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I have 180 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 779249 times and 288 of my stories have been cherry picked.
2166 of my 6,291 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2237 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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2166 of my comments have received 2237 Great Feedback votes

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OOh, I love the wind locking

Posted on Sun, 09 Mar 2025

OOh, I love the wind locking them all in! Brilliant to have everyone turning up, too. This is a FABULOUS installment :0)

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Posted in 'Willow's Missing Tail" 26

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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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