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I have 180 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 950322 times and 288 of my stories have been cherry picked.
2275 of my 6,424 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2370 votes

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Gold cherry

RJC

His face is the waves of shipwreck slants and slashes, all going down while hand light-holds a brush to make blank paper open up like dawn to...
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Cherry

WWW

August 23rd. The Woods. Strung across all paths, intricate, unseen webs split space into gossamer satellite dishes till afternoon sun's gold caress...
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logging evidence of us

Diesel tang rank above sweet grasses' long soft tongues, broken. Small birds' fear shrills still in re pooling peace. Within woods' broached haven...
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Cherry

part 14

Broken trees under a trail of slime, a squelching sound nearby, growing nearer, nearer, the huge slimey red lips of the giant slug reared up and onto...
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sound escape

Earth's first touch for reaching sun, iron age hill fort looks out over ground held in molten blue, above all sound, save wind's unseen tongue...
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2275 of my comments have received 2370 Great Feedback votes

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You really have given it

Posted on Thu, 07 Nov 2024

You really have given it character! There seems something welcoming about the sea here, on the West. And it is amazing how different light is, the purple that gets into everything. I guess on the East, there's always the sense that cold weather...

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Posted in East Coast Scotland (Reflection)

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You made me think how Lego

Posted on Thu, 10 Oct 2024

You made me think how Lego has become like gold, to be handed down, and added to over generations! And imagined that others in your family made things from the same bricks - it is almost like DNA :0)
The trouble with those expensive sets is...

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Posted in Wee Plastic Hats Off to Ole Kirk Christiansen!

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Glad you think all her songs

Posted on Thu, 26 Sep 2024

Glad you think all her songs sound the same, too :0) Brilliant IP response, Thankyou! Find it so interesting that she endorsed Harris, and Musk endorsed Trump, two very powerful opposites in social media? Maybe she really does make white noise,...

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Posted in On the Wind

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You Poor One! So sorry things

Posted on Tue, 03 Sep 2024

You Poor One! So sorry things are so horrible still. It is like you to think of helping others by writing of your experience in the MRI. I am glad that found there is nothing extra wrong with your back, as that must mean once you have your other...

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Posted in Can Life Get Better?

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This very powerful expression

Posted on Sun, 01 Sep 2024

This very powerful expression of what so many of us feel, is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

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Posted in They Were Only Children

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As CM said, Summer up here

Posted on Sat, 17 Aug 2024

As CM said, Summer up here has been and gone. Not sure more than 2 weeks of days with any sunshine, where we live. But your poem makes me grateful not to be somewhere more meteorologically exuberant! I do hope you get your rainy coolness by bed...

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Posted in No Country for Cold Men

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Brilliant :0) I love that

Posted on Tue, 16 Jul 2024

Brilliant :0) I love that wearing a toadstool hat can make a person blend in. Also, intrigued how happy Spencer is that Vanessa will buy him a present. Oh, and how she says "No" about him smoking, imagining smoke coming out of "my gaps" could...

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Posted in Parcel for you...Part 29

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So many great stories and

Posted on Wed, 22 May 2024

So many great stories and poems today, choosing was really hard. This piece by Marandina, intriguing and full of wonderful description will have you instantly hooked, and it is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

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Posted in The 16:03 to Purgatory (Part One of Two)

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Jane Hyphen's encounter with

Posted on Fri, 03 May 2024

Jane Hyphen's unsettling encounter with what seems like the opposite of her guardian angel is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

The image is from here :
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Posted in Ratface

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Thankyou so much, Jean, both

Posted on Fri, 15 Mar 2024

Thankyou so much, Jean, both for sharing your inspiring Spirit of braveness and intelligence, imagination and humour, and also the kindness of your comments. I had to go to hospital for a check up recently and started having a panic attack, but...

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Posted in The End - part 2

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