Jane Hyphen

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I have 397 stories published in 3 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 887174 times and 507 of my stories have been cherry picked.
516 of my 2,777 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 545 votes

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Gold cherry

Familiar Faces

She hadn’t lived there for very long, just over a year and it was all so different to what she’d known. It was a new beginning. A glistening...
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Cherry

Parcel for you - Part 55

‘You have to give him his freedom, Mum, so he can develop as a sentient being. I really think we, as a family, are pioneers of this new technology...
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Gold cherry

Parcel for you - Part 54

‘Put him on his charger for a bit then, he looks tired.’ ‘He cannot look tired, that isn’t possible, his face never changes. He’s fine Vanessa. I...
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Cherry

Nicola's Privilege

Her parents were rich enough to send her to any school but keen to peddle an image of themselves as normal, down to earth folk, they decided that the...
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Cherry

Parcel for you - Part 53

‘Okay Mum. I’ll sort it in a minute.’ ‘And some bus fare for these two. I had to pay for them, two pounds thirty each, cobble together the change.’ ‘...
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516 of my comments have received 545 Great Feedback votes

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Thank you Drew for you

Posted on Fri, 04 Jul 2025

Thank you Drew for you attention to detail.  You're right he would have noticed the food smell. I will go through it again. I appreciate your feedback.

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Posted in The Vale - Part 1 (c)

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Thank you Di, he feels like

Posted on Fri, 04 Jul 2025

Thank you Di, he feels like an imposter in his life. Lots of elements together, good to know it still made sense to you, the reader.

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Posted in The Vale - Part 1 (c)

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Thank you, Di and thanks for

Posted on Fri, 27 Jun 2025

Thank you, Di and thanks for the cherries. Grief is different with an animal, it's more instantly accessible and I think it taps into unresolved grief from the past. 

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Posted in This Sad Blister

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There are so many details

Posted on Tue, 24 Jun 2025

There are so many details here, a clear picture building and so atmospheric as others have said. That lonely feeling you experience as a child when you're scared but you know your parents will dismiss your fears. And the woods - I could feel the...

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Posted in Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (1)

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I like how, instead of

Posted on Tue, 17 Jun 2025

I like how, instead of feeling sad and mourning the loss of physical strength, you have simply transferred your time to something else, equally pleasurable and creative. A garden can be enjoyed simply by passively being in it or even seeing it...

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Posted in When Time Has Elapsed

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This put a smile on my face,

Posted on Wed, 11 Jun 2025

This put a smile on my face, despite the hardships and annoyances you seem to be enduring. I enjoyed the poem and the animal details alongside local highlights. We also have a few vacuum cleaners, I won't say how many, some are very old but I...

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Posted in Aura Urziceanu’s Lullaby Effect

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Such a perfectly adapted

Posted on Thu, 12 Jun 2025

Such a perfectly adapted creature, fascinating. The perfection of our natural world makes you wonder about lots of things.

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Posted in Designed to catch water

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I love this. A hard working

Posted on Sat, 07 Jun 2025

I love this. A hard working capable employee. Your brain requires a different sort of discipline to cope with mundane tasks and do them well, day after day. It's sort of meditation. Remy growing his hair is sort of iconic, he keeps the rest of...

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Posted in Who do people say I am?

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Thank you, Insert. This is

Posted on Fri, 06 Jun 2025

Thank you, Insert. This is something I started a few years back and I just unearthed it. Chapter 1 is really sweary...

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Posted in The Vale - Part Two

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Agree with you, UK self

Posted on Fri, 06 Jun 2025

Agree with you, UK self-checkouts often have all the staff who formerly manned the now redundant tills standing around like the gestapo watching you so you don't nick anything. The worst thing is when they emit that dull impatient bleep because...

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Posted in Rools is Rools

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