Frances Macaulay Forde
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I have 69 stories published in
11 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 73875 times
and 20 of my stories have been cherry picked.
20 of my 316 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 20 votes
Sue Coughlan
lives on the Sunset Coast of Australia and writes for page, stage and screen.
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My Knight
In 2002, the man I loved 28 years before in Africa, found my name on the net. After running away to Oz, two beautiful children, a bitter divorce and...
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I Need You
I've got your gentle voice in my head I am finely tuned to you still all my senses hungry - insatiable starving for your loving words more of your...
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'Epitaph for Gregory O'Donoghue'
When I posted this poem on another site, I was asked for some background. My answers to their questions provided a somewhat lengthy introduction -...
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Turning The Page
You were focussed on study so I waited peeking through the crack watched you turn a page rushed to kiss you quick. I twirled to leave let you get...
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The Boffin
bookshops are like lovers they numb in black & white then seduce you with colour titillate and tempt your soul until you finally let go find the...
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Next year...
Posted on Fri, 26 Aug 2022
We explored the possibilities in Ireland for 14 months, came home and got married. Next year we will celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary, Di_Hard. Thanks for reading. :-)
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Congratulations!
Posted on Sun, 24 Apr 2022
Congratulations, Jennifer.
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Photograph
Posted on Wed, 20 Apr 2022
...and I loved your words which take us on a seeminly visual journey but in fact are a study in your tactile personality. This work perfectly wrapped up in feelings, like your previous 'Cages' perfectly wrapped up with the scent of smoke. Both...
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I agree
Posted on Sat, 16 Apr 2022
I agree - wonderful words! Congratulations on the well-deserved cherries too.
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Easy.
Posted on Mon, 03 Jan 2022
There's such an ease in your writing. You make it look easy when I know it's not. You cleverly wind your words into stories and reel us in. :-)
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So much information.
Posted on Sun, 17 Feb 2019
Wow - thank you for the mention of Clan MacAulay. I am in the process of tracing my family tree so this gives me (very possibly) another ancient branch.
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Congratulations!
Posted on Tue, 22 Mar 2022
Congratulations on the cherries!
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Full of 'feels'
Posted on Tue, 08 Mar 2022
Thank you Jennifer, this is a wonderfully expressed experience, shared with us all. Even the sense of freedom from the last line. My kind of poetry: many-layered, eliciting an instant but also measured response. Congratulations on the cherries...
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Salient
Posted on Tue, 15 Mar 2022
A salient piece, Marandina. Congratulations on the cherries. Wishing all safe passage to peace.
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The Easy Option...
Posted on Sun, 06 Mar 2022
...is not always 'easy'. Your clever words made me smile, Luigi. Thank you and congratulations.
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