Ed Crane
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I have 285 stories published in
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My stories have been read 445006 times
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222 of my 2,112 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 232 votes
My stories
A story by Albert Ross
Change of name and image (Image by Andrew Shiva from wiki commons)
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hiding in plain site
it is what it is
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11.37 January 15, ’25.
The radiator clicks reassuringly filling the room with blanket warmth. The dog snores on the couch. Outside the mist thickens around trees now faded...
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Phoenix 2030 (a dream)
Interpret this however you want.
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They Seem To Be Alive (re-write)
Beasts of burden stand patient murmering from internal functions. Body heat warming passing admirers. ‘Of course they’re alive,’ engineers and...
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Thanks Di
Posted on Thu, 01 Feb 2024
I am going to make a small change to the final line so it is clear the narrator is not interested in the old ladie's money. I re-read it and it seemed to look that way.
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Thanks Turlough
Posted on Mon, 15 Jan 2024
Everything seems grey these days. So many houses finished in mono colours I find it depressing. Chic doesn't have to be black and white.
Thanks for popping in.
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How about the Crate of Tigenello? (or Cummins revenge :)
Posted on Wed, 27 Dec 2023
Dare we go down to the cellar of Number 10 in 2074?
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congrats on the golden cherries
Posted on Sat, 02 Dec 2023
My dog loves digging her nose into piles of frozen leaves and the crunch they make as we walk through them.
Snow predicted here today, but it won't stay very long I think.
very atmospheric piece Rhia.
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When murders fight murders nobody wins.
Posted on Thu, 30 Nov 2023
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Di, I was doing some research hoping to write a poem about wars
Posted on Sun, 29 Oct 2023
since I was born. I checked on wiki for a list of wars around the world since the end of WW2
There are literally HUNDREDS!!! (and that only from 1945 -1989)
I gave up on the poem and I give up on humanity.
Shame doesn't even...
Read full commentPosted in October 2023
Forethought isn't a human strong point I guess
Posted on Fri, 27 Oct 2023
we have no back door to escape to when the climate finally goes pear shaped.
With the middle east situation I keep thinking about the line in the 1976 Genesis song: "Blood OnThe Rooftops."
(Arabs and the Jews, Boy -- too much...
Read full commentPosted in All That Glitters
Antonio Guterres spoke the truth
Posted on Wed, 25 Oct 2023
He should be applauded not criticised by the west and bullied by Israel.
The US in particular should face up to this truth and only supply the Israelli government with weapons in return for serious diplomacy. There has to be a balance.
Read full commentPosted in Creeping colonization and takeover : Revenge and Retribution, by Alfred N.Muggins (rogue reporter)
This is a great piece, well deserving POTD
Posted on Mon, 04 Sep 2023
Very interesting could well be a true story. The two line stanzas are a good idea for getting this across. If God looked like John Wayne I hope his politics are different
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I wonder who the father is
Posted on Thu, 07 Sep 2023
I can vaguely remember the girl in the E type I think at the start of the show.
I always had the feeling the Max Miller-esque joke about very short mini-skirts being two onches below sea-level helped is his demise
neve figured...
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