Ed Crane
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I have 291 stories published in
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My stories have been read 511164 times
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232 of my 2,142 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 244 votes
My stories
Dreaming of a Grey Christmas
Despite my apartment having a four-metre wide window facing south I’m still struggling to see the letters on the keyboard. It feels like it’s been...
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Black and White Survival.
Part of the view from my lounge window
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Invisible
Image from commons.wikimedia: Invisibility
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All That Glitters
I posted this on ABC in July 2014. It make me so sad to have to post it again. Nothing's changed except the TV is now 4K
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Hi Ewan
Posted on Tue, 04 Aug 2020
I'm glad you like this and thank you very much appreciate the golden cherries, which I never expected.
Regarding night-lite, I got to thinking nite-lite was under copyright, but it seems many companies use this term, so I will change the...
Read full commentPosted in Box Room
A very lovely and informative poem
Posted on Sat, 01 Aug 2020
I really admire the way you subtley demonise the arrogance of imperialism and colonialism. It reminded me of the twinge of shame I felt the first time I saw The Gateway to India monument in Mumbai.
However, I think the outstanding gem of...
Read full commentPosted in To my imaginary child
Thanks Penny
Posted on Fri, 31 Jul 2020
Yes they were good times (mostly) in Las Palmas. Not the prettiest city but a great place all the same (cockroaches and all). the island of Grand Canaria is very interesting, However, after the move to Lanzarote and visiting some of the other...
Read full commentPosted in Cherry Dreamin'
You do Vultures proud with this brilliant poem, Rachel
Posted on Fri, 31 Jul 2020
They are magnificent birds and they provide a real service for all animals on Earth including us. We revile them for seaching out and eating dead and rotting flesh, but forget the amount of diseases they prevent by cleaning discarded carcasses....
Read full commentPosted in The Diplomacy of Vultures
Don't tell me they are asking questions about thermodynamics
Posted on Thu, 11 Jun 2020
(Lays down in a darkened room)
Read full commentPosted in Petra Ichor's oil slick
I can't tolerate intolerance!
Posted on Sun, 14 Jun 2020
When a group of perfectly normal people are sytematically treated as different outsiders you have to expect a reaction because perfectly normal people will always feel the need to protect themselves and each other.Those reactions -- even extreme...
Read full commentPosted in Outsiders, and the clubhouse door
Morning Nicky
Posted on Sat, 13 Jun 2020
I always have to smile when I see our resident magpies belittling the neighbour's mog.
She doesn't stand a chance, those yobbish birds are too clever for her.
Glad you liked my strepped dolphin. Thanks for reading about my mobsters...
Read full commentPosted in The Pied Sniper
I like the sound of cicadas as long as I'm not too near one.
Posted on Sat, 13 Jun 2020
Clever the way you have paralled our lives with that of cicadas, luckily we don't have to spend 17 years underground like some of them do, but as you say, in a way we do bury ourselves in our lives and work for years and sometimes things happen...
Read full commentPosted in The Loneliness of a Cicada
Very clever poem Ewan
Posted on Mon, 08 Jun 2020
It is surprising and comforting in the way nature so quickly re-takes it's space. Reading this reminded me of the time not so long ago when Eyjafjallajökull erupted and we had aircraft free skies for a few days. I recall sitting in the garden and...
Read full commentPosted in Now the Cars Are Moving.
Like Claudine I found this very interesting.
Posted on Sun, 07 Jun 2020
I didn't read much science fiction although I know I should read more.
One writer that sticks out for me is Ursula Le Guin. Sure she is so-call white, but I believe she frequently used dark-skinned 'heros' in her books and very definitely...
Read full commentPosted in Afrofuturism - Speculative Fiction. A re-imagining of self.
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