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I have 180 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 937137 times and 288 of my stories have been cherry picked.
2263 of my 6,378 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2358 votes

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Cherry

renewable

Bluebell slopes shimmer bright green shade full of cool incense. Then across the field airy Rumplestiltskins white, slim as bird bones spin, slow...
Gold cherry

cotyledons

winter fingered earth safed. Now joined as prayer clasped hands they come up from darkness forgotten hopes open for the sun. Fragile, green growing...

on the way to the letterbox

On trees, sky high blossom's pure, untouchable pink. Fallen, fresh soft coolness mixes with dust and thorns.
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Cherry

wind

Come home from far across the sea no soft shawled shoulders welcome the wanderer - nor familiar comforting arms catch me from the race, save me from...
Cherry

hearth song

This is not a flame quivering in every misunderstanding or longing that flares in the pull of absence nor forest fire, consuming all needs, breath...

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2263 of my comments have received 2358 Great Feedback votes

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I like how you are

Posted on Sat, 16 Aug 2025

I like how you are introducing all the characters from the first part. And Marcus Whale is great - scary, wild, hurt, always on the outside. Did the dog want to stay in the lift, or go out if the doors opened somewhere interesting? There is a...

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Posted in The Vale - Chapter 6

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I read your poem first, then

Posted on Sun, 17 Aug 2025

I read your poem first, then went to the link. Had not realised that kind of music was Jazz, although I have heard it before, always thought it was related to Tango. How amazing he could do that with only two fingers on one of his hands! And that...

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Posted in Django, Gitáno Gitaristo (Django, Gypsy Guitarist)

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Another wonderful instalment

Posted on Sun, 17 Aug 2025

Another wonderful instalment :0) Gwladys is BRILLIANT!

ps you have him sleeping in the woods under the "starts"?

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Posted in Lofted (Episode 21 - The Further Chronicles of a Young Lady (and her Maid))

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This is so lovely, Jenny

Posted on Thu, 14 Aug 2025

This is so lovely, Jenny

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Posted in Fragments Of Life

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Scozen :0) Thank You so much

Posted on Tue, 05 Aug 2025

Scozen :0) Thank You so much for reading. You come from Loch Lomond! We live on one of the islands, but may be moving to be nearer Edinburgh, as my son has a place at Napier, and it is going to be a wrench. I am so happy to have taken you back to...

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Posted in before Floris

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not sure you meant "marking

Posted on Wed, 13 Aug 2025

not sure you meant "marking time" like this, but i love the idea of the patterns in the sky being a huge, incomprehensible angelic version of our clock face. I really liked "languorous" too, as it sounds like long, giving another impression of...

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Posted in Borealis

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How lovely to find such a

Posted on Tue, 12 Aug 2025

How lovely to find such a treasure, out of the blue! Your Father's poem so full of love. I am glad to hear you filled your postcards all up, as I used to, also :0)

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Posted in Discovered old postcards

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In memory of Seashore, this

Posted on Fri, 29 Oct 2010

In memory of Seashore, this beautiful poem is Pick of the Day. Please do share if you can

the photo is from here :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki...

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Posted in St Ives, Summer 1993

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You are right, Luigi! I hadn

Posted on Sat, 09 Aug 2025

You are right, Luigi! I hadn't imagined when first getting a computer decades ago, how very important this would be, to make friends which I find hard in actual life. Your poem is a lovely tribute to those whose kindness and talent flowed and...

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Posted in Friendship

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I have been learning a little

Posted on Thu, 07 Aug 2025

I have been learning a little about what happened to witches, how terrifying it must have been. And so many people killed! One website said women in Scotland would have been relieved when Cromwell invaded, because he stopped the witch hunts!!!...

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Posted in Woodsman And The Medicine Woman.

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