of a giant lion molten on the road's curve near the park'...
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mushroom movement

green grown gown gauzy grass grace solid soil lid down wonder on grains gain rain sense tense dense silent silt still eel slick icky cling linger...
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blackberries

prussian purple sprays, each sweet-swollen round of rounds bursts with crimson juice, stalk-thrust out as if reaching to fill Autumn's hungry gaze or...

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1515 of my comments have received 1556 Great Feedback votes

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Loved how every interaction

Posted on Fri, 07 Jul 2023

Loved how every interaction with an Australian person centred around beer :0) And your photo is wonderful, exactly as you describe. Very glad you are clean and in a bed at the end! What a journey! And another part still to go!

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Posted in Miss Australia 1978 – Part Three of Four

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This made me think of your

Posted on Tue, 04 Jul 2023

This made me think of your story Tommyknocker. Though the circumstances of the takings are different, it sort of seems a completion, now you have two brothers reunited. Also the thought that someone who seems strange to other humans finds where...

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Posted in Ley Lines

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Enjoyed very much Jenny. The

Posted on Tue, 04 Jul 2023

Enjoyed very much Jenny. The thing is though, if you had had a camera then, you might have not felt everything around you the way you did, to make this intense memory? Because you would have been looking for a composition to fit in the edges of...

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Posted in It's Too Late For Things Missed

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BRILLIANT to see you back :0

Posted on Mon, 03 Jul 2023

BRILLIANT to see you back :0) This is WONDERFUL, enjoyed SO MUCH! I remember now how reading your stuff would want it not to end, and this is how it is with this too. Particularly liked the pigeons doing ablutions and policewomen/a few men...

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Posted in The Bratislava Pálava - Part One of Two

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Wow! That IS good news! Am

Posted on Thu, 22 Jun 2023

Wow! That IS good news! Am so glad you are having a break from all the medicine and get to enjoy little pleasures again. What a terrific fighter you are. And guessing correctly that it was your spleen that was the new issue, you really know so...

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Posted in Is or Isn't Lena

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BRILLIANT!

Posted on Tue, 20 Jun 2023

BRILLIANT!
Loved "shadowbeasts", and "silver coins in a collection plate", and "peninsulas of their existence"
the strangeness, cold, hugeness and awe of endless blue

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Posted in The Seafarer

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Lovely and well deserved Pick

Posted on Fri, 16 Jun 2023

Lovely and well deserved Pick of the Week! Also well chuffed if Rango was a tiny bit of inspiration :0) He would like it very much if I offered him fresh fish, I think :0) Your writing group will LOVE this story! Although, rather than being...

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Posted in A Cat, A Leaf and Fresh Fish

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Wonderful descriptions! You

Posted on Fri, 09 Jun 2023

Wonderful descriptions! You are a genius at describing so richly a place, in only a few words so I am hardly aware of reading before I am there. I loved " delicate pink gems of wild rose" they are the hedgerow treasure for me, too :0)

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Posted in June Roadsides

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so many lovely lines!

Posted on Tue, 13 Jun 2023

so many lovely lines!
"Through woodland in silence...
drawn softly into shadows...
where saplings through half light / rise...
in transient stillness, breathing...
secrets that only the inhabitants of wildlife know...

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Posted in Splendour Of The Woods

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perfect!

Posted on Sun, 04 Jun 2023

perfect!

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Posted in "A Little Rhyme"

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