Di_Hard

Primary tabs

I have 180 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 887974 times and 288 of my stories have been cherry picked.
2207 of my 6,236 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 2294 votes

Trusted critic
Di_Hard's picture

My stories

Cherry

"Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the Earth" Albert Schweitzer

we breathed each other's breath. It was enough once you sheltered within me. We were one before fences. I grew to know burning, soon you chose to...
Gold cherry

February Rainbow

snow cloud's blue, bomb ominous, blooms through beech trees' fragile dark raised bars that seek to cage west's brutal storms rampaging from unbroken...
2 likes
Cherry

BBBB

In rows, shining stems and identical, (almost) spikey tips, grey. Where could each take me? Their names gave nothing away : HB, 2B, etc pointless as...
3 likes
Cherry

Z is for Zing

home's in coming, going and holding time between in mud's dark-under, Spring rememberings begin image is by Boris Drenec off Flickr https://www...

Y is for Yule log and Yew

wood many suns' knowing, felled, burns through year's fear wall bird sown life outgrowing religions' rise and fall ~ this photo is byJonny Andrews...

Pages

2207 of my comments have received 2294 Great Feedback votes

2 Votes

Very interesting to read his

Posted on Fri, 02 Feb 2018

Very interesting to read his story. I only really knew of him from hearing an interview about how by the time they let working class people into Oxford it was so dummed down there was no point going there, and that the elites never accepted him...

Read full comment

Posted in Les Rowse, Philippe and I

2 Votes

You are quite right Tom, it's

Posted on Sun, 17 Sep 2017

You are quite right Tom, it's just a collection of nature scenes. It's just that I realised that someone from centuries ago could have seen them, too. And while I think of the wood as a beautiful place to go and see the sun and hear the birds....

Read full comment

Posted in time travelling

1 Vote

How Brave you are Jenny! To

Posted on Sun, 26 Apr 2026

How Brave you are Jenny! To go through the test AND to take the Lorazepam! You have my deepest admiration, Thank You so much for letting us know, and LOTS OF GOOD LUCK that you soon hear results which can be useful :0) XXX

Read full comment

Posted in Through The Mist Of Time

1 Vote

Pick of the Day is another

Posted on Fri, 01 May 2026

Pick of the Day is another beautiful fragment of fictional life in 1950's Essex, from Lille Dante. Please do share if you can

Read full comment

Posted in "Look At That Girl"

1 Vote

Great choice!

Posted on Sun, 26 Apr 2026

Great choice!
I hope your appointment went ok, Jenny

Read full comment

Posted in Through The Mist Of Time

1 Vote

This is BEAUTIFUL, Jenny,

Posted on Sun, 26 Apr 2026

This is BEAUTIFUL, Jenny, fabulous lines in every part! I love "repeated miracles" and "set my imagination to the sky" and your description of brave bees :0) Shows how huge your poetic ability, that you can write such gorgeous words when feeling...

Read full comment

Posted in Through The Mist Of Time

1 Vote

Great dialogue! And such a

Posted on Fri, 24 Apr 2026

Great dialogue! And such a switch over from the bleakness at the start!

Read full comment

Posted in Tom All Alone 14 (iv)

1 Vote

Velcro made such a difference

Posted on Fri, 24 Apr 2026

Velcro made such a difference :0) I remember feeling a milestone had been reached when I learned laces, and my son, too.
The feeling of terror as your Tom struggled on his own. Like everything conspired to isolate him from the start. I...

Read full comment

Posted in Tom All Alone 14 (iii)

1 Vote

Oh, hope this doesn't end

Posted on Fri, 24 Apr 2026

Oh, hope this doesn't end here, feel there is a brilliant Oblong twist coming up :0)

Read full comment

Posted in McCalliog and his hens (6)

1 Vote

Thought it might have been

Posted on Wed, 22 Apr 2026

Thought it might have been mysterious dark forces pretending to be a journalist, so that last bit came as a relief!

Read full comment

Posted in Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (19)

Pages