Di_Hard
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My stories have been read 23577 times
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128 of my 1,170 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 129 votes
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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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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...
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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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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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this is lovely. If ever I got
Posted on Thu, 25 Oct 2018
this is lovely. If ever I got to choose where in the world I'd like to visit, it would be those maple trees when the leaves turn, I'd love to walk under them. Your poem makes a beautiful picture to help my imagining. I love "cradle of colour"...
Read full commentPosted in An Autumn of Leaves
one you need to read quite a
Posted on Sun, 21 Oct 2018
one you need to read quite a few times.
the other night there was a program about two asylum seekers from Ghana trying to get from America across the border into Canada, describing how in the snow they headed towards the lights of cars...
Read full commentPosted in From Roadside
Congratulations on 1000
Posted on Thu, 18 Oct 2018
Congratulations on 1000 pieces of writing, what an achievement! Reading your work has tought me a lot about using alliteration and rhythm, and your comments are the perfect example of how to give encouraging feedback
Read full commentPosted in Junk Mail
"To cut her off to and" didn
Posted on Tue, 16 Oct 2018
"To cut her off to and" didn't understand this line?
this is very angry! I hope you feel better now :0) It's like a speech out of Shakespeare
Read full commentPosted in Your Mother
PLEASE make this story of
Posted on Sat, 06 Oct 2018
PLEASE make this story of the month!
It's a wonderful read, thankyou so much for posting.
I'm so glad you have a cat friend :0) She is beautiful
Read full commentPosted in How writing (and a cat called Daisy) may have saved my life...
I'm not sure? It's the mark
Posted on Mon, 01 Oct 2018
I'm not sure? It's the mark of a good short story to reach a conclusion but leave the reader wanting to know what happens next :0)
However there's so much that could go deeper in your story, It's like you've shown one room perfectly, but...
Read full commentPosted in Winterkill (Part Two)
How I used to feel, painting,
Posted on Tue, 02 Oct 2018
How I used to feel, painting, there's this stream, or current, and the stream is the same for anyone who wants to make things, whether no one sees it or lots of people, it's the making that matters
I sympathise so much with the needing...
Read full commentPosted in 9 to 5
Thankyou for posting this! I
Posted on Sat, 29 Sep 2018
Thankyou for posting this! I think it's brave to be so open about everything. I'm glad the diagnosis has helped. One of the children I worked with, his Dad refused to let him be diagnosed so he didn't get all the help he could have. I'm not sure...
Read full commentPosted in A Martian in the Closet
this is one of those you find
Posted on Sat, 08 Sep 2018
this is one of those you find new bits in each time. So far my favourites are
Despite all this I know even less (I miss being so sure what the right thing to do was when I was younger)
Disordered files...
Read full commentPosted in Feeling Confused about Time
many clever lines in this,
Posted on Sat, 01 Sep 2018
many clever lines in this, particularly like the idea of hoovering up things wished unsaid! I know from my son talking to his friends online in chat writing how easy it is for things which if said with your voice would be known as a joke can seem...
Read full commentPosted in Healing or Provoking
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