Frances Macaulay Forde

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I have 87 stories published in 11 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 120244 times and 26 of my stories have been cherry picked.
33 of my 418 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 33 votes

My stories

Wardrobe Mistress

I stood in front of the wardrobe we shared and stared and stared. I had just seen her with overalls down below her knees, your familiar bare bum...
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Write to Romance

Jessica drove furiously through familiar back streets - happy that she'd didn't have to travel to Cottesloe; being late for meetings at Tom Collins...
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Road Ribbons to Forever

still cold the orb lay low quick glimpse then hidden motor climbing to drown crow’s haunting early wake-up call blades of light chop dust and dirt...
Cherry

Sketching

I sat myself down on a low stone wall, a semi-circle that splits St Mary’s Road in two. I'm just visiting Midleton, you understand... But I fancied a...
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Never

What can you say when a dear friend passes away? That they were good and kind and loved my many? That they were respected and stood by their beliefs...
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33 of my comments have received 33 Great Feedback votes

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Look up.

Posted on Sun, 27 Apr 2025

This resonated very well with me - both the idea and the Spitfire.  However, I must confess to being most impressed by the Lancaster - that throbbing of engines as the large shadow engulfs those below...  That sound reminds me of watching...

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Posted in Don't look up

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Such an enveloping read.

Posted on Sat, 17 May 2025

Your narrative style appears so easy, so clean and clear but hard to do well.  And you have done this well. Your experience evident in every paragraph.  I so enjoyed your words and look forward to 'inhabiting' more of your life, Harry.  Thank you...

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Posted in The Rest of My Life: First Day...

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A scary memory.

Posted on Fri, 25 Apr 2025

A terrifyingly instinctive moment captured so well, as many have already said.  Obviously your writing has impact, demonstrated by so many interesting comments.  Congratulations on the cherries too.  You've inspired me to write of a similar...

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Posted in More Than We Bargained For

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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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Posted in My Knight

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Congratulations!

Posted on Sun, 24 Apr 2022

Congratulations, Jennifer.

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Posted in Fly Like An Eagle

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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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Posted in Photograph

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Cages

Posted on Wed, 20 Apr 2022

Such an interesting introspective of light and shade, good and evil, hot and cold, the threat of war, home as a prison, past and present, possessions which define us... I loved it.

Well-deserved cherries too - congratulations!

I...

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Posted in Cages

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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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Posted in Kernow Song

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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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Posted in Three Women at the Estuary

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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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Posted in Descent from Kings - The Royal Clans

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