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I have 180 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 880563 times and 288 of my stories have been cherry picked.
2201 of my 6,228 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2288 votes

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Gold cherry

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'...
Cherry

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...
Cherry

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...
Cherry

storm cooking

unseen fingers flex kneading clouds of soughing dough as gulls white flakes, salt flavour here and now with calls of far dangers journeyed on sea's...

pinned

Today I forgot my PIN number. I think it's all the contactless there is now. How easy it is to go without needing to say hello or reply. Or touch...
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2201 of my comments have received 2288 Great Feedback votes

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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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Your mother is so brave, for

Posted on Thu, 03 Jul 2025

Your mother is so brave, for having done as he asked, as he needed. Imagine, had he died, and she had not lain in the grass with him, she would have felt it must be her fault. But she could not have any blame for giving him a moment of peace. She...

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Posted in The Gesture

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Recently I have been shaking

Posted on Wed, 02 Jul 2025

Recently I have been shaking so much, and don't know, wonder if it is thinking of this. It is the trappedness that makes it seem worse, being held prisoner till agreeing to give up what's yours, being encouraged to this end by starvation, no...

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Posted in Up to Their Ears in Tears

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I love that comment about

Posted on Tue, 01 Jul 2025

I love that comment about service stations, you make them seem places for time travellers, too. Or, as in your story, modern in-between places, our stone circles/fairy rings.

Had not read your original version of this, but the one i have...

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Posted in Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (2)

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Don't know what to say.

Posted on Wed, 02 Jul 2025

Don't know what to say. Thought I might quote some lines, then realised it is the whole of every part.
What is it doing to everyone? Those in there, suffering death, injury, loss because of the inaction of those outside; those outside...

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Posted in Up to Their Ears in Tears

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I hope your grief heals over

Posted on Fri, 27 Jun 2025

I hope your grief heals over so you are not aware of hurting all the time. This is fabulous but I am so sorry

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Posted in This Sad Blister

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