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I have 180 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 680954 times and 288 of my stories have been cherry picked.
2020 of my 6,052 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2082 votes

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Walking home from shopping 8/3/18

You know how, if you find a piece of quartz on the beach and hold it up to the light you can see white, cream and amber fractured bright as the...
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predator (just re uploaded)

snow lies outside waiting like a cat thick fluffy fur white gleaming flat bumper deep cars lurk stuck fast as burrs in streets shaken by sky ripping...
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Lethe

Forgetting things is so scary like standing on a bank a river is eating away at. My Dad died of dementia unable to talk. My son hates that I want to...
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It's all about bread

It is important to be able to look down on your enemy. Though they are not enemies rather bread and butter. That sort of spongy white pap I wouldn't...
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emperor's new clothes

Invisible fresh air is cut and sewn when whistles, chirps and warbles sweetly shear off from sky's roll of space, as silk ribon freed, catches light...

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2020 of my comments have received 2082 Great Feedback votes

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Just so long as it's not

Posted on Tue, 08 Oct 2024

Just so long as it's not direct debit, as then they can put it up without telling. And she might find it really hard to unsubscribe. (Or, maybe she could ask for Spencer to get really brainy as an update and he could unsubscribe for her? Would he...

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Posted in Parcel for You...Part 37

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A brave and beautiful

Posted on Mon, 07 Oct 2024

A brave and beautiful poem from Jenny is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

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Posted in Magic Of Youth

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Hi Jenny, thankyou for this

Posted on Mon, 07 Oct 2024

Hi Jenny, thankyou for this lovely poem, I can imagine you very clearly, looking up at the gulls :0) I love watching them too, sure they are enjoying flying, riding the wind :0) I have been thinking often about you as the days get closer to 11th...

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Posted in Magic Of Youth

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I liked this very much, feel

Posted on Mon, 07 Oct 2024

I liked this very much, feel cruel when lifting something in the garden, turn the woodlice world upside down, had never thought of it being like being forced to confront the endless sky. How lies can be more understandable, more comforting than...

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Posted in Prospecting

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I loved your description of

Posted on Tue, 08 Oct 2024

I loved your description of being a tom-boy and play-fighting :0) You have brought happy family life and care and love into your poem about toys. Cross-eyed Bear made me smile, too. I guess not wanting the train set but being interested in your...

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Posted in Kathleen, Gladly, Teleri

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Lovely to read another

Posted on Sun, 06 Oct 2024

Lovely to read another instalment of your super story :0) I loved Willow's purr magic!

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Posted in "Willow's Missing Tail" 19

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WONDERFUL to read! Thankyou

Posted on Sun, 06 Oct 2024

WONDERFUL to read! Thankyou so much for posting

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Posted in Tom Tom Turnaround (5) (ii)

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I hope Archibald didn't carry

Posted on Fri, 04 Oct 2024

I hope Archibald didn't carry the tea trolley back, then put the wheel on when he got there, sort of thing he might do :0) you have put the cliffhanger in the middle for a change. I am trying to think Who is it the detectives are going to find...

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Posted in Walking on Sunshine (Dead Reckoning series - Part 29)

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I find this beautiful,

Posted on Fri, 04 Oct 2024

I find this beautiful, stripping the mind right down, and finding love

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Posted in Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Reflection

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My son is often asking where

Posted on Thu, 03 Oct 2024

My son is often asking where I would most like to go, and I say a Greek island, because of Gerald Durrel. Now because of you, too. Very glad your beautiful poem got Pick of the Week. I am so very sorry Crado has not come back yet

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Posted in The Old Man and the Libyan Sea

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