Ed Crane
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I have 291 stories published in
one collection on the site.
My stories have been read 504566 times
and 295 of my stories have been cherry picked.
232 of my 2,142 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 244 votes
My stories
Old Zealand's Secret Beaches
Ok they aren’t really secret, but if you drive on the roads near the Zeeland coast you’d never know they were there. When I came to live in Belgium...
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Heracleum Metnegazzianum
A mass of pure white blooms parachute a hidden menace: Look but don’t touch! Admire from a safe distance. A Caucasian invader brought to titivate the...
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Dobe Island; My Place in the Sun
I have no copies of my island so here is Gran Canaria courtesy of Wiki
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Why Me?
What have I done to deserve this? First you bundled me in the car and took me to that dreaded place where every year the nice lady sticks needles in...
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New Directions (36)
‘If that’s where he lives we should get over there now.’ I said already getting up. ‘Easy there Lone Ranger, let’s find out a little more about the...
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Well done Ewan (and Rachel for the pick)
Posted on Wed, 24 Nov 2021
Regardless of one's political colour, this guy is in the wrong place and should recognise his ineptitude urgently before he does something really dangerous.
https://www.youtube.com/...
Read full commentPosted in It Seems Our Leader Is Unwell
Congrats on pick of the week
Posted on Thu, 30 Sep 2021
A very informative poem about a mostly overlooked fish described in a very delicate way. Good to see these important small small creatures brought into the limelight. Nicely done.
Ed
Read full commentPosted in Stone Loach
I'm back :)
Posted on Sun, 10 May 2020
There seems to be some very good poems on here recently, but I have to say this is one of the best poems I have ever read on here. If it doesn't make poem of the month there's no justice.
Anyway, that aside, what struck me is the picture...
Read full commentPosted in Cinderella river
How did I miss this? Where was I on October 4th
Posted on Fri, 04 Oct 2019
This has to be one of your very best, and one of the best I've ever seen on ABC.
The four opening lines hit me right between the eyes. I spent half my working life on the road and your descripion of chain pubs is awesome. I've stayed in...
Read full commentPosted in Never trust a writer
Mornin' Harry
Posted on Tue, 16 Oct 2018
I read with great interest your story and your replies to other comments and it got me thinking about your situation and those with the similar problems.
Now, I don't want to be-little autism by any means, but it looks to me like Aspergers...
Read full commentPosted in Head-Crash
I've been a bit rough lately and haven't followed ABC for a week
Posted on Fri, 09 Feb 2018
This morning I found this gem. This is so visual to me. I see everything in black and white, not because it's like an old movie or an early Ken Loach play of the week, but because it tells a story, or should that be the story, of mining...
Read full commentPosted in Some Seam Shared
Well said Ewan
Posted on Tue, 15 Jul 2025
Sometimes I think I must be the only person in the World that has never looked at Facebook:twitterX:ticktok:instagram. I can manage without all that tonto shite. (so far)
I was a member of a writing (now defunked) site so badly managed...
Read full commentPosted in 3 oz of Insanity
Very thought provoking read
Posted on Thu, 12 Jun 2025
I get the idea that twins are connected from the moment the cell divided after it was concieved. I was not a twin and my brother was born fourteen years after me, but I still feel a special sense of connection despite growing up separately. It's...
Read full commentPosted in The Vale - Part One (b)
Wow!
Posted on Wed, 11 Jun 2025
That would make a brilliant story for this IP golden cherries for you
Read full commentPosted in What You Don't Know Don't . . . .
Well said, I couldn't agree more
Posted on Wed, 11 Jun 2025
1984 should be on every school's curriculum and installed in every new smartphone °° IMO
great poem
Read full commentPosted in Nineteen Eighty Four
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